Flowery Cowl

Kitchen Ninja can also embroider. except french knots. those suckers make me want to spit fire out of my eyeballs. . . Anyway, I made a cowl. for my mamma. She's into flowers, and being warm, so it was a natural choice.

The cowl is lined with deep plum jersey fleece, and the embroidery was done over the course of three days on a piece of linen. I then added big wooden buttons and called it Freakin' Fabulous.

I'll add the embroidery pattern to this post as a PDF as soon as I get a chance.

Kitchen Ninja Out.

christmas scarf!

guess which ninja finally dropped her camera one time too many!

that's right...this ninja. so my photos will be poor until i can talk myself into spending the money to replace it. i can literally pull the top off of the thing and hear stuff jingling around inside, so i can't avoid buying a new one anymore.

until then, here are the two photos of the scarf i made for fellow ninja megan for christmas: it's a long piece of jersey with a peacock feather embroidered at the end. simple, but i love it [and i hope she does, too].





i tried to draw my own peacock feather pattern, but was disappointed in everything i ended up with. urban thread's patterns were on sale, so i purchased this one. most of their simple patterns [all of which are adorable] are a dollar for the hand embroidery version. and, best of all, they keep stored the patterns you've purchased in the past so you can access them on the website with your sign in, instead of having to save them to your computer and hope you don't lose them.

*update with better photos from my new camera!*

Press 'n Seal Portraits

HOLY JEEZ! Press'n seal is awesome. This past weekend the one thing I really wanted to do was make an embroidered portrait of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. I know, totally boring, everybody's doing it, blah blah blah...

As I was looking through my crapacopia of stuff I found that I had no tracing paper or tracing pen. BAH. What to do? That's when Press'n Seal came to my rescue.

I put the press'n seal over a picture I liked. I then outlined it in permanent marker. I picked out a piece of fabric, press'n sealed the design onto it, put in in my embroidery hoop, and got to it.

The nice part about this technique is that you can also do some free hand work and add to simpler designs.

Here's the finished product - I think I'm going to turn him into a hot/cold compress cover.

welcome to our shiz!

so, this one time tammia said to me, "we should start a craft blog!" to which i replied, "we abso-freaking-lutely should!" and here we are.

"we" includes [so far] tammia, who could take a plain-colored bedsheet and make it both awesome and beautiful as well as myself - jamie - the wielder of all things yarn-related. we are also soon to be joined by megan, seamstress extraordinaire and the most patient crafter i've ever met. but she doesn't get to find out until after christmas about our new project. :)

so, for now, take a look at the cards i'm embroidering for christmas, and poke not fun at me for them being so simple. i just started last week and i have like, 25 to make.

merry christmas!
jamie lynne