This week...

I've been doing a little crafting. Working on this hexagon blanket I started last Spring, added in 2 new colors: navy blue and red.

 Working on another "Scandistitch" design. You can find my other finished ones here and here. I seem to have a little obsession with navy blue right now. Love it!

Taking down Christmas decorations. I'm usually sad afterwards, but I really am loving the clean simple look of my home now.

Puppy Embroidery Pillow

The stitching bug bit me the other day when I came across the cutest little vintage embroidery pattern. Not knowing what I would do with it I started stitching. It took me a couple hours and a few mistakes, but I finished it, then decided it needed something extra so I added a cute border.

I went back and forth between deciding whether it should be a pillow or a wall hanging. I finally decided on pillow after seeing it with pam kitty fabric. They were meant to be!

My mom over at Happy Little Cottage worked her sewing magic and made it into the cutest patchwork pillow.

I love it! It's happily sitting on my bed, the little dog reminds me of Sophie :)

Embroidered Bunting

This is one of those projects I finished awhile ago but neglected to blog it. Which is madness because I am crazy in love with it!

The patterned fabric came from Charlotte Lyon's etsy shop. She is amazingly talented and her designs are the cutest! The fabric comes printed with the design so all you have to do is stitch, cut, and sew! How awesome is that?!

I used perle cotton and a lot of filler stitches so that the embroidery would not get lost.

 

This little banner probably gets moved around twice a week as I adore it and love moving it in different spots so that I can enjoy it everywhere.

FO: Scandistitches Design #2

We've been having amazing weather here in Cleveland and it has put me in a finishing mood. I have been completing so many half done projects it makes me so happy.

Here is another finished scandistitches embroidery. This was so fast to stitch up that I didn't even have time to take in progress photos.

It is stitched on light pink gingham fabric with bright red perle cotton. The gingham was a little tricky to frame because it is so thin, but I do love the look oh so much!

I hope you all are enjoying the beginnings of summer and finishing up projects or starting exciting new ones!

FO: Scandistitches Design #1

A while back ago I fell head over heels in love with this little embroidery shop on etsy. All of her patterns are just so beautiful and simple. Most of them only require backstitches.

This set has to be my all time favorite ever. All of the patterns are based on scandanavian designs. I knew that they would go perfectly with my ikea swedish bedroom, so I started a mission to stitch them all up and hang them in cute cluster on my wall next to the bookshelf.

So here is the first design. I completely copied September House's colors on this one. I used dmc perle cotton on plain red cotton fabric.

I'm happily stitching up the next design and will have a little sneak peak up soon. Let's just say that it involves pink gingham. Yum!

Handmade Dala Horse

I have recently fallen in love with Dala horses. I love anything Swedish actually. So when I saw this pattern I knew I had to whip one up.

 It took me only a few hours to sew it up. You can find the FREE pattern here. I am over the moon excited by this little horsey. It is currently hanging on the window over the sink. I am planning on making another one in undtraditional pastel colors.

This is a super inexpensive project. I just used red acrylic felt from the craft store, a needle, baker's twine (you can use any kind of ribbon or string you have), poly fill, and DMC embroidery thread in 321, 973, 798, and B5200. I used 3 strands for the embroidery.

It would be so cute to make a slew of these for a Christmas tree!