For the latest tiny needle project, I decided to move onto something a little different than cross-stitching. You may remember a post a few months ago where I talked about the embroidery kits mom and I got.

I decided this weekend was the perfect time to get started. the kit comes with everything you need except the fabric you are going to embroider on. The kit suggests denim, but I wanted something a little lighter.

I decided on a solid mid-grey cotton. This is one of the bolts I keep in stock for background fabric with the quilting. As you can see, the kit also comes with the patterns printed on these genius little sticky papers. You just stick them on, stitch over top, then they dissolve away with cold water when you’re done.

Now – I did consider doing a few practice pieces first.. you know… since I’ve never really done any embroidery (the odd stitch face on a stuff doesn’t really count). But this is me, so I decided to dive right in.

Things got off to a pretty good start. My stem stitch could probably use a little work, but it wasn’t bad enough to rip it out, so I kept going. With Lemmy’s help of course!

Soon enough I had all the leaves and stems done and was already moving onto the flowers. Embroidery was definitely going faster than cross stitch!

Then I hit a snag…. the dreaded French Knot. I do have experience with the French Knot because it comes up occasionally in cross stitch. And I have NEVER been good at it. It took me a full half hour just to get these few little knots done.

And they are far from perfect…. and you can see how many more knots I have to do! Sigh…

It was going so well.

It’s going to sit in a time out this week and I’ll try again on the weekend. I will get those knots knotted if it’s the last thing I do!