End of the Year Wrap Up of Projects

 Oh, I've been so behind on updating this blog. Yikes!

 

This is a shirt I made. It says, "Everyone deserves due process." I don't use the word deserve lightly, but this is something I truly mean. 

 

This was something I made for my friend. It's something she embodies!

  

I have always loved Hawaiian quilts but I have never been able to make one. This is my attempt at having something akin to a Hawaiian quilt. It's box I made with an embroidery sampler version of a plumeria Hawaiian quilt pattern that Pacific Rim Quilt Company created and based on a box that Claudia Squio designed.  

 

This is a shirt I made for the No Kings Rally 

 

This is an alphabet banner I made for my friend's baby. It was a project in the the raised embroidery course by Adriana Torres that I took on Domestika.

 

This is a pair of jeans I embroidered with a design by Anna Alicia from Gathered Magazine. It was meant to be a banner for a child's bedroom but I loved it so much I decided to put on a pair of skinny jeans that planned to make a little less skinny!

  

This is Floe the Penguin designed by Carolyn Stanton. I made her for a friend.

 

This is a passion fruit flower (designed by Lucy Freeman in Love Magazine) pouch (designed by Amy Butler) with an A monogram designed by Mary Corbet.

 

 

This is Winter Birds by Jessica Long that I made into a hexagonal box. This is my very first attempt at making a hexagonal box! It's not as good as I want, but it's not bad!

 

 

This is a drawing my great grand aunt Minnie did that I then made into an embroidered piece.

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This is a banner I made for the makerspace at the library. It is by Jessie Newton.

 

This is a heart I made in my Domestika course taught by Claire de Waard.

 

This is a napkin my mom made in the 80s that I used until it was threadbare that I then darned.

 

 This is a cricket my great grand aunt Minnie did that I then made into an embroidered piece.

 

This is a Halloween wreath designed by Sara Davey and in Love Embroidery.

 

This is an homage to my grandfather-in-law, Matsusaburo Hibi, and Marie Watt.

 

This is block Matsusaburo made and I emulated on wool because of the embroidery work of Marie Watt's. She does a lot with blankets, and there was an obvious connection to me between the US Army blanket in one of her pieces with the US Army blankets the Hibis were issued after being removed from their homes and imprisoned during World War II. My wool is some Pendleton wool my mom gave me, so she's in this homage too. Pendleton wool having importance in a lot of Native communities as well as being cherished by my mom. I chose the colors I did because of a painting Matsusaburo did of two mountain lions. It is essentially the mirror image of the block print below.

 

These are some baskets I made based on Suzy Quilts pattern.

 

This is a Thanksgiving banner I made. I took some drawings made by Draw So Cute and made this to embroider.

 

This is a pillow-to-be, called Tis the Season by Emma Congdon  in Love Embroidery and a sweater my friend saw that looks shockingly similar.

 

  

This is a stitch sampler I designed for my colleague to make.

 There are a couple more in the works but not yet presentable! 

 

New Year New Projects!

I've been busy making lots of little things. Some of these are actually from the tail end of last year...

This was a hummingbird design I was hoping to get finished for Christmas and failed. Luckily the recipient was happy despite it's late arrival. The hummingbird design is by Noriko Livingstone.

 

I made this design for my husband and sewed that on a shirt I made him.

 

 This little box I made for my friend's baby shower! The pattern is from Love Embroidery.

This little owl is also from Love Embroidery.

 

This is a sunflower I did for my friend. It's designed by Emillie Ferris and in her book Paint with Thread.

 

This is a cute little travel embroidery bag my friend got for me that I stitched on. 

This mobile was for my friend and while I wasn't quite able to get it finished before she gave birth, I was pretty close!!! It was designed by Carolyn Stanton.

 

This a needle book I made for myself, using my cartonnage skills.

 

 

This is a little cartonnage lidded box I made.

Round of of all the missing projects

This is a duckling pillow I made for my niece at her behest. The design is by Megan Zaniewski. You can find it in her delightful book!!



This is a box I made of a California quail. I used a photo I found online that I've lost track of and a RGB to DMC converter I found online that I also have lost track of. I'm sure they are both easily found online but I'd rather get this published than search! Sorry to everyone!




This is a box I made for a friend's daughter who recently got into sewing. The sewing machine design, I'm pretty sure, was found in Love Embroidery magazine.



I made this couched Christmas ornaments for my husband's relatives. The design for the ornaments is from Inspiration Magazine.

I made this bag for my friend, Shizuka. It's her name on one side and Trish Burr's fuchsia on the other.


 

This is my Bigfoot that I did based on my friend Torey's drawing. It was super fun and overall, I'm super happy with this guy!

Here's the backside which I think is pretty cool looking in its own right.

This is a box I made of the Chinese character for dream that my student Atsushi wrote for me a long time ago. It's so beautiful. I love this box! It's amazing! I gave it to my niece to take to Japan for me and give to my friend who sadly lost it before even opening it. I imagine it got thrown into a trash can somewhere.




This is a banner from Gathered. 

This is a box I made for my friend's birthday. It's from a Yumiko Higuchi pattern.

This is a box I made for my friend for Christmas. It is a design by Tanya Bentham done in the style of English medieval embroidery.


 

 This is a box I made based on a Yumiko Higuchi pattern.



 

This is a song book I made. I did a little cartonnage book for the Benzie felt cover.