#52 tags - Week 5 - Kisses

So this weeks prompt is 'Kisses' which translated to a large cross.  And then some cross stitch somewhere on the tag.

I have a tendency to over think things... to the point where I often don't get started.  So I'm sitting there this morning auditioning this configuration and that configuration.  Still totally unsure if the fabric side of things was done.  But in the end I thought I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this.  I like how this looks and yes I could mess with it for an hour (or more) and maybe come up with something I like better (but chances are probably slim) so lets call it done.  And wow! thats actually quite liberating.

I also have a habit of bleeding on things.  Most of my projects generally get a blood sacrifice at some point, so I stab stitched everything down so I could ditch the pins before there was blood haha.  And once it was all down I didn't think really it needed much in the way of stitching.  So might be a bit 'light' compared to some but I'm pretty pleased with it.  And I'm really getting into frayed edges!

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 TAST 2021

A couple more TAST tags.  This weeks stitches are Stem and Portuguese Stem.  I also hadn't yet done Linked Chain (plain and beaded) and I threw in Split stitch as well cause its my favourite 😃

 #52 tags - Week 4 - Fly Stitch

Every few weeks in the 52 tags challenge is apparently going to be a stitch week.  This week the stitch is Fly stitch.  Not one of my favourites, apart from the meanderings branch type thing I'm never really sure how to use it.  But I put my big girl pants on and decided to make the tails long and to layer them up.  So I found a nice piece of 'grunge' quilting fabric a green on cream kind of thing.  And a matching range of greens from DMC and went at it.

I did forget to glue it to the tag which explained why I had so much trouble keeping it straight while attaching it to the tag but we got there in the end.  I'm quite pleased with it,  feels a little adventurous for me.

Anyway, here it is.

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A couple more TAST tags

Buttonhole, Reversed Buttonhole Band and good old Running stitch.

#52 tags - Week 3

This weeks prompt is 'Scrappy'.  I've seen various embroideries done from Ort jars which I always think is such a great idea.  But I'm not that organised or prolific to have a large jar of Orts.  I usually have a wee pot that my hubby made me for my wee bits of rubbish that once its full gets just thrown out.  I know, I know - the horror! Haha.

Anyway, I did have a wee rifle through what was currently in there and made this weeks tag from the bits I found in there.  So here it is.

I also couldn't help myself and made a 'cover' for the my 52 tags 😀

I've also been making little fabric tags this week for TAST.  Just for something to do, not sure if I'll do the full year of TAST but I'm enjoying making wee tags for the minute so am just going to go with it.

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#52 tags - Week 2

So as I was a few days late to the party by the time I finished my first tag the second one was just being announced.

The prompt this week was Patchwork and it had to contain a Heart in a contrasting colour.  

Most of my hand sewing of late has been patching hubbys jeans.  You know the ones they wear when they're chopping down trees or working on the car or wading through crocodile infested swamps.  I have no idea what happens down near his man cave.  Anyway... I've been patching those for him.  On the other side of the fence my daughters jeans keep mysteriously getting holes in the knees, strategically and fashionably placed type holes.  Of course she has no idea how this happens - yeah right.  And this week I've sacrificed a pair of my old jeans to her to make denim shorts.  (And I lost a belt to help her hold them up, but thats not related to my patch.)

So patching jeans... lead me to denim and the spare legs I had left from my old jeans.  And multiple layers of denim to fix holes lead me to weave the denim into a patch.  

So heres tag number 2

Now I've got the bug again... so what to do for the rest of the week!?!

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New Year, New Challenge - #52tags - Week 1

Wow! Its been a whole year since I posted in this blog.  And its probably been about that long since I really did much in the creative space.  Actually thats not totally true, I did crochet over the winter, but I don't think you can count mending the dogs toys after she's yet again ripped poor Monkeys arm off or decided to disembowel poor Teddy.  But I haven't been embroidering.

However I have been looking for inspiration of late.  I really love the slow stitching type embroidery.  The lack of a plan, the collage type effect of the fabrics, the just 'let it take you where you end up' kind of thing. 

Anyhow I stumbled across Anne Brooke the other day and a couple of challenges she ran last year.  The sew for the soul bobbin and then the book as well.  These things are beautiful!  And she's just started a new challenge for 2021.  #52tagshannemade 52 tags (approx. 2 x 3 inches) and a prompt each week.  These are beautiful slow stitching type pieces of work that are then sewn to cardboard tags.  

So maybe just maybe I can do this miniature version until I pluck up the courage to launch into something bigger like the bobbin or the book.  I don't have a huge stash of fabric and I most certainly don't have a stash of pretty ribbons or lace laying around. (have you met me?!?! haha).  But as the remit is a tag and thats about it, I'm hoping I can work around those wee problems.

Week 1 - the prompt was 'All White' and here's mine.

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