Modern Hand Embroidery: Boring Cushion Cover to Bling!

Bought some cheap and rather boring cushion covers from IKEA and I decided to jazz them up a bit. Here’s the first one: variegated pink thread, gold sari thread for the sequins and beads.

Modern Hand Embroidery: Purple Mandala

Hand drawn mandala sewn with variegated purple and light effects thread, beads and sequins.

Cross Stitch: Buddha in Blue

 Buddha in Blue with sequin bindi on 14ct Light Blue Aida 28cm x 55 cm

Cross Stitch for a Cause: Pink Heart for Breast Cancer

Pink Heart for Breast Cancer. Sewn with Arteza Pink Variation thread on pink 14 Count Sullivan Aida and with bead work. The hoop will be its frame.

Modern Hand Embroidery: How a Clown Would See the Sun

Hand drawn and sewn onto unbleached raw calico, using chain, satin and running stitches. Cottons used: Sashiko multicoloured, DMC light effects and varigated floss alongside of beads and sequins (recycled from an old cushion) plus oodles of fun!

Modern Hand Embroidery: Spring Mandala

 Stitches used: couching, chain and satin and beading work on unbleached linen

Cross Stich: From a Disaster to an Opportunity!

Sometime ago I was shaking a new bottle of Cafe au Lait Coloured Herbin Fountain pen ink at the same desk as my newly cut Aida cross stitch fabric was resting. Disaster!! Needless to say the cap was loose and the ink went everywhere. I had some remarkable facial and hand spots for a little while!! I washed the Aida with no hope of removal of the ink but I didn’t throw it away. I christened it and so I may as well put a name to it..the hoop will be its frame and it will hang on the wall above my coffee machine! The pattern was from Etsy but I changed the lay out to suit.

Modern Hand Embroidery: Little Cotton Fold Up Shopping Bag

 Embroidery and beads

Modern Hand Embroidery: Rainbow Mandala

Rainbow Mandala: sewn with sequins, beads and Sashiko (Daruma) Japanese Rainbow Thread

Work in Progress: Cross Stitch: 'Yellow Cat, Red Fish' (Matisse)

 121 colours, 65cm x 45cm