Experimantal Embroidery Project

I have a big pile of my daughter's drawing. Children's drawings sometimes look very rough and primitive, but there is purity and honesty in it. It is pretty much interesting to me and I love that. So I would love to keep all of them if I could. But sadly I need to organize them once a while before my house get filled with all those doodles. I through some  into the recycle bin and I put some of them I really love in folders. I have been thinking if there is a way to use her drawing in my work besides just putting them in the frame and hanging up on the wall. One day I traced some of her art pieces on tracing papers and waited for the time I can work on it.

Then, it is time to do it! This is an experimental project. I decided to embroider this design of adorable two persons. The size of this embroidery pattern is small and the lines are pretty intricate. I wasn't sure if it would work well but anyway I gave it a try.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you what this drawing is about. It is "Me and my Mom". Isn't is sweet?

I used back stitch for most of outlines. For her curly hair I did couching stitch. As you see in those two pics, I changed the color of her lips.

This girl above is my daughter Nina. Original drawing doesn't have colors. I added colors and some patterns on our dresses.

This is me! Nina didn't forget to draw earrings on my ears.

This is the whole design. I tried pretty hard not to ruin the original look. So this looks like almost exactly Nina's original drawing (I'm sorry I forgot to take a picture of it).

I am very happy with the result. I have a lot more waiting to be made up. I am motivated pretty much now. Anyway, I finished this embroidery and actually made a bag using it on the front. I will write about it in the next post. 

If you have a little kid and you think he/she is a genius artist, like I do :-p, you should try this. I am sure it will make you and your family smile.

Thank you for reading!