I have been itching to do some more embroidery, and have also been inspired by a lot of vintage graphics lately. I have lots of ideas mashing up in my brain, but I thought I'd show you my first attempt - an embroidered collage (well, that's what I'm calling it). By a happy coincidence, I managed to find some embroidery hoops and frames in charity shop a couple of weeks ago, which gave me a nice little format to work in.
This frame is actually a kind of flexible plastic, rather than wood, but I think I'll use the favourite Etsy term, "faux bois" to describe it. Yep, that's it - 'an embroidered collage in a faux bois frame'. I'm looking forward to making more.
Luckily, I found some more hoops and frames at a flea market this weekend. The lovely sewing lady there also had big bags of vintage buttons for 50p each. I bought four, and I told her I'd have fun going through them. I did!
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Ooh, buttons!
Fantastic post. Love the embroidery, sooooo different. The photo of the clear buttons is wonderful. You must have been in seventh heaven going through the bags!
Fun!! I just joined a little embroidery sampler challenge here on one of the blogs. We are making one little square a day for over a month. I am behind, as I just joined, so I am trying to do multiple squares a day for the next week or so to catch up. My first post on it will go up day after tomorrow... by then I Hope to have severl squares done, so it won't look like I'm as far behind as I really am. :-)
Love the embroidery and the buttons :)
Oooh lovely!
I want one!!!
Great embroidery idea and fabulous button haul - lucky you! Bargain!
your collage in a faux bois frame is delightful, i love it , and your button haul is ace , have you seen the button picture in lulu guinness's house?
http://mirrormirror.typepad.com/mirror_mirror/2009/10/pearly-kings-and-queens.html
I got some clear button too , i'm going to use them in one of my glass mosaics....
Your embroidery's gorgeous . And in such a grand frame too !
As for the buttons ? Humph , is all I have to say about that .
You are so lucky...it seems there is so much more vintage sewing stuff around England than we have in the US...at least my neck of the woods. Although I have been banned from looking for any by my housemates for awhile...
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