I had the idea for this design when I was thinking about the January stitch along prompt “Home Sweet Home”.
I saw @Lynx project and it gave me a tropical feeling which made me think of Lilo and Stitch, and when I thought about them I thought about the word Ohana, which means family, but it’s way more than just blood related family, and family for me (either it’s real family or friends) is home, I will always feel at home when I know I have those I love close to me.
So, I give you a lose interpretation of Home Sweet Home.
The whole design is made my be, I wanted to have some lose sketchy flowers around the words, but in the end I just made some leaves from Lilo’s dress, and one hibiscus flower inspired from the scene where Nani releases the flowers she held in her hands.
I made a mistake of using a felt pen to get the words over to the fabric, so at the bottom you can see the dark blue, sadly, but I’ve learned and bought a special embroidery mechanical pencil that works nice on fabric.
This is gorgeous! From the thumbnail I thought the leaves were a print on the fabric, but wow; I’m so impressed that they’re all embroidered! Your design is beautiful. Also, this is a fun coincidence for me since I happened to watch Lilo and Stitch with my family just a few days ago.
Thank you all! Yes, the leaves are also embroidered on, those took the longest to do I realised will see if I decide to fill inn the next project or not.
Funny thing is that even if I haven’t seen the movie in a long time certain scenes are playing on repeat in my brain XD hope you had fun watching it
So impressed you stitched all the things! Using a background fabric looks good, of course, but you can’t always find the perfect pattern. What you decided on is all so fitting and looks great together. I too particularly like the mix of font style, size and colour. Nicely done!
Your layout is perfection. The fonts. The thread choice. The background fabric. The sketch quality of the organic material. The entirety of the piece is utter perfection.
I’m so happy you were inspired, because this came of it. Thank you so much for sharing!
If you have time, would you be willing to post closer photos of the stitching?
ok, @JoyfulCloverasked for it, and I found time to take closeups of the piece. not certain if there was anything special you wanted so I just took of the flower and a leaf.
The other time I DID embroider I didn’t try to fill in anything, so this was a fun experience.
will see if I decide to fill inn the next project or not.
