Shonna’s Creative Life: January 2021

I'm getting more into crafting.
First, back to Exploring Pattern and Texture.
Here is my work for 1.4, the final part of the session focused on running stitch

This is my piece for 2.1. This is backstitch, exploring shapes within smaller areas

For Stitch Club,
I completed the first piece in a challenge on containers. The object my container holds is a piece of driftwood that looks like a whale. I made the eyelet to line up with the whale's eye.

I also joined an art group online, and participated in a challenge the third week in October (starting October 19th)
Day 1 (I have since further embellished this with stitching)

Day 2

Day 3:

Day 4: (the start of a needle felting picture)

I started experimenting with some other drawing too.

On October 17th, I did a beginner's rug hooking course.

I soft launched an Etsy shop in September, but in November got my logo and did a hard launch. First up were sewing patterns from my mother-in-law, which she no longer wanted. An amazing number of them are uncut.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/CanadianBookwormShop

Then I started working on some craft items that I will add once I get some inventory created.

I also finished a few Christmas gifts.

This one is for my sister-in-law, who is from Quebec. It is a Jeanette Douglas design that I bought from Traditional Stitches near Calgary. I bought the bell pull software from Stitcher's Muse in Nanaimo.

I also finished this piece in October. It is one that I inherited from a friend no longer with us. She'd done the inner square and the wording around it, and started on the perennial border. I redid one small section and completed it. The pattern is The Perennial Border by Drawn Thread.