In answer to AiryFariy's question, here's the first thing I embroidered. Starting a new thread as I wonder if anyone knows what happened to the Kaffee Fassett embroideries that used to be carried by Husqvarna over at MyEmbroideries (there are 2 collections at Husqvarna and one doesn't have the pics come up)? There used to be vegetables and more flowers. Googling, I can't find them anywhere except for pictures from exhibits. His own website doesn't mention them and doesn't have a "contact me/us" space. In digging everything out - I'd thought I'd like to do some of the veggies as I recall loving how the tulip stitched. Funny AiryFairy asked the question as I'd recently looked at these - chatting with my sister this week, she still likes peachy tulips so I've been browsing what I had.

To answer the question, the first thing I ever embroidered with a machine was a towel in a class with my vendor. I's funny as I always thought terry towels were the simplest thing to do and later had heard folks thought they were difficult. My vendor had mentioned knits/tees were difficult and I didn't even try one for five years! Talk about first impressions :-) So, I did the white towel with a flower design that came with my machine. I'd been convinced I could only use Husqvarna embroideries (this was a long time ago), so I'd browsed their site and purchased Kaffee's tulip - my first embroidery machine design purchase. At home, did the peach tulip to match for sis (I started my thread collection always buying 3 of a color - a light, medium and dark of the shade as the designs I'd liked best were all shaded). Then, as I liked the tulip and she had a blue bathroom, stitched another towel set in blue.This was back in 2009 :-)