This is a nap-in-progress. But Andy keeps wiggling his toes. I thought it had been a long while since Lucy visited the blog.
These are a couple of studies? I guess that’s what you call them. I really loved the way my piece for the MIA Foot in the Door show turned out (there’s a little teaser of that in a previous post), so I started these two little variations on that theme. They are each about 6 inches tall. Machine pieced and then hand embroidered. These are very much “in progress”, I haven’t even washed out the marker guidelines for the embroidery. I will finish them by making a tiny quilt although I haven’t decided whether or not to finish them at this petite size or add a border of something neutral and have this piece in the center, maybe even extending the embroidery to the edge of the border. They are just hanging out until I decide what to do with them.
Then, I have been working on a new embroidery pattern for my etsy shop. I have had a couple of requests for mermaids. I love mermaids, so it’s an easy request for me. Here’s the almost finished pattern page – two mermaids, a merboy, kelp, fish, a whelk and sea turtles. I found a t-shirt at Target yesterday which has ocean waves silkscreened all over it – I think I will have to add a mermaid.