Some embroidery

My favourite jeans are falling apart. Frayed cuffs and paint stains and allover worn out. I've had to reduce the waist twice (due to weight loss *g*) and once I repaired the crotch area. A worn crotch on jeans is tricky to fix and it's only possible before there is a hole. I used a fusible (Swedish brand) on two leftover pieces of light silk, sewed them together to match the seam in the jeans' crotch, ironed them on and then sewed back and forth with the grain. It's not elegant, but choose a thread in the right colour and it's almost invisible and it actually works.
But. Once your clothes have reached this stage of falling-apart-edness there's nothing to prevent you from messing around with them. I decided to embroider ladybugs on mine. My youngest son saw them and told his older brother "Mommy's sewing spiders on her pants". I guess I agree, they don't look much like ladybugs, but at leats my jeans are crawling :)

Speaking of embroidery I made a painting with flowers. Inspired by a picture on the 'net I used textile paint to make big blobs of colour with long stalks attached. I then embroidered contours on the stalks with upside down back stitch and flowers in the blobs with single chain stitches and french knots. This project was a lot of fun to make, and I'm very happy with the result.