Inspiration: Carol Leather

Since the release of Aimee Ray’s marvelous book, Doodle-Stitching, lots of needleworkers are inventing their own designs. Most of the doodles I see around the blogosphere look like…doodles. But Carol Leather of Needlework Tips & Techniques blog deserves a whole new category for her work. Carol says, “I sat and doodled with the needle last night and created this little butterfly…The upper wings are French knots, the body is herringbone stitch, and I used satin stitch for the lower wings. The antenna are worked in stem stitch with french knots at the ends.” So beautiful! Now that’s a doodle!