Roswitha, A Late Summer Harvest Mouse

 

Some little details of the embroidery to Roswitha's dress. A late summer meadow in a variety of threads and stitches. Her sachet is stuffed with red clover from the local fields and she has a rose quartz to her heart. 

All her features are hand embroidered and she has a little leather tail with leather ears also. Her dress is complemented with petticoats and broderie anglais drawers. Finished with tiny buttons, organza ribbon and little leather shoes. 

The Parish Council planted our verges in the village with wild flowers for the insects and the benefits where huge . We had so many new insects in our garden including blood bees and a variety of memetic hover flies. 

Lilliwin, A Harvest Mouse with an Autumnal Meadow Dress

 

Lilliwin, a pretty little harvest mouse with a wild autumn dress. All hand embroidered with a variety of cottons in a dark cream 22 count hardanger evenweave cloth. 

She has details from the skirt to her neckline and she is finished with organza ribbon, coordinating petticoats and leather leather shoes. Her sachet is hand embroidered silk picking up the design of the skirt. 

She has carnelian to her heart for courage and rose petals in her stuffing with a touch of rose absolute for a gentle scent. 

I absolutely love making these little embroidered dresses, they are a natural extension of my sampler work and a joy to make. They take time  and the dresses are hard to stich together but I love the effect.

Nora and New Witches in the Shop

 

Nora is one of the new witches listed in the shop. I am embrassing the embroidered faces and starting to love making them. I am working on autumn witches at the moment and will shortly move onto my Christmas collection. 

Enjoying autumn too much at the moment to be thinking about Christmas but I have made my Christmas fabric choices and am looking forward to the run up to Christmas. 

There are some beautiful autumn fabric choices at the moment and I love this one. Fairy Clocks by Lewis and Irene. Autumn seed heads and dandelion clocks dance across a rich purple ground in this colourway. Simply gorgeous.