Category: Brazilian Embroidery

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Project Round up!

I’ve gotten so I post on Facebook more than I post here, but I miss this blog – lots of history and frankly I’ve just gotten so busy with www.denverparent.net and www.midcenturystyle.net that I forget about it! 🙂 I’m almost done with this piece, my first full size cross stitch.

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I should just admit….I’m an addict

Sigh. I just realized I have a problem. I know, all of you will laugh because those of you who are on Facebook or who follow me Twitter-wise or whatever, probably know this, but I have a blog problem. I know, it’s not news. However, I may have just reached

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Finished Shell and June’s BJP Spirit doll

Wow! I finished something else! Woot! Unlike my other pieces, this is going to be made into a pillow and put on Etsy – yay! so, watch for that! Now, if you don’t happen to be my Facebook friend or have known me personally, you won’t know that we’ve actually

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Stitch night! How I love thee!

So, this is actually a DAY of stitching, Dianna and I went back down for our second Brazilian embroidery class – and then a piece that was a DEAD UFO and has been brought back to life (bwa ha ha). This is the piece I was working on in class,

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March goes out like a lamb

March goes out like a lamb

As I was finishing my March spirit doll, I was telling my husband how freeing I’m finding this process. Most of my work I have created has been large, complicated and a learning experience (art school all the way through my needlework experiences). But this entire “I have to finish

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Field Trip

Yesterday my friend Dianna and I (hey, Dianna when are you going to start a blog?) drove to Castle Rock through a bit of leftover snow to take a Brazilian embroidery class from Pam Cole with Heavenly Threads. So, I have lots of pretty eye candy! (be sure to make

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Have I mentioned I’m ADHD?

There wasn’t a diagnosis for ADHD when I was a kid, or I’m sure I would have at least been in the running. I’m literally unable to do the same project for any long period of time, so I start new ones (and don’t finish – thus my side bar

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More Brazilian flower progress

We just got back from a short (but really fun) trip around Colorado – so more photos to come. However, I wanted to share the results of my second Brazilian embroidery class with you. Here’s the progress on one side of the caddy: Here’s a close up of the daisy

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Brazillian Embroidery class and examples

So, finally, these little blow up shots for my brazillian embroidery class. First is this nifty little flower made from bullion knots. Bullions look really complicated, but are fairly simple – a good diagram is here: http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/Bullion.html (however, I do it slightly different – I’ll have to do a tutorial

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