stitch it up!

ok, so i decided to switch it up, but now i have to stitch it up! deciding on a room composition is hard. especially when you wanna run to home depot and ikea and god knows where, right now, and change your entire habitat. whew. breathe. but i have a vision...

bah.

right. so what better thing to do than embroider, si? for my birthday this year, a pal o mine, the pal o mine, bought me an awesome little book called doodle-stitching. it has great little designs, and more importantly, has awesome step by step to show you how to make the different stitches. it's so what i needed, cause so far, everything i have looked at made no sense. i am a visual person, words usually doesn't cut it. but her directions are easy as pie!

a while back, i did this little piece from anna maria's website, v.v. cute....

 but that was a while ago, so i thought... what better way to sort out my thoughts than to practice with a bit of clover embroidery...

(do you like my 70's style photography...how...yellow.)

i think it is cute. three simple stitches, back stich, split stitch, and satin stitch. i did learn a very valuable lesson too... when you iron on a pattern, check to see if it's washable or not... i didn't think to look, and now other patterns surround my design, can't really use it for anything. 

whatcha gonna do...