The latest and greatest...embroidering....and first post of 2013

i need to get it together with this blogging crap.  here goes step one of getting it together.  i realize now that i have crafter's ADD...my newest task to learn is embroidery.  i am going to be the renaissance woman of crafting.  uhhhh, why cant you just stick to ONE thing, says Colin.  like any other craft, it can't be THAT hard.  so i watched a few video tutorials on youtube and was on my merry way.  i figured the best way to start is with lettering using backstitch (??? maybe, i just made that up).  my friend's 30th is coming up, so i am going to make her something, i dont know what, with embroidering.  so i did a practice run.  i used 3 strands of the 6 that come in a thing of embroidery floss.  once i got through two words, i figured out i should have used 2 strands because it was too "fat" (per colin) and the words are a bit difficult to read...

stay tuned for the finished product but here's what it looks like so far....

 

 

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