Happy Spring, everyone! 🌼 I couldn't bear to part with my favorite (but very worn-out) old jeans, so I decided to give them a little DIY refresh.

I’ve put together a step-by-step tutorial and a video on the blog. Grab your needle and thread! 🧵👇

https://lenakataeva.com/blog/dandelion-hand-embroidery-how-i-refreshed-my-old-jeans-this-spring/

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Work in progress
(c'est un bouquet de renoncules pour la fête des mères)

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#Flowers
#Broderie

How it's going... Divine

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I am intending to rehouse all of my SlowTV Stitchery videos - not all at once! - and in that spirit have a new SlowTV Stitchery channel on MakerTube, here's number 1, filmed early in lockdown, in which I introduce the "Amarna Family Group" and centre the spiral

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https://makertube.net/w/vK9C9GQb8F4htSnhMJkGQ7

By my standards, "Stella's Birds", once I got a design I was happy with, didn't change too much. The only majoy alteration is the raised section of Stabby's wing, which changed from a solid "shoulder" to the leading edges I used for the other birds.

Making sure that variegated thread appeared in all the birds helps to tie them together, as the the quietness of using the same stitch for all three leaves, and a simple stitch for the tendrils.

I'm actually very pleased. I'm not sure it quite gets to be the Grinling Gibbons style of carving I had in the back of my mind, but I'm absolutely sure that Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote "Gentian Hill", never expected anyone to bounce inspiration out of it in the world of needlework!

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