It's no secret. I. Love. Cupcakes. They can be both super fancy and utterly dainty whilst being totally adorable. So it's kind of obvious that I like to embroider them too.
I first did this embroidery for, believe it or not, part of a uni project last year. Each week we tested out a different computer program which we could use in our future classrooms, created something, then submitted it as a part of a portfolio at the end of the semester. I was running behind creating it, and that one week I needed to create something similar to a .gif - so I located a cute little cupcake pattern (from Wild Olive) and quickly stitched it up (photographing after each colour, of course) as a "vanilla cupcake with mint icing and chocolate sprinkles". Here's what I ended up with:
Not great I know, but it brings me closer to my project.
When I can't sleep, I clean my room. Recently, I did just that - some 2am cleaning of my craft station thingy, and found this cute embroidery. Got bored a few nights later, and made myself a cute diary cover.
To be totally honest, I used the bright green for two simple reasons: I have a lot of the fabric and it's ...not what I'd ever usually use, and because of the bright green fabric I'll easily be able to find it.
Why did I want a diary cover? Well, I don't understand the idea of having the words "good", "stationary" and "diary" written across the left hand side of the front cover. That and the little ribbon kept falling out. Now it has a cute little green polka dot one!
With useful pockets, of course.
Plus my cute little cupcake making it oh so much more awesome.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! It was super easy to make too, one piece for the cover, cut another the same size then cut it in half to get the inside flaps. If you want pockets like I have, cut another piece the same size as one of the inside flaps. Sew altogether and you're all done. I hope that makes some sense! I might do up a tutorial sometime.
