Blocks 3 and 4

August has this little teapot toy that she got for Christmas and she loves it. She loves the songs that it plays and "dances" to it. So I had to incorporate it into my sampler. I may go back and put faces on the cup and teapot just like the toy has. I'm not sure yet.

The songs are really catchy and I find myself singing them all the time in a british accent of course! But what's even funnier is hearing big bad biker daddy singing them!

Block 2....I'm not in love

One of August's many nicknames is Littles. She is Littles and Luke is Bigs. I think it's so cute so I wanted to add it in one of my squares but to tell you the truth I am not really loving this square. I kind of want to rip it out and try again but I am afraid of what that would do to the fabric. Any thoughts?

Crisis averted

Phew! It dried and all of the purple splotches did eventually disappear. Thank goodness! Since tis is a stitch sampler I am going to try to learn some different stitches. On the top and right side I tried the stitch called Palestrina stitch and I learned how to do it here. Not too shabby for my first try if I do say so myself.

Disappearing Ink???

Last night during Project Runway I finally got going on my piece for the Stitchalong. I decided to do 25 blocks since August was born on the 25th. It's the only number I could come up with that had some kind of meaning and made sense aesthetically. And yes, I wrote a list of different things I want to embroider in the boxes. I used a disappearing ink pen to draw out my grid and also to draw my first motif, a little bluebird.

I waited until this morning to take a picture so that I would have some sunlight. I decided to use a Q-tip and little water to get the "disappearing" ink off. And as soon as I touched the water to it the ink spread. Uh oh...

I added more water and it spread more and looked even worse...

In a total panic I took it to the sink and wet it down. It seems to be going away now but my grid is disappearing too :( I will try to take a picture of it later once it's all dry.

I want to Stitchalong

So I was checking out one of my favorite blogs, MaryJanes and Galoshes, and I saw that she is participating in Inspire Co.'s Stitchalong. I have been wanting to do some kind of stitched wall hanging for August to celebrate her birth and I think this is such a great way to do it. You stitch one 1 inch block every day. I think I will do 52 blocks, one for each week of Augie's first year. I have to play catch up today because I am a couple days behind. I am off to gather up some materials so I can get started!