Little Cloth Book - Cottage - feeling happier

                                       I made a few little adjustments .

                                            Feeling happier now !

                 

Little Cloth Book Cottage - a change of plan

  Not really a change of plan , because there is no plan , I,m making this up as I go  .

 I decided to unpick the "take a deep breath " .
I felt that the cottage needed more space , so I took a deep breath  , a pair of scissors and snippety snip , I pulled it all out !
              Now I,m not sure about the Home Sweet Home  ?
                     Anyway , to begin with , I want more blue sky !

 So I gave myself a very meditative hour, stitching a big blue sky .

Little Cloth Book Cottage Page - progress

                          Here I go putting in too much detail again .... lol !

Little Cloth Book Cottage

 
I embroidered this last year .  It is our little Cornish cottage where we have been happy for many years .

 I thought I might embroider it again , for a page in my little cloth book .

 I sketched it onto the cloth with a pencil and this time I am using my favourite Appleton's crewel wool .

I am terrible for always trying to put too much detail in to my pictures. I need this to be much simpler , because it is so much smaller than my original embroidered picture .

I am showing off this sweet little padded purse that I found on Ebay Uk from "madebyjerryiow" it is perfect for my little embroidery scissors .
 I can thread a ribbon  through the ring and wear it as a pendant around my neck , so they are always close to hand and I wont get stabbed by their sharp points .
                  I love the bee so much too !

Another Page for My Little Cloth Book

                                  Another page for  my little cloth book  .

                       Simple happy go lucky stitches and cheerful colours .

                     Happiness is stitching with Perle/Pearl cotton threads !

                                             Be happy go lucky !
                                      I might embroider that next !

Be love - another page for my little cloth book finished

  Sunday was such a frantic day working in my vegetable garden , it's all go , go , go  now ! 
   I,ve been planting out beans , courgettes and cabbages . Making space in the potting shed for the tomatoes and cucumbers .
   Hardly any time to sit and sew , but I managed to finish another page for my little cloth book .

 Doves by tradition usually bring an Olive branch . This dove knows that I prefer cherries !

Be love - another page for my little cloth book

                         Saturday stitching - So next I chose " Be love "

 I embroidered over the words with green thread and then wondered for a long time , about what I should do next .
        I felt that I should  keep this very simple and uncluttered .

I lightly sketched on a dove carrying an olive branch , a symbol of peace and love everywhere .

 I used my own design , that I had embroidered before on this felt heart .

I used DMC Pearl cotton thread no 8 to stitch the  outline and then DMC cotton embroidery thread to fill in with satin stitch . I used all six threads , as it pulls off the skein , to make it nice and chunky and to stand out against the cream linen .

I had an relaxing afternoon sitting in the garden in the warm sunshine , slowly stitching my dove .
 Other people on the Facebook group have finished their little books, some are saying they have done three already ! I look at the photos they are sending in and they are so lovely ! I just don't know how they can do them so fast !
  I just couldn't get going on mine , I thought about it and thought about it and had a few false starts , which I felt were rubbish , it was as if I was hitting a brick wall .
  I was reassured that there was no deadline and the idea is to just enjoy the process of stitching from the heart and turn it into a little treasure book for yourself .
 I am going to embroider my  little cloth book and hopefully find some little treasured scraps , beads and buttons to add later on .

                  Anyway , I am loving making my little cloth book now .

                                    I might finish this page  tomorrow .

                                          Love and Peace to you !