So, I have been doing a bit of embroidery lately. I have to say, that I feel like I am cheating on my sewing machine. I began my love of all things fabric and thread by taking a summer class when I was 8 and then progressing into cross stitch. When I got into quilting, I left all of that behind, so it has been nice to enjoy these projects:

I made this from a fantastic Orange Flower Tutorial and gave it to my son’s pre-school teacher as a year end thank you.

I backed it with the fabric my husband printed for me through Spoonflower. My son, Archie, designed the fabric which is the rare combination of flowers and smiling storm troopers.

The next is this inspirational note from Katie Cupcake:

I had Archie write the note in washable ink, and then I stitched over the top. I have dreams of creating a bunch of these little pieces of ‘paper’ and using them to write notes more frequently and hang them with a clothespeg somewhere. But all that stitching for the lines of the note takes awhile. I did this one by hand—maybe machine stitch the lines and hand embroider the text??