Embroidered Flower Lady - Start to Finish!

Hopefully you haven't grown sick of seeing this flower girl on my blog, but I thought it was would be fun to do a "start to finish" post.

I originally stitched the lady outline back in 2013. My husband drew it and I stitched it with a purple variegated floss.

Not knowing what to do with it, I put it in a box with some other embroidery pieces where it would sit for a few years.

Then last year (2015) - we were in the process of moving and I was packing my embroidery stuff, I started looking through my projects and found it again. It looked so bare and unfinished. I decided I would fill it in with flowers.

Slowly adding in flowers. 

The following two photos it was removed from the hoop so the fabric looks a bit puckered and wrinkly. 

I should also mention that this is stitched on a tea towel, but I am not going to use it as a tea towel, I just really like stitching on that fabric.

Back in the hoop for more stitching!!

Added leaves and greenery.

Then I filled in her hair with straight stitches - almost a satin stitch but intentionally left spacing between each stitch.

I think she is finished for now. I only wanted to fill her legs and "booty" with flowers.

WIP Wednesday - Flower Lady Progress (Part 3)

I finally filled in the hair on my flower lady.

Before:

This was taken before I finished the flowers inside the legs

After:

For the filling I worked straight stitches close together - it is almost like a satin stitch but I wanted some slight spacing in between the stitches.

Previous Posts:

Flower Lady Progress: Part Two

Original Stitched Purple Lady

WIP Wednesday - Flower Lady Progress (Part 2)

I have made quite a bit of progress on my flower lady since last WIP Wednesday.

The top two photos I finished stitching all the flowers.

The following two photos are after adding leaves and stems throughout the flowers.

Next up: filling in the hair. Not sure what stitch to use yet though!

WIP Wednesday - Flower Lady Progress (Part 1)

Well, I have made some progress on my "flower lady".

I am starting to add some leaves around the flowers today.

By next Wednesday, I am hoping to have a lot more to show you!

WIP Wednesday: Flower Lady

Today's post is just a few photos of a WIP that I have been slowly working on.

To give you a little hint - I am filling up this stitched purple girl with flowers.

WIP Wednesday: Stitching Something Else (That is not TAST!)

It's been a long time since my last WIP Wednesday post! I feel like I haven't really had any embroidery projects going on - except for TAST posts.

Time for a change. 

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy the Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge and have been doing pretty good lately keeping up with it each week, but I need to stitch something else!

So I have started a couple little embroideries that are going to be gifts. 

Here is one very quick photo of my WIP I just started of this little sheep.

I love stitching little sheep! :)

Miscellaneous

Just a random post of miscellaneous things to share today.

Back when I was working on my Furry Nice Polar Bear, I took this photo of my work area just for fun. I thought it was funny the amount of floss everywhere. The polar bear is even making a cameo!

This is my embroidery chair. I actually bought it specifically to sit on for when I embroider - back in 2010 or so. It has been my trusty chair - it even moved across the US from Minnesota to Seattle because I didn't want to part with it.

I snapped the picture below because they were my color choices for the Furry Nice polar bear and I liked how they all looked together. :)

I have two projects I want to start this week. One is a beetle pattern that was included from the Furry Nice Embroidery class and one that is a birthday gift for my niece. I will post more on both when I get my colors chosen. 

Later!

WIP Wednesday - Bunnies!

My last WIP Wednesday post was a long time ago (back in September 2013!!)

I took a quick photo of my current work in progress - a cute little bunny that I basically forced my husband to draw for me. (Ok - technically its just a photo of my tools before I even started..)

I wanted to embroider an Easter gift for someone - so I am stitching some bunnies on a tea towel.

Now let's hope I can finish it before Easter arrives! :)

WIP Wednesday - Tribute to Erro - Girl #3

Wow - it feels like I have been working (er, hardly working!) on stitching this face for a million years... It also feels like a million years since I have posted a WIP Wednesday!

Here is the progress I have made on my Erro face since the last time I posted about it back in June. I think I have made quite a bit of progress.

I am happy with it so far - the lips still need to be filled in.

Here is what it looked like when I first started stitching to give you an idea of the progress. Please excuse the very poor photo lighting!! :) It almost doesn't even look like the same eyes...

This is my third girl in my "tribute to Erro" embroidery project. Erro is my favorite artist and I chose 3 girls faces from his paintings/drawings to embroider. They are for me - I hardly ever stitch something just for me to keep. I plan on mounting them on canvas when I am finished.

I previously posted here about Girl #2 and and Girl #1 you can check out here on my Flickr page.

Hopefully it will not take me another three months to finish!

WIP Wednesday - Erro #3 update

Slow progress on my latest Erro.

WIP Wednesday

My latest work in progress. I've started on my third Erro tribute embroidery.

I've started on the black outline of the eyes.

Erro is one of my favorite artists. My previous Erro embroidery I posted about here  and my first can be seen on my Flickr set here.

WIP Wednesday

I've made some progress on my little sheep stitching. Any work on it has been during my lunch breaks.

I am much more excited about my other wip for the Phat Quarter group swap on Flickr. It's my first swap and the theme is "blinded by science". My deadline is April 30th so I have get going on it. I will post photos of it when I am finished.

WIP Wednesday

Ok, so this is technically not a "work in progress" but it soon will be!

I am excited for this one. I love sheep and when I saw this pattern from Floss Box on Etsy, I just had to buy it! I love it.

I am not following the exact floss colors the pattern suggests, but I know it will be cute no matter what.