OOoooooooOoooh y'all. I got the most awesome thing in the mail this week. Straight from doe-c-doe herself, it's one of her gorgeously hand-embroidered quilt pieces. And it. is. s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g.
Here's a little back story: I've followed doe-c-doe's blog for ages. I can't remember exactly when I stumbled upon it, but I'm thinking it was from one of her projects she posted in the Flickr embroidery group. I've been absolutely hooked ever since, and she is at the top of my must-read blog list. Her photography is gorgeous, her projects are pristine and her aesthetic is just ... peachy keen. I'm consistenly floored by her perfect stictches (which, let me tell you - having seen them up close now ... holy smokes are they perfect!) and I've loved watching her projects evolve on her blog.
Some of my favorite doe-c-doe projects are the following:
She also has the most incredible luck with thrifting that I've ever seen, and her dog is insanely cute (and appreantly very tolerant of being made to wear things like bonnets, aprons and ... mustaches?)
But more than anything, I've found that in my occasional correspondence with "g" (as she signs all her emails) is that she is incredibly sweet, kind and very sincere - some of my favorite qualities in a person.
A few months ago, she announced that some of her fabric/paper/embroidery vintage sewing pattern collages were being made available in her etsy shop. About 30 seconds after reading that post, I forwarded the link for the collage I coveted to my husband with a not-so-subtle "Gee, I'd *love* this for Christmas" message. A few days later, I noticed the collage had sold, and thought he'd taken the hint.Sigh.
He hadn't - someone else had purchased the piece.
Later, after I commented on Niku's picture of her doe-c-doe purchase, apparently Niku tipped doe-c-doe off to my coveting of her work. The next thing I know, I have a very sweet Flickr mail from doe-c-doe requesting my choice of emrboidered image and my shipping address so she could send me something. I sent a picture of my favorite embroidery scissors and - viola! - soon arrived a gorgeous quilt circle with the scissors perfectly stitched right in the middle.
I was floored! The piece is so gorgeous, and it was such a generous gift. I feel totally underserving and just hope that the good karma will go back to doe-c-doe ten fold. Head on over to her blog and let her know how utterly rad she is, and be sure to check her etsy shop for some additional priceless pieces. Tell her Average Jane sent you. :)
What a sweet story of fandom, generosity and good karma! Your writing is pure joy to read. Thanks for sharing the story.
ReplyDeleteThat's so fabulous! I love her work too! That Lucy pillow is To. Die. For.
ReplyDeleteI really do love Lucy.
The scissors are fantastic too. What a great gift.
Score!
I love this delicious story!
ReplyDeleteG is a sweetheart! She's one of the kindest and most generous bloggers I know. She sent me the most beautiful little gift when I ordered a bunch of jewelry from her store - I've yet to take a picture of it because I want to make sure the lightming and scene are perfect enough and G-worthy. :)
ReplyDeleteyou are an evil woman. I checked out her store and bought 2 rings! ARGH! I couldn't help myself they were so cute.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky of you and how incredibly sweet of her! She does do incredible work. Of course, I'm a little biased toward that wall hanging for 'The Smiths'...lol!
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness...I am so not worthy of such a lovely post rach! really, I'm so flattered...I'm speechless {and that's a rare occurance for me!}. I'm just so glad you like the piece - I was so happy to do it for you...making something special for a specific {special} person is my favorite thing to do :)
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ReplyDeleteyay, so much fun to read this! The scissors are beautiful and are so perfect for you! I adore Miss doe-c-doe and that piece from her of the sewing machine is one of my favorite pieces of art or craft ever. It makes my day every time I look at it!
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You are the worthiest of the worthy on that one dear Rachel.
ReplyDeleteG is amazing. I bought one of her embroidery hoop collages and I just couldn't believe that she sold it for $6.00! Lucky you to receive such a nice prezzy!
ReplyDeleteYou lucky...LUCKY DOG!!! OMG! I remember when I first "stumbled upon" doe-c-doe. I spent days taking it all in, spending every spare moment sighing over her genius. I just want to adopt her as my momma, so I can go around saying, "look what MYYYYY momma made!!" Congrats on the surprise gift, those are always the best.
ReplyDeleteSo gorgeous, all of it! I especially love the necklace - just beautiful. You are one very kind person yourself though Rachel and like we tell our children "goodness attracts goodness!"
ReplyDeleteshe really is a sweetie pie! Her stitching is amazing.
ReplyDeleteWow, you are so lucky! Those scissors rock!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, that's the wonderful thing about blogging. I really enjoy visiting blogs that others have referred. I would never have found them otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI'm in love with doe c doe's things. I adore the McCalls patterns and am dying to know where she goes thrifting. I am contemplating buying some of her McCall's patterns from Etsy. She sounds like a wonderful person.
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