Works In Progress

I have three new hand embroidery projects to share. Two are actually in progress and one is still in the planning stages.  
First up is this sleeping fox.  
These motifs are from my Sly Fox pattern set.  I combined a few border motifs with the fox and text of "sleep little fox".  I have just gotten started on part of the border and the fox's tail:

I am also working on this beautiful horse.  This motif is from my I Love Horses embroidery pattern set.  I am working the mane with Double Knot Stitch and Stem Stitch.  So far for colors I have a lot of pink, purples and I am thinking of adding a few shades of mint green:

The project in planning is something for the Fourth of July...

I will be sure to keep posting my progress on these three projects!

Horse With A Flower Crown

I have another completed project!  It is this beautiful horse with a flower crown. 

I stitched this from my I Love Horses embroidery pattern:

I like these flower corners - I used the stem stitch, lazy daisy stitch, French knots and straight stitches:

For her mane, I used the stem stitch:

For the ribbon on the flower crown, I used the split stitch:

I am really happy with the way this turned out! 

Here are the colors and floss numbers I used:

Owl Project

Since my last post on this owl embroidery, I have taken out the back stitching I used on the leaves and switched to a blanket stitch.  I like it so much better.  Filling in the entire leaf with lines of back stitch were making the leaf too dense and lumpy looking.  To me, this blanket stitch looks just right!

I have quite a few projects going at the moment, it is fun to have a variety of subjects to stitch!

I Love Horses!

I have a new embroidery pattern set available in my Etsy shop.  It is called I Love Horses!

This set has 11 pages of beautiful and feminine horse themed motifs. 

 The motifs work really well together to make up so many different scenes.  These can be embroidered, and they can be used for appliques.  They are also such fun coloring pages :)

I have started two projects already - first this pretty horse portrait with flower corners:

 and second, this fancy horse with a really big mane: 

   Here is a look at the pattern packet - so perfect for horse lovers!