I had a relaxing weekend up north with my friend, Catherine, and her mom at her mom's lovely home in the woods. There was lots of napping, Olympic watching, reading and sewing going on.
We had lots of fun watching their 3 (or 4) hummingbirds fighting for the feeder.
And I finished this sublime stitching embroidery pattern (from the Craft Pad) while I was there and turned it into a tea towel this afternoon. I was a little burnt out on embroidery after my stitchette mania last winter, but it's so much fun to break out the bright thread and play around with color combos.
Beautiful!
Posted by: Whitney Crane | 18 August 2008 at 07:05 PM
Funny, this weekend I had taken a few hummingbird pictures as well! Your photo turned out really well.
Posted by: Taryn | 18 August 2008 at 07:25 PM
beautiful color combos! here's my conundrum each time--which do you pick first? the embroidery/needlepoint yarn/thread OR the fabric that will make it a completed pillow/towel/whatever? usually, i'm a thread-first, all-caution-to-the-wind kind of girl, but this last time, i picked fabric first. we'll see how that goes.
Posted by: abcgirl | 18 August 2008 at 09:30 PM
Very pretty. I like the colors you used.
Posted by: Oiyi | 18 August 2008 at 10:13 PM
that tea towel is very pretty. the colors are so bright. sounds like you had a great time!
Posted by: priscilla | 18 August 2008 at 10:46 PM
That sounds like a great, relaxing weekend! I love that tea towel, if only my embroidery was worth showing to others--I need a little more practice time!
Posted by: jessica | 19 August 2008 at 08:07 AM
such a happy embroidery piece!
and i just love that shot of the hummingbird - great bokeh!
Posted by: amy | 19 August 2008 at 12:25 PM
What adorable embroidery! The more pictures of these I see the more I want to buy some of these. But how well do they hold up in the regular laundry? Maybe it's sacrilegious to talk about using embroidered towels, but I'm not much into things that just sit around! At any rate, the colors are great. I love the blue you chose for the birds!
Posted by: Amy | 19 August 2008 at 08:14 PM
I'd love to get to see real hummingbirds. They are just the stuff of documentaries here. The embroidery looks beautiful, and the love birds are definitely darling.
Posted by: Amy | 21 August 2008 at 04:28 AM
your embroidery is wonderful! such pretty colors you chose.
Posted by: amandajean | 21 August 2008 at 01:03 PM