Last night’s Brown Owls theme was Sublime Stitching.  What a plethora of gorgeous embroidery designs to choose from – both modern and vintage!  I haven’t ever used iron-on embroidery transfers – which became extremely obvious when I turned up the heat of the dry iron, pressed it down hard on the transfer and fabric, and proceeded to scorch the entire thing.  And I did it twice.  I’m very lucky that Kirsty and Pip were so tolerant of my ineptitutde!  I spend many hours wielding an iron, but with plenty of steam and lots of movement.  I’m clearly a dud with pressing – or maybe it was just a really hot iron!  Eventually I managed to transfer the design to fabric and start stitching.

See the scorch mark on the transfer?  Anyway, I’ll hopefully finish it off over the next couple of days, then come up with a project to include it in.  I also picked up a couple of balls of crochet thread – I’ve never worked in anything so thin – and the dutch ladies to stitch eventually.  It was another lovely crafty and chatty evening (even if it did mean missing The Farmer Wants A Wife).  I should be reading over the next few days rather than crafting, as I am hosting book group next Monday night.  Hook and needles down and book up!