Teapots again

I have been in town most of the day with the other half, getting his stitches out, but had some time to get some interfacings for my new embroidery machine and have only just sat down to contemplate what to show you for T for Tuesday.
I did have a lovely cup of tea and muffin at the shopping centre, but alas, I forgot my camera!  So here is a machine embroidered teapot for you.

It is not my design.  I am certainly not that quick!  I downloaded it from here.
Hope everyone is having a lovely T for Tuesday and Happy Birthday Halle!

Happy creating!

Tea pots and stuff

Here is my contribution for T for tuesday.  Nothing very exciting like a glorious restaurant like Elizabeth's.

I have showed this teapot before, but not this page.  It is a teapot my grandmother gave me and the painting is of the tea plant in flower.  I have also added some collage leaves.
I am working on a couple of projects, which I hope to show you soon, but of course we are having another very hot week after a little break which was glorious, but is now over.

Happy Creating!

On the mend

I have finally finished my sketchbook cover.

I am quite happy with the way it turned out.  I trimmed it to size and glued the edges so the stitching was secure, then thought about how to attach it to the sketchbook.
I could have glued it down, since it is made specifically for this book, but I decided it was best not to do this in case the book needs rebinding at some time.

I decided to add some sticky velcro to the front and back, which would grab the felt backing.  This worked really well and held the cover on very firmly.

I have not decided yet whether anything will go on the cover under the cutout, or if I will paint the cover.

Above are a few close ups of the stitching.

I have been thinking a lot about blogging and have come to the conclusion that it keeps me on track.  It has been a month since my last post and I have hardly done any textile work.  Whilst a break can be a good thing, I am finding it very hard to get back into the swing of things.  In the past I have always had a little project to keep me going, like ATCs and journal quilts and so I have decided what it is that I need to do every day at present and decided that it is quilting and free motion embroidery..

I have quite a few little sketchpads, filled with free motion doodles and a couple of months ago I came across one where I had doodled hundreds of little feather shapes with different fillings.  I set up a pile of felt and fabric sandwiches to make samples with.  And it sat on my table for quite a while.
So now I have set myself the task of doing one of these feathers a day.  It only takes five minutes and makes me go into the studio and sew.  Of course I can't always blog every day, but my task is to makes sure I do one of these every day and blog at least three times a week.

So here is my first one.  It is a sort of dandelion inside the feather.  I must admit, this one took actually less than a minute!

and here is a bit closer to see the stitches.

So, let's see if I can stick to my project and create every day again.