For Someone Special

I wanted to start the year with a post talking about which projects I want to do this year not only embroidery but other crafts also and I wanted to write about new ideas I am having for the blog. Finally I think I will do that later because I want to write the first project I finished in 2019, a birth record for a special baby.

Las year came to life a new member of my family. He was born on the 25th October and he was, well, he is one of the most desired and wanted babies in the world. His parent were trying to conceive for more than 15 years and finally, when they lost all the hopeness they were having, it was possible. He was on the way……. It is so special for me because his mum is the best friend I could have in my life (on top of being my cousin) and one of the most important person for me. 

I wanted to make a birth record for him with his name and date of birth. I chose a baby design with a dummy holding few balloons, all in blue shades. I chose a fabric I got long time back but never could use it.It is 14 count Aida white with small points in pale blue. I finished it off with a frame imitating the marble stone . It is now flying to its destination. Hope it arrives soon and they like……..

Traditional Embroidery Sampler 2

I finished the second part of my sampler with a bit delay. It is being very hot these days and it is difficult to take the needle and embroider...... Anyway, I could do the second tutorial video Rosario Montoro has in her YouTube channel. In tutorial I did two type of herringbone stitches (in blue and violet). 

I am not really sure about the name of the violet one, if you know how is it call tell me in the comments, please. The problem is the videos are in Spanish......

The third stitch I learnt in this tutorial is the Half-Chevron Stitch. It is a very easy and nice stitch.

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These are the three stitches I learnt this time. It is nice to see how my sampler is advancing, it looks great now. See you in the next post.

Traditional Embroidery Sampler 1

I love traditional embroidery but I never tried it thinking that it was too difficult. I really like to challenge myself and I have decided to take a new challenge, I am going to do a sampler with different traditional embroidery stitches and if I like the result I will start doing small projects using that technique.

For learning, I found a very nice tutorial in YouTube. Videos are in spanish but it is very easy to follow simple by watching them. The lady who is doing the tutorials is really skilled in embroidery. If you want to have a look her name is Rosario Montoro.

Initially I thought in using Lugana Evenwave fabric with Coton Perle no 8 threads but after a try I found the fabric square very small and I decided to change to Aida marble effect 18 count fabric but keeping the same threads.

In this tutorial I did four different stitches which are the basis of the traditional embroidery, stem stitch, chain stitch, blanquet stitch with same and different lenght. I am using different colour for each stitch for identification. Among these four stitches, the one which I like less and had worst results is the chain stitch (in yellow). 

Stem stitch (red) and the two type of blanquet stitch (brown and grey) are not bad if we keep in mind that it is the first time I am doing them.

What do you think about my stitches? Shortly I will continue with the sampler.......