Oh, how I love traveling... visiting new places, meeting people from different countries, getting acquainted, even if only briefly, with their culture...
Unfortunately we don't get to travel as much as we wish, even though our wishes are not (always) unrealistic. So, I travel virtually, wherever my embroideries might take me, by keeping track of where they "fly". One of my eyeglass cases, for instance, flew to New Zealand,  a place I can only dream of ever visiting, so I spent  days at that time admiring photos of New Zealand. And that is what I do every time an item leaves my studio, taking a piece of my heart wherever it goes. I have "visited" quite a few places this way and I feel so very lucky to have been able to do so.

My next virtual travel takes me to a place that is "within my reach" and hope to really visit it in a couple of years: Paris...

A pocket mirror and a pendant are taking me there:





I hope Paris will like them, too :)

Wishing you all a wonderful day,

It all started at the very beginning of my pendant making madness, when I made a monogram pendant for my very special friend, Lee Albrecht. At the time I created patterns for the whole alphabet, but then moved on to other designs and forgot all about the letters.

Then an acquaintance of  Lee's saw her pendant and ordered a similar one, so another L pendant was created.


While working on it, I thought I might as well make some more and wondering which letter I should start with, I remembered that my father asked me the other day if I have ever made a pendant for myself. Well, I haven't... Correction: now I have :)


And after my A was done, it seemed only natural to embroider an M as a Mother's Day present for my Mother whose initials are MM-M.


I really, really hope that she will like it enough to wear it, too.

Have a wonderful week, Everyone!

Just roses, more roses than words...








Happy Sunday, dear Friends!

(Robin McKinley, Sunshine)

... I mean in the pocket. Or purse, if you prefer.


 I would much rather have it on my dresser if I were to keep it, but I am not. So, wrapped in silk paper, into a pretty box it goes...


Still, I am not tying the ribbons on the box just yet as I like it so much, I want to be able to look at it again before it flies away :)

Hugs,

Although the sun was not as generous today as it was yesterday, and the coming and going of clouds and rain brought on the usual headache, I am happy to report that the eyeglass case that completes the set of three blues is finished.


To celebrate (and also because another eyeglass case I am working on needed some blocking before I could sew it up) I treated myself to stitching on a pocket mirror.






Thank you for visiting!

Wishing you all the best,

I am not sure how the sun felt about seeing my face today, but I sure was happy to see the sun shine again. Even my needles worked faster, so I managed to finish two pouches of the blu set.

The change purse:



And the phone pouch:


The eyeglass case is all embellished, too, just needs to be sewn up. But that's tomorrow's story...

Wishing you all a beautiful week,

I feel that something is still missing and I can't put my finger on it, so I ended up leaving the lady in the green hat to stretch / block over night.




Wishing you all a happy weekend,

It is still cold and the sun is playing hide and seek a lot, but the calendar says it's time, so, dear Spring, whenever you are ready, I am here!

For the last week, while waiting for spring to come, I have been busy creating pendants for "Martisor", a lovely Romanian custom for the 1st of March. These are only a couple of them:





Now I can't wait for spring to finally do its magic!

Wishing everyone a happy weekend,

Now I would like to get back to my sheep what this blog of mine is really about, embroidery. And share with you the pendants I have been working on for the last few days.

Passionate reds, roses and tulips.



Sweet pastels:


Off to the studio now to get my needles humming again :)

Wishing everyone a happy day,

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week,