A-Z Pattern Challenge 2016

Good morning,

Every now and again I like to set a little design challenge to get cracking on new work. Last year I did the Spring into Design challenge where I created a design a day for each day in March. You may recognise some of these as card designs in my Etsy shop:

A couple of years a go (before I got into textiles and embroidery) I did an A-Z Challenge. The below pic was taken from a potato print design:

H was for Houses

This year I've decided instead of doing a 'design a day challenge' to do another A-Z challenge and try to complete it during March/April(possibly even May!). I have created a completely random list of prompts that I hope will help spark some ideas:

If you would like to get involved too please do. You can use any medium you like, paint, pencil, digital, photography, collage, textiles the list goes on. I would like to experiment more with mixed media, but we'll see! If you are going to get involved please use the hashtag #AZchallenge just so we can all take a peep at the different designs being created!

Right I'm off to get cracking.

See you soon

x

Recent Work...

Evening all,

As I've been so quiet I thought I'd show you some work that I've been stitching recently. I am so lucky to get such wonderful commissions...

 A gorgeous welsh cottage with fab red phone box in the front garden- how brill!

A picturesque home stitched as a Christmas present <3

This stitched cottage made the recipient cry, I'm assured they were happy tears!

An extraordinary wedding venue complete with red carpet!

A gorgeous bungalow with beautiful pink blossom tree!

Which is your favourite? 

If you're interested in having a stitched house or venue portrait please get in touch via hello@mayidesign.co.uk or through my facebook page

See you soon

x

Happy New Year

Evening,

Happy New Year. I cannot believe another year has gone by! What's more I cannot believe I'm going to be 30 this year! Flippin' heck!

I thought I'd share with you my goals for the upcoming year. I had originally thought I would challenge myself to spend at least 30 minutes a day on May I design. Fitting it in when I could and around my full time job but making sure I spent a minimum of half an hour a day on it. But then I came across the 100 day challenge set by The Business bakery. Julia Bickerstaff has set a fab challenge of setting a specific goal and working on it for 100 days completing tasks as you go.

Julia has created a very handy workbook and work sheets to note down micro goals and a list of 100 steps that will get you closer to your achievement. Me being me, I'm slightly behind as I was back at work last week but I will get there! Today has been spent planning and choosing my 100 steps.

I'm super excited to see what opportunities arise this year and I hope to seize every single one!

See you soon

x

20% off EVERYTHING in my etsy shop...

I'm offering 20% off everything in my Etsy shop all you have to do is enter the code CHRISTMAS20 at the checkout. Enjoy!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MayIDesign

See you soon

x

The Tuesday Post

  

Good evening all,

I was recently commissioned to stitch Islington Town Hall. The framed piece was going to be given as a wedding gift.

This one was a little bit different as I didn't have a photograph to work from, so I googled the venue and worked from a few different images. This was one of them:

Source

Here is a little progress pic, all my house and venue portraits are stitched using only freehand machine embroidery: 

And this is the final stitch:

 I am super proud of it, I was so worried about stitching it but I love the outcome.

This is it all framed up with the names of the recipients and the date of the wedding on the mount. It made a really bespoke gift. 

I really love that my work can be a part of someones special day. It's a huge honour to be asked to stitch peoples homes and wedding venues.

If you would like more information about a house or venue portrait please contact me: hello@mayidesign.co.uk

See you soon

x

The Sunday Post

Good afternoon,

This week has been a busy one with house and venue portraits, which I can't show you just yet as they have been commissioned for Christmas gifts. 

I can show you one I worked on a few weeks ago now though:

This one didn't get framed, I am looking forward to showing you what it got turned into!

This weekend holds more house and venue portraits I hope to get all my Christmas commissions complete. 

OOO and don't forget the giveaway is happening on my facebook page end tonight at 7pm where I shall pick a winner at random head over to get involved.

See you next week

x

The Sunday post & a little giveaway...

Good afternoon,

I hope you've had an excellent week and that you're now wrapped up nice and warm. How cold has it suddenly become?!

This week has been a busy one at my 'real' job so not had a lot of time for making. But I now have two days off, which I plan to get cracking with all my house portrait orders- I cannot wait.

My Etsy shop is now up and running (yippee) I still have a few items to list on there so keep checking back you can visit it here:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MayIDesign 

 I am also running a giveaway over on my facebook page. To be in with a chance of winning these four super cute Christmas cards all you have to do is like the post and comment which is your favourite design easy as pie(or Christmas pudding!). Head over there now to get involved. I shall pick a winner next Sunday 29th November. 

https://www.facebook.com/mayidesign.co.uk

Good luck! 

See you next week

xx