Happy Father’s Day (a little belated!)

This week I have a special picture to share with you.   This is the gift that I gave my dad for Father’s Day.   I asked my 5 year old daughter and her 6 year old cousin to draw a picture of their grandad and they did not disappoint.   As soon as I asked my daughter to draw him her excited response was “I’m definitely drawing him in shorts because he always wears shorts!”, my nephew even managed to include his ever-present flip-flops!

The picture that my daughter drew was in colour so I honoured her colour scheme but my nephew’s drawing was in pencil so this gave me some artistic licence to choose the colours.  

My nephew is very much into Marvel superhero characters and I happened to be gifted some superhero fabric from the lovely Jen at Little T’s Haberdashery so this was the perfect fit for grandad’s t-shirt and was a good way to differentiate that the two drawings were from the two children.

Here is the finished picture:

Dad was very pleased with his picture and within minutes of opening had hung it in prime position on his office wall.  😊

If you like this and would like a similar picture making please contact me via one of the links on the right-hand side of the blog page or email me at annamaltoys@gmail.com.

Welcome back. 😃

This is one of the first pieces that I made from one of my daughter’s drawings.  
It is now up in my studio to give inspiration for future work.

Hello! And Welcome to my new and updated blog. It has been a while since my last post and this is because I took a break to have a family.   My daughter is now at school and I have decided to take the plunge and get back into making and posting my creations.   I hope you like my new work - and if you do please share, like and comment!

Recently I have come back to embroidery and have discovered a different technique for free-machine embroidery and now I am hooked!  My daughter was my inspiration, her pictures are so full of colour and freedom that they just had to be made into embroidery.   Children have a very different approach to art than adults and their work is so free, they see the world so differently and this is wonderful to capture in my work.   If you would like your children’s artwork to be transformed into a forever-love item (they also make lovely and unique presents!) then please contact me for a quotation either through this page or my email - annamaltoys@gmail.com.   You will soon also be able to find some of my work for sale on Etsy.

Thank you for looking at my work.

This is a piece from one of my friend’s daughter -  it was her Mother’s Day card.