Okay, they're not very exciting. I don't have the imagination - or a cotton scrap selection! It's all wool and twill and linen solids - to make scenes, really, so this is all I've got. I had the most fun with the betta-type fish; I used flower petals from an old dress scrap to make the fins+tail, and purposefully didn't sew them all down so they ( Read more... )

I've never done anything like this before, if you couldn't already tell. Nothing fancy, but I was enjoying the freedom of 'well the zigzagging is meant to be visible and clearly not meant to be perfect so WHEEEEE'. The only annoying thing is how the stitching gathers up the fabric a little bit so it can't be pressed completely flat...eh well, *I'm ( Read more... )