newly inspired

I have been completely inspired to work on something other than knitting (imagine that! ) My grandmother very generously sent me some white cross stitch fabric last week.  I was very excited to receive it.  After looking at it for a while, I decided it was too 'clean' looking and so I decided to tea dye it !  I boiled some water and set in some tea bags along with the fabric:

 It turned out more red than I hoped and so I thought coffee grounds would work even better.  A light aged antique brown was more of the look I was going for and the coffee grounds did just the trick !

I then laid it out to dry on the heater.  It dried within two hours; so much faster than I thought it would !  I love how the coffee left little stains and uneven lines.  It gives the fabric such a dated look.  I really love looking at embroidery or cross stitch on stained fabrics.  After it was completely dry, I steam pressed the fabric until all wrinkles were non existent. 

 Next, I started working on the cute little girl for my project:

 I added a cute little sheep:

 And here is the cute little girl and cute little sheep together !

 And finally, for a special touch I cross stitched the word 'wool' in grey with a glitter strand attached.  The way it gilmmers in the light is simply stunning and I really adore this project.  I am so excited to have these as part of my ADVENTure and cannot wait to cross stitch  more of them and give them away to lovers of wool !!!