This is a set I did for my granddaughter's room. It's 7 framed realistic animal designs from the Baby Africa set by OESD at Embroidery Online. They turned out beautifully but it was a lot of work and took me over 8 months (I have a job too). There are over 45 different colors and matching was done by eye since conversion charts did not help me change the colors to Sulky thread colors well enough. The fabric is Kona cotton (preshrunk) with a woven fusible interfacing on the back. Tear away and the fabric were hooped. I also pin basted and used the rubbery shelf liner around the hoop edges for stability. I did not use a stitched basting square. The lion cub was done several times since the color layers were very hard to discern so I had to try it several times and used my software to help figure it out. I also had to split the large parade because my hoop wasn't' large enough. I split the giraffe off which caused more challenges because the color sorting included colors that were in the giraffe and some of the other animals. Again I used my software to rearrange the color sorting. I just delivered the finished designs today. I hope to get a picture of them on the wall when they are all hung up. Baby is 7 months old already. So the moral is: Start earlier.
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158714These turned out wonderful , i saw it first on Facebook, came over to find the file, I so have to do it for my new grand daughter in January but i cant find the file or a search option on the site... would you be able to link me, Great work x
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3You should be so proud of these, and the new baby too! Your work and your info are outstanding! Hugs, Suzanna
18140Fantastic those are so cute what a great ideal to frame them. Beautiful. They look like painting and if it took only eight months you did great
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7630Living in Africa I just love these. You have done a wonderful job. The hippo is my favourite and I just adore the warthog.
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255049these are very beautiful! you did a nice job. well worth the 8 months you put into it. Right?
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72397Just beautiful what a lovely piece of work for your Granddaughter to keep forever and it certainly shows the many hours your spent on these but well worth ever minute Congratulations
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7873They are truly stunning, as you say a lot of work, but you must be very proud of how they turned out. Hugs Mauren
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11566oh how beautiful. Your granddaughter will be so happy with these and so proud her Grandmother made them ! great job !!
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743270Simply stunning!!! A very lucky granddaughter! Love them all!
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4384Oh wow, these are spectacular! All the love you put into them surely shows! And as for it taking you 8 months to complete - perfect takes time!
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70755Those are just gorgeous!! Beautiful job, not a pucker in sight and we all know how difficult that can be with those stitch intensive designs.
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4155They are beautiful! Your granddaughter should be very proud of you and so happy to receive such a lovely gift.
2841781Absolutely beautiful, worth every second of your time!
The designs are outstanding, perfectly stitched.
A work of art: love them all.
Compliment and hugs, Roberta
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9009WOW! What a lucky Granddaughter to have such a talented Grandma. these are beautiful and I am sure will be treasured. Hugs and Blessings, Barba
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6279What a magnificent piece of work, well done, I haven't seen embroidery so beautifully done as these pieces in a long time. They appear flawless and could pass for photos, congratulations, well done.
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21111271These are so well embroidered, I don't know where to start. The fur, hair of the zebra and lion look like if you touched them they would be soft. If you had to compromise on color choice, you did very well, may be better than their choice. Each one is a work of art. Beautiful! (and we weren't timing you!) Congratulations on a baby girl and finishing her art.
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109779Congratulations Sewmom, these are perfect, and doesn't it just go to show that using the proper stabilisers etc, make for this sort of embroidery stand out. You've done a fantastic job on them all. Well done, and I do hope you have sent these pictures to OESD I'm sure they would love to see your take on these animals. Love Chris
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23448524424That is So Stunning!!!Beautiful work done!!Awesome designs
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66017This is an awesome project! Thank you for all the details. Some people just don't understand that "just stitch it out" entails so much efflort to get it done. Your color choices are just perfect, and I'm glad you stuck with it to get them just right. Your results are well worth the work you put in to it!
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1529Gorgeous! You've done a beautiful job with darling designs. I keep going back to look at them again and again.
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5431Wow! These are so awesome!!! You did a wonderful job and I absolutely love how you did these.
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20088Sewmom.....how stunning!!!!! They look 3D.....
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by sewmom
23 Apr 2018
Thank you. I think the color layers help it look like that and I placed them on a sticky mounting board which makes the thickness of the embroidery stand out.
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96265Wonderful!! Those are gorgeous. You did a marvelous job. Appreciate all of your information on how you stitched them out. Will have to attempt.
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16Wow! Your work paid off. They are very well done!
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57675Gorgeous stitch outs. You did an awesome job on them. And they are so cute! Thank you for all the info on how you did them as well! I love learning from others!
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33350A beautiful set to be sure...beautiful stitch-outs as well...I am sure they will be treasured for a lifetime...
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145302You did an fantastic job, they all looks great, hugs Maria =^..^=
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20244These are so adorable. Well worth all the time it took to stitch out. I am sure they will be treasured. Hugs
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52686Beautiful work and lots of it. I did several of the single animals from this set on a batik-looking shirt, so that they were sort of appearing out of camoflauge! It turned out fine, but was a risk to try! Baby elephant was my favorite. I hope she loves them and always thinks of you.
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66905They are beautiful.I hope you made a list of all the colours you used ,in case you need to make more, because a lot of time was used up in deciding what colours to use from your stash.
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11860Great work. I have this CD and have only done the Meerkat.
Well worth the wait they are so well done.
A big pat on the back.
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29726Precious, precious, precious. You did an fantastic job. Perfect for a child's room. I can just imagine all the work it took, but so well worth it.
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by adawnstyle
12 Aug 2019
These turned out wonderful , i saw it first on Facebook, came over to find the file, I so have to do it for my new grand daughter in January but i cant find the file or a search option on the site... would you be able to link me, Great work x
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