Scandinavian embroidery

I haven't been posting much recently, except about Tag Tuesday, but I haven't been idle!

I have been wanting to do some hand embroidery from Clare Youngs' scandinavian needlecraft book for a while now, and decided the best way to do it was to just  start something! The coat hanger cover was simple but satisfying to do, so I followed it with a cushion cover. I love the freshness of gingham, but must be careful not to go onto overload with it! There are lots more projects in this book, so watch this space ....

Tag Tuesday-Baking

Baking   is the theme for this week's Tag Tuesday

For my tag I wanted to make a cupcake, not bake one, make one, so I did!

For the cake I used cream felt , for the icing I stitched on lining fabric, and decorated with beads. The paper case was made from corrugated card , and I added in some felt pen to make it more stylish.  The backing is felt, which is brilliant to stitch layers into.

I took the photo with an old cookery book for background.

Tag Tuesday-Sewing

Sewing is the theme for Tag Tuesday this week.

I have been rather busy this week, so made a quick tag this time.

I used this lovely button fabric from my stash for the background. It was a pleasure to use it!

The image of the sewing machine is from Graphics Fairy , and I printed it onto cotton print on fabric from Crafty computer paper. Then I hand-stitched round the outline of the sewing machine. Buttons were added as further embellishment . To finish off I used some fabric tape from my sewing box-no idea what it is for, fastened together with a press stud. The whole tag was backed onto felt, which gives a solid background, but is so easy to sew!

Tag Tuesday-Purple

My tag for this week's Tag Tuesday is a confection in  purple to go with the Purple theme.

I raided my stash and, using felt as the backing, stitched on some silk waste, ribbons and machine stitched voile left from another project. This was stuck onto a cardboard strip which had held lavender sachets, and and still had the adhesive on, which I could use again.

Coincidentally, the pastel garden I have been working on in my art class this week has a lot of purple flowers so I photographed the tag on top of it.

Blog header

If you have visited my blog before you will notice I have  just changed the Blog header. This lovely image is from The Graphics Fairy. I hope you like it! Your comments are always welcome if you visit the blog.

Tag Tuesday-Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers is the theme for this weeks Tag Tuesday . I started thinking of the beautiful colours of spring flowers, daffodils, tulips, irises and crocuses. However when I went up to my studio to find my tulip stamps, I got diverted by a pack of flowers for collage. I found some green card for background, made marks with pastels and wax crayons, and before I knew it I had finished my tag! It wasn't at all what I had in mind, but I like it.

Clouds

I found these fabulous clouds on a spring walk. English weather always keeps you on your toes, you never know what to expect. I waited for the rain to stop before I went out, and had a pleasant walk in the mild sunny afternoon. However when I got home we had a thunder storm, followed by a massive hail storm, with huge hailstones which covered the ground in white. This was followed by heavy rain, which wiped away all traces of the hail! I am 

pleased that my timing was so good and that I escaped all these extremes of weather!