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This blog entry on Beauty in the Details pretty much made my day, as you might imagine. Now, I know not everyone is in the market for a baby bib kit, but there just so happen to be some patterns inside that don't come in anything else, like the snoozy owls. And then there's the "Open Up!" design, which I am rather proud of, ifIdosaysomyself. (None of these hafta go on a bib either, you know.)

I've been stockpiling yummy looking Thanksgiving recipes and crafty turkey-day cuteness, and I thought I'd share my finds. The countdown to pumpkin pie (with cinnamon whipped cream) has begun!

Crafty Stuff:

Turkey redwork from The Little Red Hen

Badbird's Turkey embroidery pattern

Homemade pumpkin pie play-dough

KnitaLatte's Crochet Acorn Tutorial  

Turkey Boy Amigurumi Pattern

Abraham Lincoln Embroideries from Lasassone and IamSusie and Stitchin.Thyme

Wild Olive's Recipe Cards, Autumn Coasters, and Tired Turkey Embroidery

My Paper Crane's Turkey Hand Cookies (Brilliant!)

 

Upcycled Napkin Ring How-2

Grocery Shopping List Print-out

Yummy Stuff:

Buying a Turkey: Tips 

Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter, Goat Cheese, and Sage

Cranberry-Apricot Chutney

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Carrot Flowers (Cute!)

Pull-Apart Rolls

Carmel Pumpkin Cheesecake 

Individual Pie Pops

Jennifer Perkin's Pumpkin Ice Cream

Jenny's take on giblet gravy. 

Vegan Thanksgiving recipies. (via Counter Culture) 

 

Other Fun Stuff:

Vintage Cookbook Illustrations

Vintage "Kitchens of the Future"

Scratch and Sniff Holiday Cards (love these)

 

 

Whew! I am back home in Austin after my book tour took me to Crafty Planet in Minneapolis and Renegade Handmade in Chicago (next month: San Francisco and Los Angeles!). It was so much fun getting to see old friends and make new ones. Thank you, to everyone who came out to see me! But enough about moi...

Renegade Handmade is currently showcasing the works of numerous embroidery artists. I'm always excited to get to see new work like this. I especially enjoyed the wall-hangings and jewelry of Candian-based The PinPals. They have hand-stitched buttons, earrings, lockets and pendants. Love!

The PinPals Etsy Store

Renegade Handmade: The In Stitches Showcase

Related: Heavy (Stitched) Metal

More photos, more embroidery and links 'n stuff from my travels coming!

 

 

Pip at Meet Me At Mike's in Sydney, Australia, just sent me a link to these absolutely mind-blowing boots that were entirely hand-made, designed and embroidered by Emma Greenwood. I am speechless. I am emailing her to request a custom pair of fantasy boots. A girl can dream, right?

 

 

 

All of Dana Robson's embroidery work is darling, but I'm especially fond of this piece. I love the network of bold geometric shapes coupled with the sweet little bird.

 

 

This was a wonderful surprise to my week. Look at what Veroka in Argentina made from the Free Kokeshi pattern I put on Flickr! She made a really beautiful rubber stamp from it. Looks like a Japanese woodcut. I love how she hand-embellished the kimono with flowers. *Deep satisfied, happy sigh*. Link

 

 

I was a-doing the blog rounds, checking in on Feeling Stitchy and loveloveloved this cutecutecute towel that s@r@lynn stitched with the Julie West patterns. See? This is what you can do with this repeatable iron-ons! 

Bee Happy Towel via  Feeling Stitchy

 

Lo, these many years ago (okay, like, four) I blogged about Adrien Lucas' unbelievably dense and gorgeous hand-embroidered Tuff Betty Bags. Adrien emailed me recently and I was thrilled to see she is still embroidering beautiful purses within an inch of their lives and selling them on Etsy! Tuff Betty Bags on Etsy

 

 

 

Jenny collects Kokeshi dolls - you know, the cute wooden Japanese dolls with helmet hair and no arms or legs. There's a collection in her kitchen, a teensy one dangling from her cellphone, and lately - doodles of them on her desk. Well, she decided to transform one of the sketches into a embroidery pattern and share it with you for free! Yippee! You can download it below, or on our flickr page. After you stitch it up will you pretty please submit it to the Customer Gallery? They are going to be so sweet! 

Above are a few other Kokeshi finds on Etsy from Mirabel, Temple7e (yes. that is a princess leia kokeshi) and Stephanie Fizer.

 

 

Twitter Follower Giveaway:
A random follower picked this week will receive two free packs of patterns! 

After our recent, Pick-Yore-Brain customer survey, we discovered that there are more of you than we realized who don't know a danged thing about twitter. Well, prepare to get schooled! Uuuhnless, you'll already all over it. That's cool. But there were an awful lot of you who responded "What's twitter?" when we asked. (Don't worry, I won't out you here.) If you want to follow our twitter updates (little one-sentence blurbs with links, like a mini-blog), just visit Sublime Stitching on Twitter and follow us!

Update 3/13/09: Congratulations to DeannaL! And hello and howdy to all our new twitter followers!