singarequiem asked: Holy crap your embroidery is gorgeous~. I'm curious, what stitch are you using on the typography piece you're working on?

Thank you! It’s just a regular straight stitch repeated over and over.

Glutton for punishment

Picked out my colour palette for a new piece

On Etsy

On Etsy

I love this little dude, he’s probably my favourite of the stags I’ve made lately! He’s made with calico that’s been partly dyed so his coat fades between cream and pale pink, with some little lighter markings on his neck.

fashionable-nerd asked: I adore your blog! I just started embroidering and your work is inspirational. I was wondering how you keep your longer satin stitches to lay so straight? (If that made sense)

Thanks! I’m self taught so I just had to google what satin stitches were so forgive if I’m talking about the wrong thing. I guess you’re referring to some of my book covers where I use one stitch to cover the whole width or height of a letter (or something similar), in which case I ‘back’ my pieces before photographing or scanning them, usually I use a layer of felt wadding and then a piece of grey board and pull the piece tightly around those (I often use drawing pins to pull the fabric taught and pin it to the board). This makes longer stitches lie flat rather than bobbling up. If you meant just keeping the lines in longer stitches straight I just make sure to count the thread between each stitch so they’re all the same distance. Hope this made sense!

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Constellation embroideries were one of the first things I made when I started sewing, I wanted to go back and redo one that’s more like how I work now. It’s interesting to see how it’s changed, the fabric is dyed from a blend of colours to get the colour I wanted rather than just grabbing some blue, and the stitching is far neater!

Popped this on my etsy HERE, if people like them I might do a few more, they’re fun :)

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New stag head in my shop! Once again, these are a bit cheaper while I’m playing around with how to make them :)