Carson Ellis

 

I must admit I had never heard of Carson Ellis before I bought the oh so cute Sublime Stitching Pattern designed by her. I love the Russian Bird design and the shirt I embroidered it on is one of my favourites. Anyway I found out that Carson does lots of illustrations for the Decemberists (her husbands band, I like their music, bought the cd) and on Flickr I found this lovely work of art  ( the bear picture) which I adore. 

So when I received my copy of The mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart the other day  I was happy to learn that the book was illustrated (not the cover I just realised just the book itself) by Carson too, so Carson is all over the house now! Looking forward to reading that book by the way, even though I'm pretty sure it's not written (only) for grown ups. :)

O.k. a totally unrelated afterthought: I came across this story on Craftfail (yep a website for all your failed attempts at crafting)yesterday and I laughed until I cried, it was so funny! Maybe it will make you smile too.

Wearable embroidery

What is better than being able to combine the thing you love to do (embroidery) with something practical (wear the embroidery)? Next time I would rather embroider on a skirt or something I think, the t-shirt fabric was quite difficult to stitch on. That's why I look so worn out and tired on the photo probably. ;)

The birdie design is from the awesome pattern sheet Carson Ellis designed for Sublime Stitching. I'll blog some more about her artwork soon!

Another Love Bird

As my proper drawing and art supplies are right at the bottom of a 3 meter high stack of boxes and my scanner hasn't been found yet there is no progress on my Pattern making activities. Maybe if I started unpacking boxes and stopped blogging (read: moaning) about all the things I can't find the problem would soon be solved. I did find the Art Deco Polar Bear and the Garlic press by the way. Anyway last night I started a little project to keep my hands busy. It's another awesome Sublime Stitching pattern (by Carson Ellis this time) which I transferred on an old T-shirt. The T-shirt had a stain so I was going to throw it out but I thought why not try to embroider it and make it The Most Awesome T-shirt Ever! It's quite difficult to embroider on this fabric (even with stabliser) so I only use a simple back stitch here. The banner says Love in Russian by the way. At least that's what Amy told me and I totally believe her of course! Check out her lovely version of this pattern!