A great student and a proud teacher

Olá! This week I'm taking a break in my traditional embroidery choices... Sometimes it feels good, too. And the photos I'm showing bring me good memories...

I love to teach. Since I was a child I dreamed of becoming a teacher. And, fortunately, my dreams came true... But I never, never thought of teaching embroidery... It never crossed my mind, for many many years. But teaching is teaching... Whether you teach complex formulas (as I used to do) or embroidery stitches... It's an experience that requires the use of mind and heart both for those who learn and those who teach... And these are the kinds of experiences that you keep in your memories...

These photos are my memories!! Some years ago I was in a craft show and, as happens frequently, I taught the colleague in the stand next to mine her first embroidery stitches.  And we were there embroidering together for some hours... She was a great student!! And very creative, too...

Afterward, she took both our pieces of embroidery and decided to use them creatively to decorate these t-shirts, adding some crochet details. As I like to say: embroidery out of drawers!!!!

T-shirt decorated by Leonor Rodrigues

First stitches by Leonor Rodrigues - paisley pattern

T-shirt decorated by Leonor Rodrigues

Hibiscus pattern

Shouldn't I be a proud teacher?

And these are great ideas to inspire us when we don't know how to use that special piece of embroidery... 

A bright new start...

Olá! I have to begin wishing a great 2014 and an inspiring new beginning... 

I was thinking that I wanted something really special to begin this year with. Something that could inspire us to believe that this year we can have a bright new start...

And then I remembered these photos... These pictures are a few years old... They are pictures of the first embroidery stitches of my younger daughter.

The first photo shows her first work with needles. She was 5 years old... The three flowers were hand drawn by her and she decided to add the beads on her own... For her first stitches...

The other pictures show how she became enthusiastic about embroidery... At that time she was already an expert, but still 5 years old...

Why these pictures?? To inspire us to have a new beginning this year... Do you imagine those little hands enjoying her first stitching? And how important it is not being afraid of needles (or of anything else)? And how amazing it is to learn something new?

This is what I wish for we all this year... That we may learn many new things without being afraid...

Fabulous K

stitched by Kyle J. Letendre

This fabulous K is described by Kyle as his "first go at embroidery!" Seriously, Kyle, this is amazing work - I think you need to keep embroidering. :)

Read more about Kyle's project on his blog (which is also amazing, by the way).

Another first

Premier essai de broderie, originally uploaded by chabronico.

Gosh, I do love discovering first attempts at embroidery.

Like this one from chabronico.

Isn't it beautiful? Read more about it here (in French).


If you too have recently taken your first stitchy steps, do share them in the Feeling Stitchy Flickr group! Tag your images with ' first stitches ' - so I can find 'em. :-)

Robotic first attempt

robot and dog, originally uploaded by daisymae_cs.

Would you believe it, this is daisymae_cs' first attempt at embroidery!

Not bad I think!

Both the 'bot and dog are super cute!

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Here's an idea: if you are new, like brand new, to embroidery, please add that very first attempt to the FS group and tag it with first_embroidery_attempt and I'll post some of them here on FS. We all start somewhere, right!? Go on, stitch something for the very first time! :-)

First embroidery

Stitched by xoxojessica

Here's another first embroidery - isn't this amazing? I'm staggered by how lovely this is.

First stitches

picture by **stina**

Swooning at the sweetness of this! Look at those hands in motion!

My First Embroidery...

Originally uploaded by honeyflake.

Laurie's post about her daughter's first embroidery reminded me of all the wonderful "first embroidery" projects I've seen on the web...

You don't have to be an adorable tot to be doing your first embroidery - some of us are learning as adults! Over on Craftster I love to click on every post labeled "my first embroidery," you really find the coolest stuff, like these awesome pillowcases by tilliev...

And there are oodles of "first embroideries" to be found on Flickr:

1. first embroidery project, 2. Stitch Lesson, 3. First embroidery project!, 4. My first embroidery!

Here's how I got back into embroidering... And, well, why don't you show us your first embroidery! :)