The cost of the class will be $10 per lady. I will provide one cheese cloth towel per person, one embroidery loop, a bunch of embroidery thread, and a needle. Alls you need to bring something you want to embroider.

There are patterns available online to buy. You buy the pattern and just download the pdf! Print it out and bring it over. The key to picking out a pattern: keep it simple and keep your sanity!!

Here are a few sites that have some really cute patterns. (notice how simple they are!)
Sublime Stitching
Magpie Patterns
Sew Charitable
A Little Sweetness

This is also a beautiful, simple idea!
Connect the Dots

i made my birdies and mobile ahead of time. i needed to figure everything out, so i could show the ladies how it’s done and i knew i wasn’t going to have time to make anything! well, i LOVE how mine turned out. i ended up, from dan’s suggestion, spray painting my branches gold. such a great idea. the gold adds a wonderful decadence.

ok, let me start with saying how wonderful it felt to have my living room overflowing with women! all talking and crafting. i was in heaven. it was also so interesting to see how each lady crafted their own individual special way. some very meticulous and slow. some head first and all out.

i definitely learned a ton; what a star cactus is and how to fish out a broken needle. i learned that some birds can look like dolphins, for real, and some can be so fat they burst. i learned that i have way too many scissors and a penchant for scissors. (but really, who can blame me! there’s nothing like a really shape pair!)

i set up “stations” through out the house. as the night wore on, the stations morphed and changed. the ironing station became a sewing station, the fabric station became a cutting station and sadly, the hot glue gun station went untouched all night long. i under estimated the breadth of this craft! it’s definitely a two nighter. last night was the first part, birdie construction. the second part will be mobile construction.