Ready, Set, Stitch!

Welcome to the beginning of the Follow Your Bliss Makealong!

I hope you enjoy the journey. Use what you want, share what you make, check out what other people create too.

To start I have put up the Inspiration Words. You can download and print them out right from this post. 

CLICK HERE FOR A new version of this as I the original no longer loads! The girl is smaller in the new one, but you could also changeup the size of the figure on yours.

FYB Inspiration Words

I traced the words onto a 10 x 10 piece of light blue cotton fabric and used some of Granny’s embroidery floss to stitch the words.

You can stitch the words too or use them to inspire another creation.
{My second makealong piece will use these words cut out of fabric on a larger wallhanging.}

**If you want to makealong with me and not do the embroidery, you can use a 12 inch quilt block in place of the stitching panel. I will be adding a small border, then some quilt blocks around it next**

If you are new to embroidery, have no fear! There are lots of resources out there to help you make pretty stitches. For these words, I used a very common/popular/simple stitch called the Stem Stitch. I was introduced to it with Pat Sloan’s Happiness Key Mystery quilt. {Which I’m not done stitching yet!}

Here are 3 links to embroidery stitches for you:

Pat Sloan’s Stem Stitch video

Bari J.‘s newest blog, we love french knots, where she is starting to show how-to videos for different stitches

Sharon Boggon’s stitch dictionary

Please feel free to add more links in the comments if you have a favourite embroidery blog or video to share.

You can load pictures of your treasures and process pictures to the Follow Your Bliss flickr pool. or use #fybmakealong in your posts to social media.

I will share more of my process this week and host a linkup too.

With Joy,
Sarah Vee

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