My inspiration has been discarded

Hello.

I have been practising my embroidery skills and I was very pleased with my last result.

I had plans to use them on a little top I had made from calico

or at least on some bottoms I wanted to make to match.

I finished the top and edged 'adore' embroidery with ric rac and sewd it on to the top.

Well it looked slightly ridiculous,  so I changed my mind and decided to unpick it and use it on some pants, maybe as a pocket.

Then I left it for a week or so.

When I finally finished this project I decided not to use it at all.

I completed the outfit with a ruffle skirt made from seersucker gingham.

 

I think the outfit has a wholesome feel to it.

So does anyone have any suggestions what I can use my embroidery for?

I'd love to hear your ideas.

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On a separate note, I reached a milestone today, exactly 16,000 views of my blog.

I'm sure it is not much compared to most of you all in blogland but I can't believe there have been that many people interested in seeing

"what i made today"

Thanks everyone for making it a good day :-)

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A Little Embroidery

Hello.

I wanted to try my hand at a little embroidery. I really didn't know what I was doing so I searched for some good tutorials and found this one.

I decided to make a pair of Ben & Mia pants for my baby (whose is almost 1) and my nearly 4 year old.
I had already made some for my little man here.
I thought I'd just embroider the pockets in a random pattern.

I tried out the lazy daisy and the basque stitch as well as some french knots.
Then I tried the basic chain stitch and turned it into a whipped chain stitch.

Although my stitches are FAR from good, I'm still very happy with the result.

I can already see that I have improved since the first stitches I made. It's all in the tension.

I decided only to use the pockets on my baby's pants as my stitches are a little too loose and probably wouldn't hold up to a 4 year old playing around.

I ended taking up the pants by 3.5 inches for the size 1's to fit my girl.

Even after that I found they fit better by rolling up the cuff.

     

I left the pants for my 4 year old quite plain, just white piping around the pockets and contrasting white stitching.

And some photos from another day...

 I just love my feral bunch.

xxx

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