RosalieWakefield-Millefiori

OK, so it's not Brazilian embroidery ... although I have designed a few dahlias for my Millefiori projects using all sorts of stitc...

I don't know about all of you, but I've been pretty tired of looking at that picture of my fabric pens for all this time!      ...

 These are the new Sharpie Fabric Pens, called "Stained". I haven't tried them yet -- am still admiring them in the package. ...

This is the Meadow Rue (Thalictrum) from my garden. I made a little mini-tutorial for this simple flower and you can use it for your crazy ...

#966 "Chantilly Lace" is one of my Millefiori Brazilian dimensional embroidery designs. Alma, a stitching friend of mine, wrote an...

In the interest of forming "good" habits, I'm trying to post notes about Brazilian embroidery on a regular basis.  This is the...

The other day I posted a picture of one of my new Millefori designs, "Ruby Slipper Orchid" . I wrote that I was going to stitch it...

OK, it's not exactly painted, but it is a painted background. I'll tell you what I did in a minute, but first I wanted to point you ...

...and this isn't even Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery!  --although it IS dimensional.  I used cotton thread to stitch this fat little ...

The other day I saw this Strange Yellow Bird in my back yard, just hanging out. I knew it wasn't an American Goldfinch, but had no clue....

Well, yes. It's Cuthbert. Who else?       He spent several minutes circling the table, looking for a "spot". When he couldn...