What Shall I Carve Next?

Embroidered Pumpkin

via Design Editor



I have spent year upon year creating pumpkins for The Minion. It started out simple enough. Let's see, where do I begin?

 

 

The first was a very original jack-o-lantern face, next a cat and full moon, then it was Carol from Where the Wild Things Are and lastly Dora the Explorer. Which brings us to pumpkin number five.... How am I going to top Dora?

Jack Skellington

 

Tinkerbell

 

Minnie Mouse

 

The idea to mesh yarn with pumpkin has crossed my mind but I do love the idea of carving as much I love knitting. Yarn wrapping a pumpkin just isn't as fun.

 

I am liking this cross stitch tutorial though...... Decisions, decisions!

 

via Green Eyed

 

The Lovers, The Dreamers & Me: Free Embroidery Pattern

The Lovers, The Dreamers & Me
Free Embroidery Pattern

via Wild Olive

Ziggy Goes to America: An Embroidery of Two Davids

Aladdin Sane Era Bowie

Embroidery

via Sister Twisty

Great example of embroidery by blogger, Sister Twister; a self-proclaimed lover "of crafting, cats, shiny things and biscuits." She and I have a lot in common only my loves are crafting, ghoulish things and cupcakes.

I foolishly know very little Bowie Lore and was confused by Ziggy Stardust Era Bowie with Aladdin Sane Era Bowie, but a simple trip to wiki cleared that right up. Apparently, to make a long story short, Bowie referred to Aladdin Sane as "Ziggy Goes to America."

Here is the inspiration behind Sister Twisty's Bowie:

Via Deviant Art



.....and just for fun, here he is in cat form (also by Sister Twisty):

David Meowi

Even further, here's my favorite Bowie:

David Bowie as Goblin King Jareth

in Labyrinth

1986

But I'll save that for another post :)

Mischievous Stitchery

Free Embroidery Pattern

via Dream a Little Bigger

Do I know how to embroider? No, not really. I am, however, willing to learn! To get me started I found this very cute transfer pattern and with a little help from the Tutorials of Jenny Hart over at Sublime Stitching I may be well on my way to Mischievous Stitchery.....

Select Patterns available @ Sublime Stitching

Street art: Yarn Bombing meets Cross Stitch

Yarn Bombing's lesser known cousin
Street Embroidery

Miss Cross Stitch is her name and stitch bombing is her game! After a bench in Berlin, she has since set her sights on all of Europe.......