Sew Cute!

This was my big piece for competition at our recent art show. I did this large, 30"x40" collage with vintage fabrics, hand embroidery with wool yarn, and odds and ends from my stash. I dyed the wool felt for her hair, and painted the muslin for her face and hands. I wanted a really primitive, naive style for this one....entitled "The Stitcher"....with the "Sew Cute" wording on the front. She is holding an actual embroidery hoop, with "I heart stitching" embroidered on it. The tape measure, thread spool, and pattern paper wrapped with thread are from my old tin of sewing stuff. Her eyelashes are dyed elastic snippets! Her eyes are deep turquoise velvet, and her wonky dress is an old piece of dyed wool. The buttons are from my great grandmothers stock from her "General Store" where I used to get bags of candy as a child. The flowers are also old stock, vintage silks with darling pompom centers!

This is a sentimental piece for me, and I am keeping it. But, I am going to offer this style as a portrait for children, or young at hearts, as a custom in my Etsy shop.
And....She won first place for needlecraft!

Just wanted to share.....:)

Thinking about Supplies...What Do You All Think?

I've had an Etsy shop for almost a year, selling my art & clothing designs. I've been on Ebay and Lollishops for a few momths as well. Lately I've been thinking about opening another Etsy shop to sell some supplies. I love old paper and other ephemera I find and I've seen alot of shops doing well with it. I would like to find neat thrift stuff that could be used for crafting, etc. so I thought this might be a good recycling idea. Hey! comment here if you do this, or are into using recycled stuff in crafting. I'll let you guys know when my new/ old shop opens! Here is something I stumbled across this week... I thought it would be neat collage stuff.