Andrea Zuill’s Blog

More Spring fun with a bird pattern!

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Remember, if you stitch it send me a photo so I can blog it!

With the increased interest in Gnomeage I decide to create a Gnome Embroidery pattern set for my Etsy store.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=87013

Cuteness abounds.

Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style

Primitive Elegance is what I think as I go through the book Alabama Stitch Book by Natalie Chanin, with Stacie Stukin, photograph by Robert Rausch.   Here are the 4 things I like about this book, 1) Great story about how Natalie started this style, her business and how she tapped a community for talent. 2)  Using traditional sewing methods in a very contemporary way. 3) Easy method! 4) Sustainable crafting.

Her work is beautiful and has given me ideas for many new projects.  Her use of Cotton Jersey will release the hand stitcher in all of us.

Here is a nice mix, a pixie, gnome and (one of my older patterns) a mermaid.

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a) Mermaid by Dropstitch

Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dropstitch/

b) Gnome and mushrooms by Claudia

Claudia’s blog:  http://linhasimaginarias.blogspot.

c)  Spring Pixie by K.Underwood

Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/twomaybabies/

I’m back from a little trip and when I went on my computer i found that my fine internet friends had sent me more images of their embroidered gnome. Also, several people (acting at embroidery spy’s) let me know that doe c doe had given the gnome a whirl.

a) doe c doe

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22309813@N02/2422184458/

Blog: http://doecdoe.blogspot.com/

b) Rocket Scientist

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/rocketsc1ent1st/

a)spookshowbaby77/ Flickr@http://www.flickr.com/people/spookshowbaby77/

Etsy Store @ www.lilchicken.etsy.com

b) i am susie/Flickr@ http://www.flickr.com/people/iamsusie/

Etsy Store @ www.iamsusie.etsy .com

Blog @ iamsusie.blogspot.com/

c) iamcraftylittlemonkey/Flickr@http://www.flickr.com/people/craftylittlemonkey/

d) K.Underwood/Flickr@http://www.flickr.com/photos/twomaybabies/

I changed the format for showing other stitchers work.  Please let me know if you like it.  Thanks!

First things first,  I would like to shout out a big time Thanks! to my friend at Bliss for featuring my art on her blog.  You can check out Bliss at http://www.blissfulb.blogspot.com

I have started work on the white panels on the Snake in the Grass quilt.

Okay, Okay! I told you the name of the quilt and showed you some images of it, but I didn’t include the snake after which the quilt is named (Snake in the Grass, quilt). So, here it is. Now leave me alone. Not really. All your comments show you care. oxox

After I am done with the embroidery on the blue background fabric I will be appliqueing color shapes onto the white panels.

Down the road from the Yeti, which I mentioned in a earlier post, I came across of miniture village.  Almost hidden, in grass and weeds, is a group of dollhouse size, handmade buildings.  It felt quite magical finding this little town, but unfortuanately is suffering from a lot of decay.

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I have made some headway on the Snake in the Grass Quilt. Almost everything has been appliqued to the background material. The exception is on the white panels. On the white panels I have not added the color shapes yet. I got into a hurry to embroider. I think that it is interesting to note the difference between the appliqued shapes without embroidery and the shapes that have embroidery.