Floral Pattern Creation: Behind The Scenes

I collected these tiny flower specimens on a walk around my neighborhood. So many pretty things are blooming its hard to to be inspired every time I go outside. After I returned home, I spread the flowers out on paper and started sketching from life. I find drawing from life is quite challenging but enjoyable. It takes an extreme amount of concentration to draw exactly what you see and not what you would expect to see.

I'm hoping to get some small floral prints created from these drawings. So far I haven't come up with any promising, but you have to start somewhere.

Behind the Scenes: My Embroidery Kit Factory

For those of you that are waiting on Tea Towel Embroidery Kits, I wanted to share some snap shots of the process of getting these kits together. Firstly, this is the luscious red thread bobbins waiting to be packing into a kit.

I'm a little embarrassed to share this photo. It looks kind of like I'm just moving in, but its just project explosion from the tea towel kits.At least the kitty found a nice place to hang out.
My late night print session.
This contraption, we call him Steve, is a portable oven. His job is to set the ink to 324 degrees.