Getting a new haircut.

For most of my life I have had short hair, in a variety of colours, my natural black, red, purple, blue, green (that one was an accident) and more recently auburn with a smattering of grey. Recently I have been growing it and it is getting pretty long for me especially the fringe, which I usually keep short as I wear specs and tend to do a lot of fairly close work, so I have been making some bead embroidery hair clips.

Most of them have been kind of floral, dainty and sweet,

And then there was this one, which is my favourite, because I can now truthfully tell my son that I have eyes in the back of my head.

I am getting a new haircut tomorrow, I am hoping that I don't get too carried away and have it cut too short for clips.

Sarahx

One Lump or 5!

Wow, I can't believe how quickly this stitched up! I have been mainly beadweaving for the last 8 years and have got used to projects taking quite a long time so to have the embroidery finished in less than an evening was a revelation! My son enjoyed helping too, he is in his schools sewing club so he was quite used to doing back stitch although he found working with the dark fabric difficult, so I did the up stitches and he did the down.

(Pattern here http://wildolive.blogspot.com/2011/05/pattern-one-lump-or-2.html)

Next, I need to hide the back and fix the embroidery in the hoop, I'll be using Carina's great instructions http://carinascraftblog.wardi.dk/2010/06/embroidery-hoop-framing-tutorial.html

Sarahx

Sarahx

My Next Project - A Gift for My Sweet (Toothed) Mum

Next month is my mum's 60th birthday, I will be buying her something special to keep (we are a family of women who likes BIG earrings!) but I also want to make her a few little treats, there is nothing like having lot's of little gifts to open, is there? I don't think it really matters what is in them even, it is the excitement and surprise that makes them fun.

Mama is a coffee drinker and has a very sweet tooth, the joke is that she likes the spoon standing up and 5 sugars (she's not quite that bad), so when I saw Wild Olive's pattern featured on the Feeling Stitchy June Stitch Along, I knew it would be perfect! Feeling Stitchy is slowly but surely tempting me back to my embroidery roots and I am looking forward to joining in my 1st stitch along.



I will be changing the 2 to a 5 in honour of our family joke and I am planning to stitch the design on some denim upcycled from a pair of her beloved grandson's jeans. My son loves to get involved in my crafting so I will get him to stitch part of the design too, she will love it that much more!

Sarahx

Hello!

Hello!

Welcome to my new blog where I will be sharing my adventures in crafting, upcycling and anything else that captures my fancy!

I will be back soon with a proper post.

Sarahx