The recycled Christmas cards which I’m showing today are made in the same way as the ones I wrote about Monday. The only difference is that today’s cards are made in blue colours. The card with the tree in snowy weather has been accompanied by a drawing cut out of a Christmas card from last … [Read more…]
The blog will this week will be dominated by recycled Christmas cards made as shown here. Today’s Christmas cards are kept in red nuances with embroidery in matching colours. The embroideries are made on magazine cut-outs which I have tried to keep in dusty colours. The star on the card above is sewn with a … [Read more…]
I like that my Christmas gifts are wrapped with a personal touch. However, there is a lot of gifts to wrap during the coming month so that personal touch has to be quick. The Christmas gift decoration I want to use this year is hearts made out of old cheese boxes. It is not as … [Read more…]
I have made a couple of Christmas decorations out of old jeans. It sounds a bit boring – however, the fabric has been decorated with embroided stars. Basically the embroided Christmas decorations are styrofoam balls covered with fabric from old jeans. If you want to make something similar than take a ball (mine is 60 … [Read more…]
Christmas is a wonderful occasion to write ‘old fashioned’ letters to friends and relatives. A lot of Christmas cards are needed in December so it is just a question of getting started. The cards which I will show you today are embroided Christmas cards with different fir twigs. All the motifs are embroided with green … [Read more…]
During the summer we spend a week in Cornwall and noticed a lot of beautiful insects. I took a couple of pictures of the nicest thinking that they could be used as inspiration for something. Now two insects have been embroided based on the pictures I took in Cornwall. What I mainly like about the … [Read more…]
I love to fill the house with flowers and plants and therefore it is great to have a selection of vases and flowerpots to choose from. However, I don’t want to spend money on new fancy vases or flowerpots. Today I will therefore show a couple of recycling ideas for flowerpots and vases for the … [Read more…]
During a rainy day in our summer house I discovered an old book with some fantastic drawings of different flowers. I could not resist the temptation to embroider some of the flowers. The only fabric I had brought with me to the cottage was a couple of pieces of old jeans. I had to do … [Read more…]
Sashiko embroidery is beautiful and has a very simple expression. I have been experimenting with different patterns embroided on fabric from old worn out jeans. I find the combination of the dark jeans fabric and the simple embroidery very appealing. Before I start the embroidering I draw the pattern up on the back of the … [Read more…]
Embroidery has for me always been connected with cross stitches on canvas – a little bit dull. However, is does not have to be that way. Lately I have started embroidering on different recycled materials and it is actually quite a lot of fun. An obvious material for embroidery is leftover pieces of old jeans. … [Read more…]