Today felt like spring

Almost. Not quite that warm, but it was easy to imagine how wonderful it will be, soon. Time for seed sowing and planning big changes. The building project for the cottage of FeltEssentialCottage (see the "cottage" label) is underway! I'm so excited, just trying to contain it so as not to invite bad luck!

At the craft front, new challenges too. I've been mastering the art of free embroidery - it's fun!

I have Pearl Cotton, stranded floss and silk ribbons in different colors, as well as different types of needles for my first project. I've been using  a hoop for machine embroidery and it works just fine, but if I was doing traditional embroidery there wouldn't be enough tension.
It helps to sew pieces of cotton on the sides of the linen piece to make it fit the hoop better. I need to sew two more to my pieces, the top and the bottom one.

But the beginning was made! It's a bit like weaving and I think that's why I'm so drawn to it. I love the texture. Thinking of colors, how to fill in sections and how to blend stitches takes time, but is exciting.

Being busy with free embroidery, I quite neglected my stones! There is just one to be shown for all this time, almost completed and not yet named. A spring theme too.