Knitting has always been a way for me to calm down, enter a zen-like state, and create something beautiful (if lucky). Another form of needle art that I occasionally practice is embroidery. The latest project involves embellishing a denim jacket which I bought at a second hand store in Sun Prairie, WI last year while visiting my sister. This is not the first jacket that I have embroidered. The first one was for my daughter. Sadly, it was a junior size and I did not realize that was why she had put it in the give-away bag.
The theme for this jacket was woodland with a stag, rabbits, and flowers, and a tree. The yarn is double-stranded crewel wool. Some of the stitches include fern stitch, french knot, split stitch, straight stitch, daisy stitch, bullion knots, and satin stitch.
My jacket has right now a sea theme. The mermaid and mer-king are designs in Aimee Ray’s Doodle Stitching. She has her own wonderful website and you can be inspired by some of her original doodle designs. I was very clever in how I transferred the design. I took a picture of each on with my ipad. Expanded the picture until it was the size I wanted. Flipped each design around and the traced the design on tracing paper. Then I used transfer paper and a transfer wheel to get the design on the denim. In some cases, I had to trace the design several times since as I stitched some of the lines disappeared.
One sleeve has a branch of two sitting birds which was a motif I used on the jacket last year and really liked. The other sleeve has a quotation from Shakespeare’s Tempest. It is a line from Ariel’s song in Act 1, scene 2. Eventually, I will embroider a tree on the back but that will have to wait until after this trip to Paris. We leave today!
Who needs to think? 
Cool. And you’re right on trend, as this Fall we’re looking at a lot of personalized monogramming and embroidery!!
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