For those of you who don't know about Joel - he's an awesome Dad who make The Most Amazing Toys for his kids. Simple things out of everyday materials that have LOADS of play value. Scroll through his archives and then pre-order the book he has coming out in October. It looks fabulous!
Anyway - Joel does these terrific coloring pages - really great lines drawings that just beg to be embroidered. So I stitched one up and wrote up a post on how to do it. There's a lot of info you've already seen on my site about how to transfer the pattern and what some of the basic stitches are. But I also include some information about my thought processes as I made the design decisions about what stitches to use where, where to add color, and what color thread to use. I think it would be useful to anyone who wants to learn more about making their own embroidery design decisions. Check it out!
Love this! Adding you to my blog roll! I adore your embroidery designs. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Wendi. Joel sounds like a really cool dad. I'm going over now to check it out!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Emily!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! I've been an admirer of Joel for a while now. It's really neat for me to see you two have connected :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle! Isn't Joel awesome? I hope to do some more projects with him in the future.
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