Here is a new embroidery I just finished, another random, stream of consciousness type design. thanks for looking!

I made these dolls from felt and call them Lolly Dollies cause they look like lollypops with their big heads.

this is Lottie, Kitti and Pinki...

and Lydia, Saturn and Sophie

I made this guy based on my clay NOM figures I make, he is completely hand sewn from felt. My husband even has "claimed" him so I think he must be pretty cool.

This is the last in my series of 'childhood heroes' embroidery portraits, Bob Ross. <3



Here are all of them together, Crystal Gayle, Shel Silverstein, Jacques Cousteau, Bob Ross


I suppose I was an odd sort of child...

here's my set of felt nesting doll hand/finger puppets! they are so fun to make, and to play with.





lots more pics at my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/merwing/

lots of my embroidery starts out that way. I do a lot of tiny, random drawings in my sketchbook and many of them turn into embroidery. This one's called Growing. I wish spring was here.

I made some embroidered buttons with my button machine for the Samper! I think they came out cute, and look so pretty together.

Howdy Craftsters. This is Leah, the Craftster admin. I know some of y'all have been expressing concerns that this post borders on breaking the "no advertising" rule. But I think that since merwing is a long standing active member here on Craftster, it's AOK by me for her to share her big achievement here. -- Leah

(Thank you Leah!)

It's finally arrived! My embroidery book, Doodle Stitching: Fresh and Fun Embroidery for Beginners is now available and I am soooo excited to share it with you! It's full of lots of fun projects, patterns and ideas to incorporate hand embroidery into your life. Here are some sneak peaks, I would love to hear what you think! 


(visit my flickr for bigger pics...www.flickr.com/photos/merwing)

Here's my latest finished embroidery art. It's called "thinking." It was fun because I kinda made a lot of it up as I went along.


(edit) book cover was removed per craftster rules. 

here's a new embroidery I've finished. I worked on this one for months off and on. I think it turned out pretty good. I like the butterfly ears especially.

I know a couple of you are interested...my book has gone to print!! I'm excited to see it out. It's called Doodle Stitching. I'll keep ya updated.