TAST - Week 4

This is the first time I make this stitch. I have to watch some videos before I figured out how to sew it and the design came out pretty nice especially the 'closed' Cretan stitch done on the hearts. I particularly liked the centre criss-cross! The open stitches were done randomly after seeing some samples of work by others.
It is clearly an experience in learning new stitches and using those that I've known to sew creatively! :)

TAST - Week 3

I decided to do a free-form stitching for this week's Feather Stitch. It is still ATC size stitched on cotton using a HDT by Zarina. I made a boo-boo - I wanted to wash away the water soluble blue ink and then realized that the colour of the thread had run after the put the piece under the tap! :( ......so please excuse the blotches on the piece!

YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2012

TAST - Week 2

Stitched on Aida #16.
Words & purple heart - DMC Perle #8
The buttonhole stitch is done using a hand-dyed thread (by the seaside) by Zarina.

New Challenge

I took up a new challenge ~ TAKE A STITCH TUESDAY 2012 this year....for the next 52 weeks I will be stitching the stitches posted here.

For the first week which began on 3rd January 2012, it was the FLY STITCH. I have never seriously used this stitch before in any of my craft/embroidery work, but when I started to work with it and looking at the other stitched samplers, I realized that it can be varied and the variations made interesting patterns!

Week 1 - Fly Stitch 2.5" x 3.5"

stitched on Aida #16 using DMC Perle #8
except for the dark green using 4 strands of floss.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

Red & Green

Lillie sent me this cute snowman with the cute card.

Lee Fun and I were discussing about some crafters giving the empty toilet paper roll holder a new lease of life and this is my version......

....the big tag is also recycled - a tag from some clothes I bought. I covered with a pretty candy wrapper and the smaller tag is a 'cheat' from some papers I got free from a magazine.

Enjoy!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

Paper Art

Below is a private ATC swap with a friend and her daughters:

.......and she even made a booklet so that I can store the cards. :)

MOOS....is basically a narrow card that is 1 inch x 3 inches. I participated in this exchange with a Yahoo group and the theme was Christmas as we were to swap the cards before mid-December! And since it was for Christmas, we were requested to add a string, ribbon or whatever that will enable us to hang it on our tree! :)

Wishing all a very joyous CHRISTMAS & peaceful NEW YEAR!