I jazzed up some thrift store pants with a tiki stencil i made and some embroidery.
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Hi. I wanted to show y'all the sewing basket i reconstructed for my sister for christmas. We agreed to exchange gifts with a sideshow-carnival theme.
Here's what it looked like before

and the ugly inside

And after ripping apart embrodering and stenciling and trying to figure out how to put it back together

and the inside

I'm kind of proud of it, although i would give myself more time to figure out how to put all back together if i did it again.

Here is a Mark 5 diving helmet (the really oldschool kind) i stenciled for my bf.

it's kind more complicated than i would have liked but i'm just figuring gimp out.
edited because my finger slipped

So after seeing the felt beads tutorial, i had to try. Here they are. What chu think?

 
i felted embroidery floss into some and embroidered others.


i also tried felting one color inside anther,inside another I like how it turned out.

I recieved from norsegoebel last night. I love packages in the mail!
She sent a sweet squid mirror compact, an octopus guy, and a ship-sinking squid clock.
thanks so much!
i was hard to get a good shot of the clock, because of glare

I made this for my friend jenny who loves teen witch and has probably seen it at least 30 times.
Oh, wait... what's that below the stencil? Did Robin Lively, who plays Louise, sign that shirt to Jenny? Is Jenny going to pee her pants when i send this, and the picture i got with Robin Lively when she came to the midnight showing of Teen witch, to her?
My sources say yes.

I got a whole in one of my favorite sweaters. So i fixed it. I might even like it better now.


I cut the swallow shap out of felt, covered the hole and embroidered.

 and a close up

I'm pretty proud, this is the longest embroidery project so far for me.

deniem cowboy shirt + sports team t-shirt.

I was trying to figure out what an easy but good looking way to put a dollarsign on the back would be. I didn't want to stencil it 'cause i think the ink wouldn't take evenly on all 3 surfaces. What do you all think?

I guess this is really more embellished than reconstructed. I took a lee cowboy shirt, appliqued an image from another shirt to it and embroidered flowers and a butterfly a la Ferdinand the Bull.

since  i'm a fan of the band and the bourbon i embroidered this on my sweatshirt.
 

it's the biggest embroidery project i've done yet. I'm not completly happy with it but it gave me a chance to try some new-to-me stitches.