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To Boldly Embroider Where No One Has Embroidered Before


I started my Bespin cloak embroidery the other night! What I'm using here is something called a shadow stitch. It's not very even, but I'm still learning. Here's a video tutorial on how to do it. 
I've put the cloak fabric and all my embroidery supplies in a cat tote bag, so I can work on it when I'm out, but I think I'll get most of it done each night while watching Star Trek!Speaking of Star Trek - the 50th anniversary is coming up later this year! And, although there doesn't seem to be any events happening in Melbourne, I am hoping to make a uniform to celebrate.

I've already started research on the fabric. Apparently it's a cotton velour, which is a velvety kind of fabric. Fingers crossed it's stocked somewhere in Melbourne so I don't have to pay for shipping!
Update: I typed up this post last night and saved it to my drafts to post today, but I just wanted to add this progress photo of the embroidery! Working hard!~

Boots, Rain, Embroidery, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The weather so far this week has been utterly miserable, so I've spent most of it inside. Today it's been raining on and off, so I've been snuggled up in some lazy clothes while working on two of my projects!



I should really be starting on the tunic and the pants for my Leia costume first, but I haven't found the right patterns yet. And, with only about a month left to finish the costume, I decided to start the embroidery on the cloak first so that I can work on it continuously on top of all my other projects.



I'm also trying to get my Rey boots done asap so I can continue working on the other pieces for the costume! I've learnt so much while working on this costume. It looks so deceptively simple, but a lot of work is going into each piece.




I spent most of last of night working on this blog and watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang videos on Youtube. Now and then a musical grabs my attention and I consume everything I can find of it. Chitty is such an adorable show. I don't follow many like it, it's so refreshingly optimistic.

Mother's Day Embroidery

Hello, hello, hello! Guess who's finally made a proper blog! I had an account on tumblr for my creations under the pseudonym Emily Reginalds, but I felt it was unprofessional and I wanted to share a blog with potential customers and followers that I could be proud of.

I have to give some credit to the lovely and ridiculously talented Louise over at dearteaswirls - she recently returned to blogging and seeing her posts again gave me that little push I needed to finally create this blog.

I wanted to do an embroidered piece for Nan on Mother's Day. She's just the loveliest person I've ever met who accepted me as a grandchild almost instantly. I also wanted to stretch my embroidery muscles, so to speak, as my next project features A LOT of embroidery.









While searching for potential designs for Nan's gift, I found another gorgeous floral design with the text 'Home is where your mum is' and I knew I had to do one for mum as well. I already knew all the typical embroidery stitches, but for these projects I wanted to try some new things.


These were floral embroidery pieces, after all. I couldn't just lazy daisy and back stitch my way through them. I had the most fun making the roses. They look like so much effort went into them, but the opposite is true. You can find a tutorial for the roses here.









Happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there!
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