Rainy Days and Mondays

After the candy- coated, ground rocking, earthquake Easter Sunday,

the clouds rolled in

and it grew dark

and it rained all night and morning

during our walk.

(my son took this)

I stayed up last night listening to the rain, eating chocolate bunnies and

finished my rain-cloud wall pillow.

I'd been embroidering it for some time now.

I'm really happy with how it turned out

and so is someone else I know.

Sweet Escape!

sweet escape! tea towel

tea party with C

Amy Perotti just created her very first embroidery pattern. I got a pdf file of it from her shop which included a full color pattern and black and white copy(that I printed in mirror image). Then I traced it with a transfer pencil and ironed it onto a kitchen towel.

Since Amy doesn't give instructions on how each detail should be stitched, I felt free to experiment using some stem stitching, back stitching and my very own wonky stitching.

There's something about freestyle stitching that turns a straight pattern into a more organic form and breathes some soul into it.

I am very proud of how this kitchen tea towel turned out.

Click on the top image to take a closer look!