Recovering an armchair - Part 2

Little Imp's armchair is complete, with little matching pillows.  What fun I've had.  Check back to Recovering an Armchair Part One for the chair used to look like.  I ended up replacing only the bits in green - the front skirt, arm rests and a piece under the main cushion & kept the original white of the old chair cover for the rest.  The embellishing is made up of a combination of free form machine embroidery, Heat-&-Bond iron on adhesive to attach fabric pieces, hand stitching, felt & buttons.

But for now I might just let the pictures do the talking.

Little flowers and bugs hide at the base of the tree under the cushions & Sullfok puff flowers grow on the wings

Fabric embroidered birds on a ribbon wire with bright buttons & flowers

Applique and free form machine embroidery toadstools and flowers on the front skirt

A hand stitched tree & machine embroidered flowers on the armrest 

Felt embroidered circles & fabric owls on ribbon 

A line of elephants

Two Little Owls

I love owls in designs.  Finding a lovely owl print fabric on ebay has inspired a few variations of the 'owl on a branch' applique design.  Whipped up a few more of these baby grows yesterday as a de-stressor after a very trying weekend of screaming child.

The Beginning

Craft something inspiring.


Create something new.

Capture something on camera.

A year at home in the new role of looking after a little one leads to new ways of maintaining sanity. There has to be an outlet somehow, and for me I have returned to creating and crafting whenever I have a spare moment.  The capturing of images in photographs has become a little more portrait focused with a baby around, and improvements could be made.  The crafting has also largely taken on a baby focus with the creation of designs for appliqueing on clothes for all the little ones I know.  But there are other ideas and projects to be made as well, and time to enjoy craft and time with my best-est 'hootchie' girlfriends too.

My aim in this endeavour of joining the world of blogging is more for me than anyone else.  A place to store my ideas and completed projects in one place instead of on sticky notes, jotted on random scraps of paper or just forgotten.  A place to reflect on what I've done in the past and maybe even a place to be inspired to begin something new.

One of my first applique creations