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Over the past couple of months I have been stock piling craft supplies (as if I didn’t have enough lol). I also have been stocking up on books. One useful book I found was this one. When I decided to start embroidering again I made a trip to Ginger’s here in Austin. I found some great iron on transfers that were more modern and hip by Sublime Stitching. Ginger suggested I also pick up this stitch book by Coats & Clark. It was only $3 and has proven a wealth of knowledge.

I studied and practiced a couple of the new stitches (well, new to me at least). I highly recommend this for all beginners and recommend picking up some sublime iron on transfers.

As I browse through several crafters’ blogs I’ve noticed that a lot of people have this book in their craft library. I found this steal at Amazon.com. I spent more on shipping than I actually did for the book. Like a 5 year old the day before their birthday, I couldn’t wait to get this book in my little hands, so I paid for expedited shipping. It was still cheaper than what I could have bought if for on Ebay. I saw lots of great lil guys I can’t wait to make, including the Amy doll. Looks like I have a lot of WIP’s in my future.

I had fun this holiday weekend. A while back I found a vintage iron on transfer at the antique mall. It being a vintage transfer I didn’t want to cut it to transfer the design. I’ve found an iron on transfer marker at Michael’s made by Sulky.

I really haven’t embroidered since I was a child. I remember my mom teaching me. I had my own embroidery hoop and all. So I was excited when I found this.

I transfered the design. Eventhough the pattern can be transfered like 2-3 times I taped it to my journal and added an entry to my hand written journal. Just a lil something about my new project. I started it an then my friend came over and I set it aside. She was impressed to see how crafty I was. She saw my desk for the first time and realized why I ended up making my own desk.

The next day I spent most of the day finishing my book for book club and moved on to finishing the embroidering of Beto el burro. MAN I KNOW WHY THEY INVENTED THIMBLES. The 2 thimbles I have weren’t comfortable so off I trotted to trusty Wally World. I spent like 45 min. in the craft section planning on what I wanted to do with this lil donkey. I hadn’t really planned on anything because it was just a practice run. You know to test out the new and old stitches. But the lil guy was turning out pretty cute and I COULDN’T just let him sit in a box somewhere. So I decided to make him a pocket on an apron.

I found a 2.33 apron pattern. It’s a see and sew or some other economicaly priced sewing pattern. It’s actually really cute. Well, I’ve decided to make an apron like the folkloric skirts we used to wear for Jalisco. Not the whole skirt, just the ribbons on the bottom with one pocket displaying Beto el burro.

So now that burro is finished, it’s on to planning the apron. I might give it as a gift or post for sale on my Etsy.com account. Keep ya posted.

I love making plushies out of felt. Was browsing through flickr and saw some plushies made out of fleece and another made of furry felt so i picked up some material the last time I went craft shopping. I tested out these materials….poor poor plushies. I never finished them because they didn’t pass quality control. I’ll post pics of the headless plushies soon. How come my wonky dolls didn’t turn out as cute as others? I was hoping to make a supersoft version of Blue Dog. No worries. Besides, the pattern was hard to transfer to these materials anyway. I think I’ll stick to my felt.

ADDED 9/05/06