A Beginners Guide

Hi fellow crafter's, I hope you're all having fun :)

Thank you for your lovely comments on my previous post, they are always appreciated.

Now that I have finished my first practise project of silk ribbon embroidery I thought it was time to invest in some books :)

You can never have enough books to hand!

This one by Ann Cox is a great place to start for beginners, it's packed with information and Techniques.

The second one I bought is this one and my favourite,

it has all the information you will ever need to master this beautiful craft and the author is self taught!

A true inspiration!

I'm so looking forward to doing this new craft and learning all the skills from these wonderful Artists!

Happy Stitching :)

Peacock Finish-silk ribbon embroidery

Hi all and a warm welcome to even more newcomers :) its lovely to see all the different blogs and interests, hope you all enjoyed blog hopping as much as I did :)

Well, onto the peacock and he's done! it was a very enjoyable if some what frustrating experience, not the silk ribbon embroidery but the fact I ran out of the green silk just at the end for the leaves!!

Ohhhh NO not after all that hard work! so I had to improvise :))

I had a bit of blue silk ribbon left over so I made a smaller blue flower to put over the 4 leaves that would have been unfinished!

apart from running out of ribbon at the end I found it a wonderful experience and will be pursuing this art as one of my many crafts, my list grows longer every year!!

LOL

next on the list to do is take this to my framer for framing and buy some silk ribbons ready for my next Silk Ribbon Adventure :))

Thank you for reading

and

Happy Stitching:)

Silk Ribbon Peacock Update

A Very Very Warm Welcome Newcomers to my blog, its lovely to see you here,

I hope you all had a great weekend and are enjoying the blog hopping party,

A very big thank you to Vicki and all her helpers for doing such a great job in organising it all.

just a quick post to say my Peacock is almost finished, just a few more leaves to go and its done,

I've enjoyed doing this very much and will post about my experience of it on the final post.

have a wonderful day everyone and thank you for reading

Happy Stitching :)

Pooh And Friends update

Hi every one, hope you're all having a lovely stitchy weekend :)

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my peacock.

Here is an update on winnie the pooh latch hook

This rug is pretty big 20in by 28in

don't know what that is in cm..I'm old school hahaha

as you can see I'm working right to left, if you're fully left handed you would work left to right,

I also prefer to work vertically rather than horizontal but that's a matter of choice, as long as you work left or right depending on what hand you favour you will be comfortable with your work.

The other thing I do is separate all the wool before I start.

when you get a kit it comes like this 

with all the wool mixed together, this one is from the teddy cushion and there are about 12 of these!

I don't know why they do this, but, anyway, I spend time separating all the colors and put them into sandwich bags, like this

Winnie the pooh wool in sandwhich bags

it makes it so much easier than trying to separate those wool sushi things as you go

lol

Happy Stitching
:))

Peacock Update

Thank you ALL for your lovely comments on my baby Afghan finish :) I appreciate every one of them.

I've been doing some work on my silk ribbon peacock and this is it so far,

I've re done the eye and he looks sober now LOL

I'm also working on my winnie the pooh rug at the same time so an update on that soon.

Look at this cute cushion kit I got for Christmas :)

my stash drawer is overflowing

lol

:)

Happy Stitching :)