Baby bib. Had to make a gift for a newborn baby - born on my birthday - and used a few items on the announcement card to make this embroidery. I did not have the right font and did not want to spend time digitising that. Anyway, a different fond wa
Read an article on making your own fabric from (tiny) scraps. So I had to have a go at it. Used a bit larger pieces - "big steps, home early" my grandma would have said. I used a felt background, no adhesive, put some bridal netting on top and hoped
Design for Maryze. I was asked to embroider a baby bathrobe with a name and 'something extra'. So I digitised something that resembled the design on the birth-announcement. Client wanted the name in pink, thus the change in colours. Tested it
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