The Spooky Swifty Collection?

By Michelle -

Things that I like include (but are not limited to): professional wrestling, food, horror movies, and Taylor Swift. 

Some holiday seasons ago I made some really fun little Mari Lywd/Taylor Swift embroidery hoop ornaments that DID NOT pop off as I anticipated, and I don't know why. I thought it was very clever. I still think it is very clever. I thought everyone found the Mari Lywd charming? Horse skulls always look so happy! "tis the damn season" is also such a delightful little song, so I don't know what the hang up was except that other Swifties are not fun?

I have one left and you can get it here. I'm going to make more at some point so they can languish away in my Etsy shop with everything else as America collapses.

Instead of assuming that no one in the world wants Taylor Swift mashed up with spooky stuff (as I should probably assume at this point and I should probably learn from my massive failure business endeavors too, but here we are), I am simply going to make MORE Taylor Swift mashed up with spooky stuff. 

The first piece (or second if you count the Mari Lywds) is this one-off of The Conjuring and "seven." It is a 10x12" hand-embroidered and framed thing. There is only one. It is this one. Get it here.

I. DO. NOT. USE. PATTERNS. FOR. EMBROIDERY. Y'all.

I sketch on the fabric with a water-soluble marker then I completely free-hand everything, which is why each of my Mari Lywds was different instead of exact replicas over and over. Does no one actually want unique things anymore? Does everyone just want identical copies of everything? Like...what is happening? I'm so confused. When I first started this business I got so many custom orders for interesting ideas and people wanted to have something no one else had. 

Check out these process pictures of this thing. I also streamed most of it over on my family-unfriendly Twitch channel.


This last one is me stretching the linen on a piece of matte board before framing, which involves a lot of glue and is a whole ordeal, especially for something round. I think any round pieces I do in the future will be remaining in their hoops and I will only do rectangle/square frames. lol

 
Anywho, here are a few more pictures of the completed piece up close and I totally have some ideas for a few smaller pieces, which will be framed as well. I'll share them here when they're done! Maybe I'll find the Spooky Swifties one day? Or maybe these things will just sit in a box in my office for decades to be found after I'm dead.

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