Crewel Embroidery

Since I finished my Christmas piece yesterday, I am now free to work on a new embroidery kit that I received as a Christmas gift!  My parents gave me this kit for crewel embroidery and I'm very excited because it is a technique I have been wanting to try!

I first heard of crewel while helping with the Urban Craft Uprising show.  I saw some awesome pieces by Tako Fibers.

Bird Embroidery Kit

You can buy finished pieces but also kits, so I might have to try one of these kits next.

Finished Embroidery Piece

Christmas is over but I finally finished my embroidery piece.  It's not perfect but it makes me smile :)

Christmas Embroidery

The other day I had a craving for Christmas embroidery.  I get weird art cravings like this.  I found this book at Ben Franklin.

I started working on my first project, one that says "Merry Yule" with flowers.

It's taking much longer than I thought.  Probably because I'm a little out of practice in cross-stitch.

Are you working on any holiday crafts right now?  How are they coming along?