the moment I read about Feeling Stitchy's Rainbow of Stitches contest. In fact, almost immediately I stitched up this violet sachet. It got me thinking about trying to do one stitchery for each color category...there are nine...ROYGBV + white and pink and black. Hot off my little sachet making frenzy, and with birds on the brain, I got the idea in my head that I would stitch nine bird theme sachets. With a month in front of me it seemed fun and doable.
I searched the internet and found some free patterns and got busy.
red
pattern found here
blue
pattern found here
green
A failed attempt to stitch with white floss on white wool (the stitching was barely visible) led me to experiment with this next piece. I just gave it a bath of green food coloring mixed with water. I was surprised the thread didn't hold the color.
pattern found here
then...whoops...red again?
pattern found here
Then...that was it. May got extremely busy. And now the contest is over and these were all I had time for. And I've yet to make them into sachets.
But since I have all these patterns, I'll probably stitch some more of these in the near future.
Happy June!!!
