A House Full of Embroidery

I did some sewing room rearranging recently.  Part of it happened during my fabric purge for my second quilt retreat;  part was to make room for my vintage blue sewing machine.  One result was I had to find a new place for my embroidery.  Before I show you where that moved to, I have two more embroidery finishes to show you.  They are both going into my Juvenile Embroidery Book.

Hobby horse.  A new term I learned; I didn't know what they were called.

This is the inspiration fabric that will be on the back of the previous page.  I'll have to orient it differently - rotate 90 degrees to the right.

Looks like French knots on the feet, but it's a satin stitch.  The knot didn't completely cover the circle transfer marking and it looked kind of icky to have knobby things sticking out on the bottom of the poor kitty's feet!  Now there's a nice soft, smooth stitch.

 Now you can see why I used such crazy colors.  They tone down a lot when next to the inspiration fabric.

I moved the embroidery project to my Wolverine metal dollhouse.  The upstairs library has the finished pages.  The downstairs living room has my embroidery books.  That top one is by Mary Engelbreit and it has some very interesting designs in a style other than what she is known for.  I'm looking forward to pulling that out one of these days.  But for now, I'm on a roll with my vintage preprinted panels.

The upstairs bedroom has the inspiration fabric for the next six blocks.  The kitchen has the unfinished blocks.  Since there are a total of twenty eight blocks, I'm looking forward to more shopping bit by bit.  No hurry, since this is a long-term project.  It's been taking me one to two weeks per block.  My goal is to finish by the end of the year.