And another is finished!
In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March second, I began stitching another embroidery for the Children’s Book Quilt, from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish:
My version is a little sleepy compared to the original, but I’m quite pleased with it. There may be a second Dr. Seuss drawing in the final collection… stay tuned.
Back in 1955, Crockett Johnson published Harold and the Purple Crayon, an odd book involving Harold drawing his way through adventures with his trusty purple crayon, with nary a real physical object nor another living creature throughout the book.
Here in 2012, I embroidered an image from the book: Harold in a mostly-drawn hot air balloon. I had the perfect fabric, though it seemed like it would be far too dark, so I bleached it:
I was very pleased the black and yellow did not bleach out as much as the blue did. After stitching, I colored in the moon and one star with gold fabric paint.
Today is my 100th post on this blog. That includes the little nothing posts, of course, but I’m still going to count it.
Today I’ll share with you Craft Countdown item #6. It occurs to me this one was also not completely from scratch, as I had made the tracing and transferred it to wash-away embroidery paper prior to New Year’s Eve.
If you don’t know who that is, get thee to a library or book store and look up Richard Scarry, who owns the copyright. I couldn’t relocate the specific source of this particular Lowly Worm image, unfortunately, and the colors I’d written down didn’t really make sense to me, so I used a mishmash of the colors from the books I did have accessible. This was easily the most time-consuming of the ten projects, but well worth it.