Coaster for Valentine Inspired by Sue's coaster I made one too. Digitised the little hearts fill stitches. Not following my own advice to use wss for ITH projects, I ran into trouble: the outside satin stitches perforated the tear away stab
Valentine giftcard holder Made these today. Me and my camera are not the best of friends at the moment as you can see. The top one is felt. The lower is made of fine corduroy; a remnant of a skirt my daughter made. It had beautiful flowers embro
Book covers Finished 3 UFOs today, just had to sew the embroidered pieces into book covers. #1 is machine appliqued; #2 I digitised the shape and let the embroidery machine do the work; #3 I attached parts of a deconstructed silk flower an
Sweater for Ruth. Got my knitting needles out and some left-over balls of yarn.
I just sent the tutorial to 28 recipients. I hope I did not miss anyone, but if you don't get it, please PM me again. And the same applies to those who forgot to give me an email address.
Creating outlines (fancy stitches) in Embird. Made a tutorial. It's a 7-page illustrated pdf-file. Anybody who's interested, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it.
Ragdoll for 4x4 hoop. There was a request for a doll to be made in a 4x4 inch hoop. It takes 4 hoopings and quite a bit of hand stitching to get it together. Making it smaller would make turning the limbs almost impossible.
ITH keyfob. When I saw Bonnetgirl's ITH project I decided to make one for myself too. It sewed out nicely and just holds my phone as well, but next time I'll make them just a bit larger.
Hooded towel. As a present to a friend my daughter "ordered" a hooded towel with a design from the birth announcement. Did not have a blue one, so I did the name in blue on the hood.
Skirt for my granddaughter. Bought skirt, embroidered with the "singing tulips" characters from a well-known series of books in the Netherlands. Ruth will be going to a matinee on those books on Boxing Day and my daughter wanted some embroidery that
Christmas colouring book for my granddaughter. Coloured in the titel page. My Ruby stitched the 10 layers together without problems, but did not like the the very top and bottom where the seams caused extra thickness.
Towels for my grandson. My grandson will be 9 on the 15th, in between St. Nicholas and Christmas, not the best time for a birthday. He plays squash - hence the 12"x 57" white towel - and hockey - gets a bit dirtier so a darker towel. I think he'
Gave my penguin another hat and used it on a guest towel.
Card I needed a card and came up with this one. I used mylar for the first time. It was called "opal clear" but intensives the color of both background and thread. Colours in the picture are a bit too light. To ease placement, I designed a
Pincushion Before stitching my design on a quilt I tested it. I altered the outer line in a satin stitch, and made a pincushion.I had changed the sewing order so the inner line was stitched after the outer, giving a sort of ruffle along the sides.