Amy is on her way!

My first grand daughter in there!

A new painting, my first in a while.
I am taking an acrylics painting class at a local art league and just loving it!
Also starting to do some collage work and working in my art journal again!

Missing in action

I'm still here! I promise!

My 14 yr old daughter Isabel has just had knee surgery after she tore her ACL playing basketball.

Isabel having her dressing removed-we'll spare you the gory details!

Life has been a mess, and I have only had time to keep up with orders and check in once in a while.  She is a brave girl and I cannot believe what she has had to go through so far. And the therapy is just starting.
Meanwhile...

I have been playing with raised embroidery on wool felt whenever I can catch a moment.

I had the idea to create a wool embroidery piece for my soon-to-be-born grand daughter. My daughter is trying to put together a nursery with bright colors and a woodsy theme, so my mind  turned to the Waldorf inspired toys and rainbow palette. I have been having some fun with this!

Wool picture using a Salley Mavor pattern as a jumping off point

I will be framing this in a shadowbox type frame when completed

So that's where I've been.
 I am enjoying using the bright colors-makes me feel like spring will actually come!
 We have been having a really late winter with January type temperatures in March!
Hopefully that will end soon, I mean its almost Easter!
xx
~Annie 

Blackbird Design Exchange

I just got word that my partner Conny received my little Blackbird piece, so now I can post pics. This was a fun little stitch and a fun finish!

Buttons and Pins by Blackbird Designs

So cute! Don't you think?

xx

~Annie

Quilty Neighborhood Framed!

Quilty Neighborhood by Annie Beez Folk Art

I have to say I am really happy with the way the black frame pulls all of the black in the piece forward and tones down the yellow orange sky. The frame really added balance to this piece.

 Interesting!

xx

~Annie

A little more stumpwork

Working on this little by little in between printing and filling pattern orders.

Rose and Pomegranite design by Jane Nicholas

This is really fun and challenging!

xx

~Annie

Sneek peek on new chart!

 

 

Folk Art Flowers by Annie Beez Folk Art

 

 

This is my newest design release! It is stitched on 40 ct. Light Examplar by Lakeside Linens, using DMC. I just love this linen, the slight color variations are so pretty. This will be in my Etsy shoppe and shipping to distributors next week!

Thanks for looking!

XX

~Annie

If it ain't cross stitch...

The chances of a finish are much higher!!

This is called Her Majesty's Glove and it is from Fine Lines magazine, Vol.3,Number 2, from Fall of 1998.

Her Majesty's Glove by Nostalgic Needle, 32 ct cream linen using DMC.

It is supposed to be finished as a scissors case, but I chose to applique it to a piece of linen, and then I am going to frame it into a shadow box, just as soon as I find the right one! The hand part of the glove is ultra suede. The big flower and leaves are needle lace, also called detached buttonhole. A fun technique once you figure it out! The top middle flower is made up of queen stitches.

Next we have the stumpwork piece. This was really fun, and I am definitely going to do more of this technique! Imagine, something with the beauty and fine quality of cross stitch, but FAST! Yay! I'm im love!

Beetle and Berry by The Floss Box

I really enjoyed all of the different types of stitches. the berries are french knots and beads. The leaves are leaf stitch-which is a type of herringbone stitch. The lavendar sprays along the sides are bouillon knots using a blended needle with purple and green-so pretty! It also has stem, chain, satin  and feather stitches. I loved it!

I'm afraid my snail there looks a little bit like a blob. My hubby asked me what it was...?

 But practice makes perfect and I plan to make many more of these type of pieces! 

In fact I ordered Jane Nicholas' book on stumpwork, 

Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection of Fruits & Insects for Contemporary Raised Embroidery

which I think will come tomorrow Gotta love that Amazon prime!

 And finally, I came across this freebie on Laura J. Perin's blog. I had a piece of canvas sitting around so I worked this up in literally a day. It was really fun and something different.(for me)

Bluebells by Laura J. Perin

So thats what I've been up to, in between stitching a new cross stitch pattern model.

Thanks for stopping by!

xx

~Annie