Little Birdie's Embroidery project

I don't know yet what I am going to do with this. I kinda thought I would turn it into a little throw pillow. It is worked almost entirely in DMC Floche and the stitches I used were split stitch, satin stitch, leaf stitch and long and short stitch, and a few lazy daisy's. I am completely new to hand embroidery so it's certainly not perfect, but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. I certainly need more practice though! Especially on satin stitching. Weird, it's one of the most simple stitches to work but one of the hardest to get it to look just *right*. Ah, well, practice makes perfect. I hope, at least:-)

What a mess!

For Christmas, I took it upon myself to make stockings for Dh, the kids, and me. I never found fabric that I liked for it though. I really had wanted to do them in a nice velvet or something but I couldn't find any. And the cottons I looked at were just too busy for my liking since I wanted to embroider on them too. Heh. I was ambitious. What can I say?

Well, at the last minute( literally! The day before Christmas Eve!) I gave in a bought some cheapie felt stockings from Target, figuring that I could at least put some pretty embroidery on them and make them do for this year, right? Ugh.

I decided to just do our names on them in a nice simple chain stitch. Darned if the cheap little things didn't start ripping on me! I fiished them but sheesh, what a hassle and needless to say, they won't be making a return next year. So note to self: PLAN AHEAD! I'll be starting much earlier this year and hopefully I'll be able to make some herirloom quality stockings for the family!