Thursday 26 January 2012

Guest Blogger – My Daughter Lucy

My daughter Lucy made me and others in the family some beautiful cross stitch and embroidered presents this Christmas and so I thought I would use a bit of nepotism and make her my Guest Crafter for today …..
cross stitch initial H
I just do not have any patience with sewing, especially cross stitch and embroidery, to be honest my eyes are rubbish and I can barely thread a needle without my tongue hanging out and going cross eyed …..
crosstitch birds
….. and then if I get any further all my crisp material and threads start to look grubby and crumpled within seconds!
cross stitch bird
But as you can see Lucy doesn’t share any of my foibles!
crossstitch notebook
Even her gift tags were cross stitched.
cross stitch tag
She treated herself to this book on doodle stitching by Aimee Ray and some of the stuff she has done already is just beautiful, I am so jealous!
Doodle Stitching
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doodle-Stitching-Collection-Aimee-Ray/dp/1600595812
Ribbon rosettes
…. And I almost forgot these ribbon corsages!

7 comments:

KraftyKaren said...

Beautiful work - she has obviously inherited a creative gene from you.

Karen x

Lou said...

Hehe, was going to say she must have inherited the creative gene, What wonderful gift to receive from your daughter, something to treasure, they are gorgeous, I like to cross stitch, but never seem to find the time anymore. Hugs Lou x

Paula said...

Beautiful work from your daughter Helen, so detailed and neat. I am very impressed! Like you I do many things but cross-stitch and embroidery are not my thing. I did have a dream last week that I was doig this really detailed cross-stitch and was really into it... very strange!

marc said...

Lucy has some some lovely little works of heirloom art there they are real keep sakes you should journal a little bit about them when they were done and by who these are the sort of things that become part of your heritage you could even make a paper bag journal to keep them in and ask Lucy to do something for the cover i love the bird cages so you thanks for showing Lucy's art work big love Marc

Nicky Stevenson said...

Lovely cross stitching - this is something I fancy doing at some point and this is great inspiration. Wonderful work Lucy.

lonidan said...

What lovely stitching your daughter has done. Things to treasure forever. Louise xx

tilly said...

all the projects are so pretty,I'm sure they will be treasured, well done Lucy
Tilly