Happy 17 May to all Norwegian Cuties! Gratulerer med dagen.
As I promised Vicky I stitched the flower on a very thin fabric. It is slippery and synthetic, but I did not have a better fabric other than cutting a pair of nets in the bedroom which seemed a bit drastic. The stitching is fabulous when done direc
3D Flower I saw so may 3D flowers posted I could not resist digitising one. They are now 100% (which was 96 mm), 75% and 50%, which I changed after testing to 100%, 80% and 60%. I stitched the larger one after I had done the smaller ones in
Another guest towel. I was playing with parts of a design I made 5 years ago (one of the "stencil ornaments") to make an overall design for my largest hoop. To test it I used part of it, just right for a border. What better way to test the effect
Ginkgo leaves on hand towel, guest towel and wash mitt. I digitised two leaves. One has the parallel veins the ginkgo has, the other has branched veins, which makes a more interesting design. Wonder what you think. I copy and pasted, resized
Mug rug. Tested a new one and made quite a few variations: filled or red work design; stippled, parallel lines or cross hatched; with borders strips. I'll have a go at those after the weekend - my gift drawer is getter nicely filled!
Mug rugs - again. Had a bit of time today so tested these two. Have yet to close the opening by hand. Have quit a few left.
Chip of the old block? I am a very proud oma - this is my almost 7 year old granddaughter during her first sewing lesson her mother gave her and 3 friends yesterday. update: 2nd sewing lesson: making a pot holder. After stitching the thr
Two more mug rugs. Although I attached the borders of the mug rug in picture 1 ITH, I actually folded them over and hand stitched them at the back creating a border there as well. I did that as I wanted to quilt the backing fabric as well.
Two mug rugs for 5x7 hoop. I had not touched my embroidery machine for a couple of weeks, but I did digitise quite a few things. So today I tested two mug rugs. I dyed the yellow cotton a few years ago, with less skill than I hoped for at the time
Easter mug rug. Made another one. After stitching I tweaked it a bit and made the outside border the same width horizontally and vertically. Always a pity your nicely ironed fabrics look so crinkled after turning the thing right side out. And I
Easter mugrug Sometime ago I digitised two designs for someone and as a thank you present I got amongst other things two mugrugs with the design on it. I was so happy with those gifts. I liked the general design of her mugrugs and digitised a nu
Is anyone of you the proud and lucky owner of the Husqvarna EPIC. It will be introduced in my country in March, at a price of €10 under 12K - I could buy a 16-needle Bravo for that amount of money. What are the benefits (apart from what the websi
So far we have had the warmest winter since 1900 or so. Now my part of the world is covered in a sheet of glazed ice, the worst in 30 years. The silence is broken only by ice falling off the trees, no traffic, no aeroplanes to the nearby airport. Hubby we
My daughter-in-law, who neither sews nor embroiders, asked me to make an apron with a logo for a good friend who has a small catering business. Unfortunately she did not get the jpg-file of the logo until Christmas eve. So yesterday before breakfast I