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March Stitch Along - the final post!

Here's my finished piece, the Feeling Stitchy octopus now sits proudly on a bag.

(The bag, by the way, is the Everything Tote from Heather Ross' Weekend Sewing.)

I've had such fun stitching this and even more fun seeing what you guys have come up with. We've had some fantastic bags. I love in particular the fantastic stitching of the poem on the other side of fav orite.things pool bag for her grandson (top right photo).

1. Grandson's Pool Tote, side 1, 2. Grandson's Pool Tote, side 2, 3. Feeling Stitchy March Stitch Along, 4. March Stitch Along - finished!

There has been some great choices of background material.

March Stitch Along - great background material!

1. modernvintageembroiderydress.blogspot octopus full, 2. March Octopus far, 3. octopuses garden?, 4. March Stitch Along: In It's New Home

And some great ways of making the pattern your own.

1. the finished sampler, 2. Gentleman Octopus- March Stitch Along, 3. March stitch along!, 4. Paul the Octopus, 5. March stitch along, 6. MarchStitchAlong

There has been such fantastic work, so my huge apologies if I've managed to miss anyone out, I'm beginning to see octopuses swim in front of my eyes! And a big thank you to Corvus Tristis for providing us with such a lovely pattern set to work with.

Meanwhile it is never too late to stitch an octopus, I personally can't wait to see how Feeling Stitchy's Floresita does with her T-shirt embroidery, as you can see she's been busy with the white transfer paper recently.

Ready to Stitch by Floresita

March Stitch Along - week 3

Here's a shot of me satin stitching those letters!

Elsewhere in the pool there have been octopuses on the most amazing background fabric.

Uploaded by mimiwilborn

And there has been gentleman octopus.

Uploaded by oztheawesomewarewolf

And footballing octopus (I love the applique footballs - you can read why the octopus is called Paul here, it's very apt!)

Uploaded by Nicky- The Stitchy Life

It's not too late to still join in with this month's stitch along, you can find the patterns (and other great examples of this pattern stitched up) if you search under the tag MarchStitchAlong on Flickr and if you'd like to have a go at satin stitching the letters like me and oztheawesomewarewolf, there is a great, very comprehensive satin stitching tutorial here from Sublime Stitching.

I will do a full round up of this month's Stitch Along next Thursday, happy stitching!

March Stitch Along!

We've been big fans of Corvus Tristis' work ever since we saw her octopus pattern pop up on Giddy99's Duvet Project, so we were very excited when Corvus kindly offered to design a free pattern for Feeling Stitchy and we were even more excited when we saw what it was!

Feeling Stitchy Octopus by Corvus Tristis

We're going to be stitching this guy here at Feeling Stitchy for our March Stitch Along, so watch out for more posts this month as I stitch this guy up and hopefully feature pics from the Embroidery Pool, as you guys stitch along to! Make sure to tag any March stitch along pictures with the tag MarchStitchAlong, so we can find you!

So, you're going to be wanting to know how to get hold of this pattern, right? Corvus has not only provided us with this lovely guy above, she has also provided us with a whole alphabet and a blank octopus, so you can use the alphabet to stitch whatever word you like under your octopus. We'd love to see what ever words you use, just remember to use that tag! You can download the .pdf featuring all the pattern variations here and the patterns will also be up on the Embroidery pool. So, a big massive thank you to Corvus for designing this pattern for us!