camping clothespin bag II

i'm a little bit thrilled with how this clothespin bag came out...and how well the pictures that i took of it this morning turned out too. thank goodness for sunlight at last! now to package it up and send it off to my sister for her birthday!


i you click on any of the images, it will show you a much larger version. i've been able to show a lot of detail in the different kinds of stitches so just go ahead and click your little heart out.


on the canoe, i made use of a new stitch i've just learned: the backstitch. it's fairly easy to nail and it is a pretty one but the amount of floss that ends up on the back side of it just made my economically thrifty heart skip a beat!


here i've mostly used a split stitch and then a straight stitch for the grass. i had a fun time using different thicknesses of floss to try and give the vignettes some depth of field. i guess this is what you get when a trained photographer/painter takes up embroidery...o dear.


um, i just want to say that i kind of LOVE the way the stem stitch works perfectly for flames.


and last but not least, a detail of the fish on the back where i used the split stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, backstitch, and a couple french knots.

it was nice to try a few different designs than i'd done for the last one i made and i was excited to be able to use the metallic silver floss for some of the fishing rod details. that stuff comes out beautiful but i'll admit that trying to thread a needle with it ended up in a slurry of language not appropriate for this little ole blog!

just a peek

it's been a bit rainy and dreary here lately which means no lovely daylight with which to take photos in. the photography student in my cringes while posting flash photos here but hopefully tomorrow i can get a few good shots and show you the whole thing.

the above embroidery is part of a second camping clothespin bag that i've made for my sister's birthday. sounds like an exciting present right?! well, she and her boyfriend are serious back country canoers/campers so for them it will be: they are just sickeningly fit and adventurous folks and brought back some great photos from their climb of Mt. Katahdin this past summer. i, on the other hand, just have an l.l.bean mummy bag named after Mt. Katahdin...

for their bag, i changed up the color scheme, pulled some different designs from the sublime stitching transfer pack, changed the dimensions of the bag itself, and even added another stitch to my repatoire: the backstitch (some of which you can see on the fish's back fin, above). not too bad for a slightly rushed project! crossing my fingers that the sun shines tomorrow so i can share some proper photos of the whole thing with you! it's pretty snazzy if i do say so myself ;)