I saw some beautiful work on an appliqued table runner by Calamity Kim and while I couldn’t hope to match it without devoting a year of my life to it, I was inspired to make something mushroomy and house-y with raw edged applique and freehand machine embroidery.
This bird is my favorite part of the machine embroidery I think, some of it is really awful. But that’s what I get when I don’t do any planning or sketching, and just stitch – really wonky stitch tension, and a broad spread of accidental awesome to ick.
When I started out, my goal was a skirt. By the time I was done with the applique, I didn’t think it really looked like a skirt anymore. But I forged ahead anyway, even though I’d put mushroom roots down past the hem line and birds up past the elastic casing fold line. Obviously I should have done a little more planning than “don’t get too close to the edges.” Because that didn’t work so well. But whatever. I used the ribbon hem binding from the oliver+s lazy days skirt pattern. That may have been why I secretly wanted to make a skirt, just so I could try out that ribbon binding, it’s so cool.
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Add Yours →That skirt is too cute! I think I’d like an adult version for myself! I love the big red mushroom. I’ve also been anxious to try the ribbon binding from the oliver + s lazy days skirt – very cool.
love this picture of rebecca! hey, i’ve noticed you are posting more often than once a week… great! i love your blog, and not just for the pics of R. i am loving your creativity… it’s fun to watch. i liked the comment you got that one person reads your blog like others read travel books… just for fun. that’s cool. congrats and love, jennifer
The skirt is so cute. Love that mushroom.