Heart Ornaments

 Good Morning, do you celebrate Valentine's Day with some decorating, that special date or dinner?

   I used to do a little something-like a favorite meal, but have not decorated much. In the past for my slow mail friends I would send off a big heart-this year not very inspired I guess.

  I was chatting in messages over on Etsy with a shop I had purchased from - remember when I used to dye a lot of leaf prints-onto fabrics and on papers?-well I have run out of my own and wanted a few pieces for the slow stitch bags so bought some of hers. She mentioned if I was familiar with Sue Spargo-Yes but had totally forgotten about her.

  Sue Spargo creates gorgeous stitches many on wool. So I found her online and subscribed on her social media for stitching inspiration.  She is sharing a heart tree here   with all the stitches and information needed to create.

Here is a photo of her project

  These little hearts would be a fun project to use up fabrics in one's stash.

  Over the weekend I started on the second dragonfly sashiko piece. So far I am very unhappy with it. Some of the colors are not showing up well on the off white background..  I asked a couple esty sellers that were selling this for color choices. One mentioned many like to use all indigo thread on the white background.  I am thinking of taking out what I have done and try that-thinking it will look better. Will try to save the threads for another project-as they are more expensive than embroidery threads.

  At the time I bought the threads-online-I didn't know that there are different thickness's of these threads-I don't live near any business that sells these-so this is an issue on this piece too as I change up the colors.

  This afternoon I finally have my dentist appointment-I am thinking this may get pulled out-as I had issues with it last year.

Happy Monday-enjoy your day