Postcards from the Southern Cross

I have wanted to do many different styles of embroidery, Textile Arts etc for awhile, but have always thought 'big'. this put me off quite a bit as I felt I needed to 'have' lots of things and 'have' lots of time.

This year I am going to think 'smaller'.

My daughter has been patiently!! teaching me how to use Photoshop for simple things, which is all I want at the moment, and I have been sizing many designs and colouring pages of Pinterest, Dover etc to use in this way.

I have also decided to do a lot of my work as 'Postcards', this way I get to do some of the things I want to try, and not be overwhelmed by anything to big.

I find it easier to create things if I already have the size in mind. So by setting sizes, it takes the pressure off - silly, but my idiosyncrasy.

 This will be the front cover of my 'Postcards book. It is on fabric that I 'rusted' up

And this is the 'Postcard' that gave me the title of my Fabric Book. I have soooo many scraps that part of this years challenge is to use the scraps in as many different ways as I can. I had started by placing buttons around and realized that the right side reminded me of something. Then I realized that it was in the shape of the 'Southern Cross' if I positioned the smaller button to the right. And so the book was named.

  I have also been playing around with making Suffork Puffs, and plan on using them in different embellishments.  Again using all scrap fabric, this time most of it being my hand dyed fabric.

Again using scrap fabric and my own laces, I plan on doing a lot of embellishing this year as well.