mabel

mabel
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agatha

Agatha and Mabel are now in the shop!

agatha
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Dr. Manhattan Embroidery

Dr. Manhattan Embroidery
Originally uploaded by spes.craft

I posted awhile ago on kittyzilla and her amazing embroidery patterns featuring the characters of 'Watchmen' and this is my first attempt at one of the patterns. I don't consider myself a great embroiderer. I don't know lots of stitches and someone (maybe my grandmother?) once told me that you could tell good embroidery because of the clean and neat BACK as well as front. Well I won't shame myself with a picture of the back of this piece but lets just say it is not clean and neat!

I like embroidery because it is fairly mobile. I did 'Dr. Manhattan' at work and now I am working on Rorschach. I work overnights and sometimes it is busy and sometimes it isn't so it is nice to have something to keep the hands busy while trying to stay awake.

I don't know what I am going to do with these once they are done. I was thinking they would look nice on the wall in simple frames. My mom suggested a small quilt. Hmm.

Lucky Number 186

The lovely Heidi Kenney from My Paper Crane just had a fabric giveaway and I WON! (thank you!) I never win anything. Seriously I can not remember the last time I won any sort of raffle or contest (I didn't even win anything at my high school senior party when EVERYONE was SUPPOSED to win something). The random number generator gods were with me today though and I could not be more thrilled. I am really excited to craft with the new fabric and post all my escapades!

Can you say AMAZING?!

Dr. Manhattan
Originally uploaded by Kittyzilla

Kittyzilla has the most awesome embroidery patterns ever! I found out about her through the always inspiring Craft blog. She has a whole series of 'Watchmen' patterns on her blog and flickr accounts that I am just dying to try!