Heart time again!!!

Yes that's right folks, me who never needs an excuse to make a bunch of hearts!!! Good old Valentines Day...Don't you just hate when this happens whilst free machining. I do !! The only remedy for it is to snip the couched yarn. At least with free machining it's easy enough to anchor it back down without it really being noticed. Not so bad when it happens at the edge of the fabric like this one, it probably missed the heart shape and ended up on the waste pile!

I like the combination of the sheer fabrics with the fancy yarns that you can get nowadays.

I particularly like the colour combination on these ones. Must remember it and try it again sometime. I've been starting to add little amounts of different types of fabric in these not sure if you can see the little piece of blue diamond patterned fabric peeping out on the one above.

Some of these fabrics really fray quite a lot. I like this type of edge so that's ok.

That was definitely not taken on a yellow background and I think these hearts were in the pinky red range rather than the orangy red. Of course that might just be the inspiration for the next piece of fabric I make...

Anyway, these are some of the hearts cut out from the "made" fabric. Don't know if you can see it but I tried machining little hearts as I went along. Of course it ended up being an after thought so there wasn't a lot of room left for them otherwise they might have been covered in them!
This batch of hearts have had a little zigzag added to their edges. I liked the touch of green on these ones.I have made about three different batches so far. I only get about eight at the most out of the pieces of fabric. I think that I prefer to work on smaller pieces of fabric, it keeps them more interesting.

Fiddling about with buttons (I love buttons :o)) The one at bottom right was just a bit on the big size but I was just throwing my bundle of red buttons around to see what went where, if at all!

I decided to do some black and white cards as I know these colours are very popular at the moment. I added a pearly button althugh I think that they were more like a shell button rather than mother of pearl. They were a bit old and tired bit I thought they went ok.

I thought that they could be used as wedding cards as well. If they sell well I can see me trying a whole load of them all in different colourways.

Here I go again, any excuse for making a bunch of hearts

Happy Valentines Day when it comes... :o)

Happy New Year...

...jingle bells...

The 10th already, how time flies! Thought that I'd upload a few images of what's been going on. The one above was a mistake must have taken a note of the wrong photo number! Great start!! Interesting all the same...

A winters walk...

...oops! another wrong one!! My sister, on holiday from OZ, was intrigued by the fungii on this tree. On closer inspection I had to inform her that we really had some quite unusual trees here in Scotland, this one was the tree of mini pitta breads!!!......................... Ha Ha!!

These uploads are taking ages so I'll go for now and come back later when I have more time... I might get the right photos next time!!

:o)

Byeeee!

just noticed that this is post 60...

...then I forgot what I was doing and published the heading on its own. Obviously lost the plot! Anyway here I am with what I'd intended to show in the first place.
Some more pieces of fabric making for some Christmas hearts (surprise surprise!)

...just some more of the usual, bonding , foiling, couching and free machine embroidery. Nothing new then!!

some pieces of fancy yarns and sheers...

... then of course, the extreme close up!! Maybe should have turned the picture round!

... you can see a bit of the indented shapes made by the free machining on this one. I mainly scribble with the needle when working on my machine. I don't set out with a particular pattern in mind, it just evolves. Sometimes it is influenced by what I've added to it and I allow it to grow from there.

Oh! Yes, here are a few of this years angels, pretty similar to last years I have to say.

That's it then, here's to the next 60!!! :o)

Byeee!!!!

:o)

unsure...

... found these photos. I have this piece hanging around. Could probably call it WIP , yes think I will as I really don't think it's finished. I'm at a bit of a dead end with it. Really should have it pinned up on the wall to inspire me but haven't got that far...

I quite like parts of it but as there is no artwork to go with it (naughty, naughty!) I'm not sure which direction to take with it.

...mmmm, think that last one looked like it had a heart in it, can't imagine where that could have come from!!!

Anyway here it is in its unfinished state, or maybe I should just call it finished!!

...mmm...maybe, not!

Think I'll pin it up!!

byee!

Amazing!...

...it's not every day that you open a can of tropical fruit salad and find these...

...staring up at you!! The moment couldn't pass without a quick dash for the camera. This fruit was definitely for sharing!!
...there's another one!!

I just couldn't eat them!! Well not today anyway, maybe tomorrow!! :o(

Byee! :o)

Hi :o) !

I really should be doing some work but thought I'd take a little time out to post a few more photos. This is my next batch of little heart brooches destined for Funky Scottish. We've gone on to winter hours for those that may be in the Pittenweem area, Thurs, Frid, Sat 11am to 4pm. Anyway, I'm still working up to putting something in my etsy shop as well, maybe soon and maybe these!!They are all worked in the same way, make a large piece of fabric by bonding and machine couching fancy yarns in place and cutting them out. That's the fun bit trying to fit as many as possible out of the piece!

Then they need a machine satin stitch edge and a brooch back to finish them off.

I really enjoy making them, they're great fun! :o)

The bigger the heap the better! I've done a batch in a different colour way but as they are still WIP I've not taken any photos of them. I'll get to them soon, I hope!!

Then in amongst all this busy, busy I take time out which I really shouldn't and end up doing a crazy play!! The photo above and below show the result.

Mmmm...Why?... Well, just because...Don't you have "just because" moments?!!

Anyway, that's all for now, see you on flickr!!

Byee :o)

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It's been a while!!

Found a few photos that I'd forgotten to show. These are still from my seashore series. They may go on for quite some time!

...little fly stitches, a change from all the straight stitched and French knot flowers. Although I still use these stiches a lot as you can see.

...a mixture of sheers, wool fibres and machine embroidery...

...I quite liked the different colours on this one. Especially the strong red and turquoise.
The sandy beach at the top is actually my table!!

Sorry about the quality of some of the pictures, I seem to have developed a wobbly hand these days!

There you go, a few to be going on with. Will try to get some more things together soon to share.

Bye for now

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