Embroidered & Embellished book review...

This is one excellent book.

Christen Brown's book is #1, beautiful and #2, well written with great pictures and excellent directions. Her compositions are fabulous. She is an amazing and skillful artist. I hope to meet her someday. I'll have to take one of her classes when I visit my son in S.Cal. If you are an embellisher / embroiderer you want this book for your reference library for sure.
http://christenbrown.com/about/gallery/embroidery/index.html
Published by C&T Publishing, they put out really worthwhile books.
http://www.ctpub.com/

Work in Progress...Sewing Kit

Venice lace added, left. Beads added to chevron stitch, right.

 I am taking part in Work in Progress Wednesday at Sharon B's Pintangle http://pintangle.com/wip-wednesdays-faq/. This is my project I'm reporting on. It is a sewing kit and will be available in my Etsy shop, Crazyvictoriana.etsy.com. Sharon has a lot of great ideas. It's fun to see other peoples' projects and progress.

I really like the Venice lace piece I bought in Etsy; Cathyscrazybydesign.

Beads added to the hand embroidery on the pocket.

Small beads added to the french knots.

Crazy quilt, art quilt, vintage sewing notions...

I'm working on a crazy quilt to showcase vintage sewing notions.

I got this vintage half doll and card with hook and eyes from one of my favorite Etsy shops https://www.etsy.com/shop/MissIvyVintage. The half doll was made to be used as a decorative element on a pin cushion or what have you.

Silk Yo-Yo's

I whipped up a lot of Yo-Yo's last night,silk, tulle,cotton.

Interviewing...deciding on where they should go.

This I like, beads and vintage buttons will be added too.

Napa Valley for Inspiration,

Road trip to Napa Valley yesterday..

Castello di Amorosa, we took the tour

 Our road trip to Napa was refreshing and exciting, from agriculture to architecture, magnificent. We toured the Castello di Amorosa, a reproduction of a medieval castle surrounded by 30 acres of vineyards. It is located in Calistoga, Ca, north of St. Helena and Napa.I highly recommend the tour, castellodiamorosa.com.

Beautiful vineyards in spring

New Sewing Kit progress..

Hand embroidery added, beading next...

 I have beads to add and silk Yo-Yos, vintage mother of pearl buttons maybe some tulle....I have a vintage jewelery finding I'm considering... interviewing, this is the fun part.

Grape vine; stem stitch, french knots & lazy daisys

I'm also working on this sewing kit as part of a "mini challenge" in Sharon's Pintangle Work-in-Progress Wednesday ; http://pintangle.com/category/projects/work-in-progress-wednesdays/ .I post my progress on Wednesday's and discuss ideas or issues, always fun.

Happy Easter...

Happy Easter!