I really enjoy hand embroidery, but I don't particularly like doing big embroidery projects; I tend to save my "big project energy" for art quilts. But I love having a small embroidery project going at any given time, and one of my favorite embroidery blogs is run by Mary Corbett over at Needle N Thread. She's been running a series of small stitch-along projects. They're great because she walks through each step, and then the project finishes into something useful.
Recently she led a stitch-along to make a bejeweled beaded pincushion. You can see all the posts about the project here. Mary sold kits for the project but I wanted to use things I had on hand so I sort of adapted it a little for my materials.
The main embroidery is on the side panel that wraps around the pincushion with a little additional fun hexagonal stitching along the top. I had to put it in a fairly large hoop because the part that wraps around the pincushion is pretty wide and because it's beaded you can't really move the hoop. Someday maybe I'll invest in a nice rectangular frame, but not just now.
After assembling the pincushion, there is a row of palestrina stitch around the top and bottom edge. That was a new stitch to me and it was wonderful to have instructions for both left and right handed stitchers. The palestrina stitch was fun and it was good to have a chance to practice it.
Really cute. I love the shape of it, too.
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