Folk Art Santas Fat Quarter 2 Done!

Woot!

All of my Spoonflower fabric designs are available here!

(btw- the fabric is white, the cream color is just a camera trick)

Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter #2!

I've been busy with other stuff during the day, but in the evenings, I'm still embroidering. My Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter #2 arrived from Spoonflower (it's available for ordering now, also as wrapping paper). Again, I suggest the Basic Cotton for embroidery, and Kona Cotton or Canvas for painting or coloring.

I am really happy with how this one came out, and as always, I'm delighted with Spoonflower's service and quality.

I decided to go mostly monochrome reds with this entire fat quarter. It would have been ALL red, but the thread showed through from snowflake to snowflake, and as much as I love embroidery, I'm not tying the thread off for every snowflake...

I also decided to leave the faces white, with just a crayon circle for the pink cheeks.

I still have the two Santa motifs to embroider. I might do some table runners with this one.

How cool is this????

CAUTION:  If you order this wrapping paper from Spoonflower, be advised that alcohol based markers (Prismacolor, Sharpies, etc) smudge the printing. Water based markers are best for coloring on the glossy paper.

Spoonflower also makes wrapping paper!!!!!

I had my first Spoonflower Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter, and the Sample Swatch, printed up and I am thrilled with the results. The paper is nice and heavy and glossy- 26" x 6'. I think it'll be perfect for markers and crayons (maybe not so perfect for colored pencils). The motifs are larger than they are on the fabric- a good size for coloring.

This is going to be fun!

Even their mailing tube is cool!

Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter #1 Embroidered and Colored

I finished embroidering Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter #1 (available from Spoonflower). And I love it!

All 5 blocks embroidered!

My plan is to cut them apart and re-assemble them as a wall hanging with spacer strips (in bright coordinating colors), and then hand quilt the piece. But that's not set in stone yet.

I had an extra one of these Fat Quarters, so I decided to color it with crayons. My plan is the same as above, though I think I'll quilt it with embroidery floss to enhance the outlines (and maybe do a little embroidery, but I'm not sure).

Crayons have interesting color names these days.

All were colored lightly, and then set with a hot, dry iron (with layers of paper toweling on top and below, to absorb any wax. The Bookmark blocks look more *crayony* than I thought they would, but I'm sure they'll be fine once they're put together.

Here's the whole thing. Again, I think I'll make a wall hanging. Or maybe a couple of wall hangings. I don't know for sure yet.

Folk Art Santa Fat Quarter #2 should be here within a week or so, and I'll be off to the races again!

Amazing what you can accomplish during a long afternoon of football...

And yes, of course, I watched the new X-Files (there were some very bad words muttered during the exceptionally, and needlessly, long post-game wrap-up), and I did it without embroidering or knitting (my ultimate compliment to a TV show). I may have teared up a little at the opening credits.

My bar for new installments of the show is set pretty low- I just want Mulder and Scully back together (on the screen, they don't have to be together-together), and that made me very happy. The first episode got tepid reviews, but almost unanimously, the advance reviews for the other episodes are very good indeed.

Here's my recap of last night's episode: aah, ooh, SQUEEE!!!!!!, is that a wig?, heeee, sigh

Words this time, and a new embroidery panel!

I'm continuing work on the first Folk Art Santa embroidery panel (available from Spoonflower now).

I really love how all of these are coming out. Again, the faces are lightly colored with crayon and then set with a hot, dry iron (using paper towels to absorb any wax)

And, I finished a new Santa swatch, which will be available soon.

And another Folk Art Santa Embroidery Panel. As with the first one, this fat quarter has 5 blocks to embroider, embellish, or color. My samples should arrive in a week or so, and as soon as they do, both the panel and the swatch will be listed for sale!

And speaking of *for sale*- Spoonflower let me know that my Embroidery Panel #1 was currently trending in their Indie Designer Shop! I've designed fabrics through Spoonflower since 2010, and this is the first time any of my designs has *trended*. I am pretty thrilled!

Wordless Stern Star Santa

Santa Side-Eye, no words needed

Oh Boy!

This is going to come out even cooler than I hoped!

And I did finish the Brew Towel first...