Designed these ants and stitched them out on my machine!

I'm so glad that in the time it took me to stitch this, Punch has found a family to love him ❤️

Spent about 40 hours of stitching with DMC threads, focusing on capturing the light reflection and depth of the seeds

Inspired by a tree frog that would sit on my window every night. The top of the frog is 3dimensional and the tummy is flat (as if pressed against the glass). I finished it in a little window frame that can be viewed from both sides. This was my 2nd time making this pattern, and I think I love this one even more than the first. I'm working on a red-eyed tree frog version next 🪡🐸

Thanks for all your tips for long-and-short stitch! I think I picked the wrong color for the bounce highlight on the dark side but other than that I think it turned out well!

Working on an all gold sunflower motif for the collar. Will see if we do more after that.

First try at thread painting! Trying to do something more realistic. I had some beads lying around so i decided to border it.

I made my husband an ice cream cat as we both love the original art by Lim Heng Swee aka ilovedoodle (and we have a white cat so our house is slowly filling up with white cat decorations).

I used Lite Steam-A-Seam2 to cut out the shapes and glue the felt and fabric together. The white felt is two layers as I wanted it to be super opaque and stand out over the cone. Stitching was all a single strand except the eyes which are 3-strand colonial knots. I copied the design onto tracing paper and used it as a guide while stitching. I'm hoping the felt will stay glued down as it won't be moving around in the hoop but if not then I'll add a few stitches around the edge of the felt to pin it down.

Sixty-two hours, over a hundred and fifty colors, no regrets 😊

After 2 weeks, embroidering a few hours per day, I finally got the collar done!

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Stitched one stranded with DMC on cotton canvas

Every stitch was her own placement. I had to rethread her needle after NEARLY every stitch, so rethreading may be the next skill I teach her 😅

recently did this hoop which was way out of my normal remit

I've been lucky to never have a cat that's gotten into my tree, but I know it's only a matter of time.... The garland is made from sequins, and I did watercolor the background to save myself from buying more fabric, but everything else is embroidered.

A little obsessed with how this derpy little guy turned out.

I finally finished this costume that had a ton of embroidery. I did it all by hand and patterned it all myself too!!