Placemats.
I bought two plain placemats in a clearance sale and put embroidering them on my to-do list. Seeing the tulips marie67 posted I remembered that I downloaded that tulip (a freebie) from the Husqvarna site in February 1999. I used it then for placemats in the purple colours that the design was in.
I had to undo all seams to embroider on the top layer only. And I chose 4 shades of yellow this time.
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16686Well done!
I had not thought of using pre-made place-mats and undoing the seams. That is a wonderful idea! Thank you
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by mops
02 Mar 2014
Thank you. I could have stitched through both layers, but decided against it. And am pleased with the clean back.
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360638Very pretty. Nice way to brighten up ones day. Good was to wish spring was here and the white stuff would go away. Happy Stitching
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9792Beautiful job Martine. My daughter Amy loves tulips and got a bunch from her fiance on Wednesday as a thankyou for having had Steve's father with them on and off for the past nearly 4 months! (and with a new baby to boot!!!!) Love Chris
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by mops
02 Mar 2014
Thank you, Chris. Winter has been so mild that tulips are cheap and plentiful. They are now buy two bunches, get one free, so it's easy to make a good display and bring spring indoors. Normally the daffodils come first, but I have not seen those yet - at least not in our neck of the woods.
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29955966014Oh, Martine, these are so elegant looking......great job!!
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261162This is beautiful. And, yes, the new HusqvarnaViking site has a lot less than the old (it also used to have more free projects and patterns - now they're much harder to find).
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86901They look lovely and so real. I could grow these...no green thumb required. Thank you for sharing.
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35301Very nice placemats, spring is coming but when? Snow and Canadian air coming south. lol!
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by mops
25 Feb 2014
Here we skipped winter altogether. Crocuses, snowdrops and daffodil colour gardens. Last year spring came very late, it seems to make up for it this year!
23281LOvely - but a bit like taking coals to Newcastle (as the saying goes!)
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by mops
25 Feb 2014
Thanks. Nowadays that seems less silly than before the mines were closed. The Dutch variation of that saying is either carrying water to the sea or taking owls to Athens. But taking tulips to Amsterdam would be a nice one too.
140717Very pretty. I love the yellow shades and the greens that you chose. They really look like shading here. You are my hero for taking these apart entirely.
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by mops
25 Feb 2014
Thanks Jerrilyn. Actually the tulip is done in one colour in, the the other shades are stitched on top, same stitch direction but lower density, so it is shading, not stitching different parts. And I will certainly use this method myself.
As for taking it apart - the stitches were very large so that was easy and I only top stitched it twice in a rather large stitch but considerably shorter than the original. So in the end it took less time than I anticipated.
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4129986326010Martine these are lovely. I saw yesterdays posting and your comments and went to look on the Husqvarna site to see if the design was still there. Enjoy using your beautiful table mats AND on completing a project on your bucket list
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by mops
25 Feb 2014
Thank you. I went to the site too, to see if I could post a link to the tulip. They used to have a number of free samples that stayed on for years, this one among them, but now they only have a monthly one as far as I can see.
115691Love the colours you have chosen, they are lovely.
Hugs, Lidia
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by mops
25 Feb 2014
Thanks. And that's one thing off my bucket list. Bought a couple of red ones too, I'll have a go at them later - might make a nice Christmas present for someone. Hugs, martine
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