It always warms my heart with such such joy when I'm actually able to align my good intentions, my brilliant ideas, my always seemingly scarce time, and the activity of my hands to create a gift for a loved one. It always impresses the heck out of me when I conceive of, start and FINISH said gift by the date for which it is intended. Witness the 5 year old unfinished tapestry project for my sister, the 11 year old unfinished quilt for my highschool bestie (this one I'm giving up on, I'm repurposing what has been sewn, putting the leftover fabric back in the stash and beginning a new project, again quilts, this time for her twin babies). Someday this particular sort of accomplishment will cease to be a small miracle in my life and be rather an enjoyable customary occurrence. I promise. Eventually.
And I did it! I succeeded. A few days before her birthday, no less! My dear friend Faye is mommy to two super sweet pups, and after the Yule stitching for my mom I wanted to try my hand at working off of a photograph rather than a woodblock print, so I figured this would be a perfect project! Happy Birthday dearest!
It was super fun. The only trick is in deciding what level of detail and which lines of contour to choose to trace from the photo. I'm pretty in love still with my diy light table of tracing on the window. Come winter though, I'll have to plan around the few hours of daylight midday to trace a project! The stitching itself is tied with the gifting for the prize of Jasmine's-favorite-part-of-the-process.
Oh, I've got so many ideas for more! If you're as totally in love with this idea as I am, I encourage you to grab some fabric, thread, embroidery hoop, tracing pencil and photo and get started! If you're not the crafty type but you are as in love with this idea as I am; contact me in the comments, I'd love to do custom work (and promise a firm and reasonable delivery date!) for you.
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