Art Break! - Unicorn Embroidery

This is just a quick one!

I started with a black horse outline.

A gold horn.

And a rainbow mane.

I finished it off with some silver stars.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

Art Break! - Seahorse Embroidery

*If you want to skip this one, I don't mind at all. This one mentions babies.

This piece is for R's baby!

I sketched it out in my art book,

then onto the material.

I went with yellow and orange as my main colours for this piece, bright and cheerful.

I almost left this as just the outline, so cute!
Filling it in.

I backed it with a circle of yellow felt, to hide the edges.

I made a little 'moz' patch for the back as a way of signing my work.

Then I trimmed it with aqua ribbon and attached it to the baby blanket.

Attach it to the blanket and done!

Verdict: R loved it! It was so lovely being able to make a one-of-a-kind piece for this lovely young family!

I also showed  it to my mother, who has seen a lot of my projects, and she really liked it! High praise!

Art Break! - Schnicks Embroidery

Last year, Schnicks (our lovely cat) passed away. 
As a little memorial piece, I decided to make an embroidery of her for Parental Unit 1.

I used light blue fabric with white dots for this piece and sketched out my design. It is Schnicks showing us her lovely striped fur on her back with white carnations (hence the blue fabric background, white fabric would not look as good here) and a purple native flower of Australia (which I cannot find the name of, sorry). These two flowers are some favourites of PU1.

I started with the carnations just because they are fun to do.

I used dark brown for Schnicks' stripes. I changed where I wanted the tail to go.

A dusty pink for the nose and ears.

Cream for the ears, chest, and mouth.

Taupe for the tail and some fur.

And various browns and oranges for the fur.

I originally did the eyes with green, but decided against it so they were redone closed.

A dusty green was used for the stalks.

And little, native, purple flowers added.

Done!

Verdict: PU1 and PU2 loved it!

Art Break! - 'Die Mad About It' Embroidery

This is a fun little piece I made for Miss Buttons :D 

For this I sketched it up in my art ideas book.

To start I drew up some guide lines for the lettering.

These were too narrow.

Better!

I made this template for what I want the text to look like (on PowerPoint, because I'm a computer wizard).

I started doing the letters really carefully, but I soon found I was avoiding doing it all together because I wanted it to be perfect.

No, let's start again. This time keeping it fun.

I put it in a bigger hoop (when my hoops finally arrived) and started the surrounding decorations.

My new 2B pencil to sketch things out.

I washed the pencil marks off and cut away excess fabric.

How I sew up the back.

I also used this teal felt to back it.

My little sewn signature.

Done!

Verdict: She loved it!