A friend asked me to make an embroidery design based on a painting used for an invitation. A Dutch artist made it especially for a birthday party invitation for a friend. I got his permission to use parts of the design - and I used two of the larger flowe

Doily Honeysuckle It was some six months ago I digitised the last doilies and as I wanted to do something cheerful I had a go yesterday. I am not so sure about the leaves, they are a bit large in comparison. The sun was quite bright, even indoors w

Split flower design. I can't resist a challenge when I see one. I thought a split flower would not work, so I had a go at proving myself wrong. This one looks not bad at all, I think. I changed the colour of the bars, thought that would loo

Bag - recycled trouser legs. Nine days ago my husband tripped and fell. He had a 7" tear in his trousers and a nasty wound beneath the knee. The wound is healing after much TLC and sterilised dressings, the trousers were irreparable and I cut off

Another bamboo design, only one more to go.

A new begonia design. It is 160x110 mm or 6.32"x 4.34" and has 23825 stitches, so it needs good stabilising, I used two layers of tear-away.

Begonia 2 Digitised the second one of the I Love Begonias set. It stitched out beautifully - no need to adjust anything. So that's 2 down, 8 to go.

I love Begonias This was the first in a set by that name offered as freebies by Clipartopolis last week - see picture 1. I could not resist playing with half the heart - see the software generated picture. Those need a 200x200mm hoop, the heart

Begonia variation I stitched out one of the variations I made. I might stitch out more and do a wall hanging. cfidl asked for swags and corners, so I tried those - see the software generated picture. In order to get a nice corner I rotated the t

Cornflower and barley border. It started as a flower for a placemat, but then I loved the blue so much I went on and on and on. This was the last one before the alphabet that I had yet to stitch, which I did just now. I think I'll have to mak

Cornflower. I am working on a couple of blue placemats and designed a couple of summer flowers. Here's the cornflower. I used 4 shades of blue, but could not see the difference between 3 and 4 when stitched out, so I changed those two to just one

Flower design. I used 7 petals per flower and it reminded me of clematis, hence the colour. I'm not too sure about the decorative stripes, I might shorten them or leave them out altogether. This too fits a 4x4 hoop.

Daisy This is the stitch-out of 1 of 7 designs I made yesterday. The picture does not show the effects the light has on the different stitch directions. I was amazed at how beautiful it looks in real life.

Flower I digitised yesterday's free clipart by Clipartoon, the 9th in the current series. One more and I can start my quilt. The design is available on Yoriko's site www.mygardened.com Although all elements of this design are diffe

Notebook cover (A6). Had do try a cross stitch design using part of the same clipart. Recycled jeans leg and another addition to my "gift drawer" was born.