Red Door Rapper

Red Door Rapper are a fab new Rapper group (the dancing kind of Rapper, confusing I know, but they have a Facebook page and a few videos on Youtube that you can have a look at if you're unfamiliar with the dance kind of Rapper) started by my good friend Emma who will sadly be leaving to go to Uni at Cambridge! So I've made her a little leaving present to take with her and so she doesn't forget us :)

There's even a little red door as well!



Final Piece Numero Deux

Finally finished my second final piece for my embroidery collection! Tra laa!

And, since I actually quite like this one, I've got some close ups of my fave bits for you...

Hope you like it too :)

Applique and whatnots :)

We've been doing some applique which was quite fun but also quite stressful when we were doing reverse and shadow applique and I had to cut stuff away, aaah! I was so worried that I was going to cut through my stitching when I was doing that.

The first pic is normal applique and reverse applique, and the second pic is shadow applique. I really liked that one cos I used a sparkly silver thread and it looks all Christmassy! It doesn't really look it in the pic but it makes me smile :)

We also had a play with dyes. The top row are calico samples that I dyed and the bottom are silks that I dyed. Believe it or not but the corresponding samples have actually been dyed the same colours...

And, I found a nice new stitch - the cloud stitch, oooh...