Flickr Finds

I love it when I peek into the Sublime Stitching Flickr Pool and something makes me gasp. Like this pillow of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans by Mae Starr or this pillow Claudia Marchán covered with patterns from my new book of sugar skulls, flourishes, roses and swallows:

This bit of free-form embroidered loveliness called "Fantasia" turned up in the Sublime Stitching Flickr Pool by Helga Franz. It looks like she used variegated perl cotton to get the flowing, changing colors. SoOoOoo pretty. Kind of makes me think of a sea anenome, or a fantastic flower releasing multi-colored pollen...(what does it make you think of?)

Okay now. This submission to the Sublime Stitching Flickr Pool put me in a great mood and definitely wins an award (by "award" I mean "blog entry") for doing something really fun and original with my robot pattern. Let's note all the ways Carrie made this design extra awesome according to her own creative whims:

• candy cane mouth (excellent)
• santa hat (nice touch)
• ornaments for eyes (did you notice those?)
• French knot Christmas lights (bravo on your knots)
• display on his chest reads "gift" (cute)

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French Knot Tutorial

Spaced Out! Embroidery Patterns

GASP! I think all the air left the room when I sucked in my breath 'cause it was taken away by this absolutely stunningly stitched sampler Jamie made from Embroidered Effects! This is a full-page transfer pattern in the book I made that takes you baby-steps through some more complex stitches, but leaves you with something worthy of display. But, you can choose your own colors, and what to put it on. Jamieobviously obviously (heh) did a WONDERFUL job with those choices. Seeing this totally made my day!

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(get this pattern here)

Oh, I loved stitched cards. Geesh, nobuddy ever sends me a stitched card (hint hint). But I'm sure whoever received hopeshore's stitched maneki neko cat from Sushi Bar gushed with glee!

Lots of Sublime-ly stitched Maneki Neko cats! Maneki whut?

Whoah, now! I am blown away (no pun intended) by E Elizabeth's incredibly awesome apron dress! Link

This very sweet handmade postcard turned up in the Sublime Stitching flickr pool. Sunnysidey added some spectacularly stitched flowers to my Kokeshi Doll Free Pattern. Very creative! (Do you really want to entrust this to the Post Office?)

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More embroidered wood! (Oh, wait. I already said that.) So, after I asked for who else had been embroidering on wood, NewandDifferent chimed in with her piece, and I especially like that she's given us a peek at the back. But, this wasn't the piece I was thinking of (not that this isn't wondrous and fantastic). It was someone who had been embroidering on raw bark. Anyone, anyone? Bueller? Check out NewandDifferent's embroidered wood piece on Flickr!

Ooh, this is some fine 'n tiny stitching. I'm squinting at the screen and I can't tell how such teensy stitches were made, especially for the skin! I'm so glad people are adding their own fishnets to the charleston dancing flapper from the Roaring 20's sheet! Submitted by beeflisa to the Sublime Stitching Flickr Pool.