Happy Independence Day!

 

In celebration of The United States Independence Day, also known as my favorite holiday ever, I made this embroidery. I am proud to be an American, I have been very blessed to live in this great country and to have been raised by an amazing family. I am very grateful for my freedom of religion and for all of those who fight for this country. Happy 4th of July!

 

This is basically a blog with pictures of embroidery, also . . . I am going on a mission!

 

Well of course I needed a Summer embroidery to put up in my tiny house, so I chose this one out of all of the many choices. I like it alright, but I feel like I could have chosen a better design. Oh well, it is done and there to stay.

 

 

I received my LDS mission call to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Mission! This is my depiction of what my life will be like for the next two winters. Notice in the window of the store it says "beer" and "cheese". The only thing I forgot in this picture was a red barn, how could I leave that out?

 

 

 

Dreamcatcher

Okay this was SOOooo fun to make. I found a stick outside that was pretty bendable, and then I soaked it in water for about 2 days to make it more bendable. Then I wrapped embroidery floss around it to keep the two ends together and to keep the flimsy stick all together. Then I did the inside part with embroidery floss. And then I added thin strings on to the bottom and attached beads and glitter feathers that I found at michaels. And last but not least I sprayed it down with a coat of silver glitter and hung it on my door. 

My great great great grandma, who I am named after, was Native American. So that means that I am one thirty second Native American. So I can totally make and have dream catchers right? I should probably find out the authentic way to make a dreamcatcher. "The Authentic Dreamcatcher" post may or may not be on its way.

Spring

This wreath is made of coffee filters and a wreath form, both of which were one dollar at Dollar Tree. Isn't 2 dollars awesome for a wreath and a fun spring craft? I just hot glued 150 coffee filters onto the wreath form and then added a bow. Don't let it fool you though, it took a while.

Here is a spring embroidery that I have also done.

2D Design Projects

These are all of the major projects for my 2D design class.

This project focussed on line, this is done with charcoal.

This project focussed on shape, this was done with spray paint and acrylic. The words, background, sun, and clouds are all spray paint, and the house and balloons are acrylic. This project was due right after I sprained my wrist snowboarding and so I had to use the spray paint with my left hand which is a lot harder than you would think.

This project was on value. I used India ink on muslin cloth and I did a different big city from each continent except Antarctica. Left to right top; New York, London, Tokyo, bottom; Rio De Janeiro, Johannesburg, Sydney.

This project was on texture and I did it right after I got the splint off of my wrist from when I sprained it, so my wrist was extremely sore from doing this project. I did water color on a paper bag. I got the paper bag from buying dry ice with which we made root beer, therefore I painted root beer on the bag. Also the texture word that I had to represent was frothy. To make the root beer look frothy I used embroidery floss and tied about a billion french knots, normally that is not a problem, but it is a lot harder to get a needle and thread through a strong brown paper bag . . . especially when your wrist is sprained. So I got close to no sleep that night due to all of the embroidering. 

This project was the most fun thing in the world. This was my final project so I had to follow the topic the unknown and I had to use a principle of color and three principles of design. When people say "the unknown" usually the first thing that pops into people's heads is fear and darkness, so I wanted to change that image of the unknown. So I took three things that are very unknown; Big Foot, The Loch Ness Monster, and Aliens, and made them fun and friendly and childlike. I painted them all with acrylic paint on canvas. 

By the way if anybody wants any of these things, especially the alien, nessie, or bigfoot, please please let me know. I have no use for them and would feel bad throwing them away. The unknown project could go in a child's bedroom or playroom. 

P.S. Don't ask for the Adventure is out there paintings because I reused them for the unknown project.

Hello Cold Days

Made this out of three almond roca wrappers the day after Christmas, because I was bored. 

I love embroidery. I found the picture of these mittens online, added the words, printed it off and copied it onto the cloth, then I embroidered it, and WaLa!

Christmas Embroidery

Embroidery

Stand in Holy Places

Rapunzel
Sorry the picture is sideways.