It's the middle of the summer here and the weather has been perfect for outdoor stitching.
July 30th was "World Embroidery Day" and I celebrated by putting some stitches into my new tea towel project. This is another fun pattern from Stitcher's Revolution.
There are 2 concerns with outdoor stitching:
2) Beware of outdoor wildlife - always look before you stick your hand in the floss box! I always do look first because bees love the bright colours of embroidery thread as much as we do. Luckily no stitcher was stung in taking this photograph!
I was so delighted to have some stitching time with my daughter this past week.
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| Mother and Daughter Embroidery Projects |
What are you hand stitching this week? We would love to see what you are creating with your own two hands. Link up your blog post below and share your slow progress with us.
**Sorry about the coding problem with Inlinkz this morning. It took me a bit of time to solve but I think I've fixed it now.
16 comments:
Kathy......I was unable to link up as there doesn't seem to be the link widget......just a lot of HTML gobbly gook. =) It is easy to make a mistake when stitching outdoors. I think your daughter's embroidery is lovely; hopefully she will enjoy the delights of embroidery soon. Glad you didn't get stung by the little bee.
It's frustrating when the weave of fabric is too tight for good embroidery. It's frustrating as an experienced embroiderer much less a beginner! Happy stitching!
The link up needs some tweaking, thanks!
Kathy, as Kim said, there is no link-up. I have tried many times to get my daughter interested in many of the crafts that I like to no avail. Your piece and your daughter's are very pretty.
These tea towel projects are great fun. I'm very lucy that my daughter is a crafter and we've managed to get my sons girlfriend into cross stitch and I'm in the process of hooking in a girlfriend! Shame your daughter isn't loving it......yet! Have a great day.
Great projcts for stitching outside, enjoying the nature.
Stitching outside is the best! Your daughter’s embroidery is lovely! She’s doing great! There are pesky insects here too...mosquitoes, deer flies, and wasps. Glad you saw the wasp before touching the thread!
Love the tea towels. I need to slot a couple of those into the "not counted thread" slot in my rotation at some point.
Link up is still odd - your html is broken.
Some day, she may come back to it and enjoy it. Putting the little seeds and knowledge out there are the first steps. Beautiful projects.
Kathy, the link up went perfect, everything is OK! Thanks for your talent! Hope the rest of your day is lots of happy stitching!
the link is working good now - thanks for your link up every week
Hi Kathy,
Really nice tea towel...your daughters piece is looking
good. Have a great day!
How lovely to have a stitching companion--and I don't mean the bee (which looks more like a hornet to me!). Love your tea towels.
You and your daughter are working on beautiful projects! I'm sure it is frustrating for her, but kudos to her for sticking it out! :)
How nice to be stitching with your daughter! Neither of my daughters are interested! Happy stitching!
I love stitching outside. That's where I did a few of my hexies, but then there's the wind blowing the little hexie cardboard pieces everywhere :-) Thanks for hosting - I wrote this post just to make it to your party! Take care.
I worked on embroidery on July 30th, but didn't know it was a special day till your post.
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