Nothing special really. But I just love it when something that was stored away forever finds its use.
This small lilac and roses cross stitch I embroidered ages ago when I was probably fifteen. It was kept in a drawer together with the old embroideries made by my grandma, my mom and her sisters. Then one morning there was an idea, couple of hours of sewing and voilà!
Adding a little bit of silk on the sides to accommodate the right size, it is a perfect cushion cover now.
Working on a very elaborate embroidery with over 130 colors at the moment , I look at that naive simple pattern and think how my love for embroidery stays with me for my whole live. It does not go away, it only gets stronger.
Ничего особенного, просто моя очень давняя вышивка превратилась в наволочку для небольшой подушки. Я думаю мне было лет пятнадцать, когда я ее вышила.
Пришлось добавить немного шелка по бокам, пару часов за швейной машинкой – и наволочка готова.
Voilà! То что я больше всего люблю – когда что-то, что хранилось в шкафу много-много лет вдруг нашло своё применение.
A detail of my unfinished work – silk embroidery on a knitted sweater. My sweater is hand knit but the wool I used is for machine knitting and very fine and thin. The silk I used for this embroidery I pulled out of silk ribbons, so it is as thin as a hair.
This project is an old one, more than fifteen years I believe. I’ve started it while still living in Ukraine. When I married and moved to the States in 1999, I left my unfinished embroidery behind.
Several years ago on one of her stay-with-us-for-a-few-months visit, my mom brought it to me in Hong Kong. She said that she really liked it and I should finish it.
… it might be the time.
Remember my Chinese girl embroidery? It took me a while to think and search for a frame for it. Since finding a decent vintage (not even talking about antique) frame in HK is not an easy task, I finally took it to the frame shop I always deal with. After trying and visualizing ten or more frame samples I made my choice – black with some vintage looking gold.
Few days later I brought the framed embroidery home. Not realizing at first what was the reason, I anticipated for many days to put it on the wall. Finally I was ready to admit, I didn’t like the frame.
Here how it looks with its black framing.
After a week or so on a separate visit to the same frame shop, my sixth sense took over, ignoring a thought of been nosy, I ventured to the back of the shop. There several old frames that for their own reason were left behind, kept accumulating dust over the years. It was my (or the frame) faith. I knew since the first glance – the embroidery is going to be re-framed.
My embroidery is back to the shop today.
Here is a quick photo of the frame.
All I can say now, I cannot wait to hang it on the wall.
All the stockings for my family have been made by now. This one is for my son and the last I’ve planed to make before this Christmas. I’m very happy how this stocking turned out.
Maybe one more Christmas project if I’m lucky to have enough time for it.
У всех в моей семье теперь есть рождественский носок. Я очень довольна как этот для Ильи получился, поэтому так много фото. Есть идея еще одного проекта до Рождества, если смогу найти время, конечно.
My latest embroideries are hung on the book shelf and waiting to be either framed or made into Christmas stockings.
Мои последние вышитые работы в ожидании дальнейшего ‘оформления’.
And then there were some sewing.
For backing up stockings, I don’t like using felt fabric that usually provided with the needlepoint kit. I think it looks cheap. So my choice for the backing of the stocking was dark blue cotton velvet same as for Alfred’s stocking. I also make lining for all my Christmas stockings. For these two I used thing blue cotton fabric.
Here it is:
***I still have to sew Illya’s Christmas stocking. But for that I’ll need to make a trip to the fabric district to get some fabric for the lining.
Пару часов на шитье и мой рождестенский носок готов. Для задней стенки носка я использовала тёмно-синий велюр на х/б основе и тонкий хлопок для подкладки. Осталось сшить носок Ильи. Придется съездить в район где продают ткани, чтобы выбрать ткань для подкладки, а для задней стенки – снова велюр, только в этот раз он будет темно-красным.
