Wow, time sure does fly when you are having fun stitching with friends. Today was our first class stitching the Poinsettia Lady from Maggie. The original art to this piece is by Corrina Luyken. You can visit her site here. There are so many of these canvases I want to stitch. The charm of these […]
Archives for January 2012
I’m such a flirt
I love the flirty girl series. They started out as a group canvas of 60’s girls having fun. Then they morphed into inserts for leather goods, small squares and now these fun collages. It was hard to pick a favorite to stitch, but I settled on this one. I sent the canvas […]
I Mustache you a Question
Have you caught the latest trend? It’s all over the internet. Everything’s got a mustache on it. Check out etsy. 10,914 options from temporary tattoos, to mugs with staches, to tee shirts, to cookie cutters to baby binkies. Put a mustache on it and suddenly its hot. Not wanting to miss the next big thing, […]
Fashion Forward
I love handbags. I tend to collect them. Love the old Isabella Fiore bags with great patterns and photos. Love vintage lucite bags. Love the new Kate Spade bags. Color print and pop. So, I set to work creating a handbag I would carry. It needed to be big enough to be useful and fun […]
Truly Scrumptious!
Here we are, at the close of another Truly Scrumptious class project, Candyland Christmas Tree Farm by EyeCandy Needleart. I really did love stitching this piece and designing all kinds of fun and unexpected thread/stitch combinations to bring it to life. This week we had a few key elements to handle. The candy canes needed […]
What a Minx
According to the Urban Dictionary, a minx is “A cheeky, flirtatious, mischevious girl.” That pretty much sums up our Computer Pixie. She should be working but what’s she doing instead? Dreaming of island vacations with an umbrella drink in hand. Here’s our very own Computer Pixie Minx. Her painted canvas comes complete with stitchguide by […]
Kickin it with Brenda Hart
We had a great weekend with Brenda Hart! New friends were made. Old friends got together again. What fun. Brenda’s classes are typically embellishment classes. You pick the canvas and she picks the threads and stitches. No two classes are alike. The fun is the combination stitches she picks. Silks, with metallics; silks with beads; […]
