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Mother's Day Hand Towels...I love lavender so I designed these after the lavender in my garden...the first one was my "test" and after I got it done I was not totally happy...you can't see the candlewick stitches in the heart and after stitching it, I decided that I needed to add knock down or embossing stitching to the inside of the heart...I made the changes to the design file using a wing needle design, and then stitched it again...much better I think...only wish I had thought of it before I stitched the first towel...but don't think that Marian will notice since she will not see the later stitch out...Thanks for looking, Cuties!
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These towels you've done look lovely &sure these ladies will all find your labor of love delightful too.Thanks for sharing your project &have a wonderful Mothers day. ~D
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Love them Kim wish i had a Mother to sew for hugs
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Me too...my Mom passed two years ago...so now I try to remember other "Mothers" who are important to me...
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Love them Kim. I love lavender also but have poor luck growing it in Alabama.
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basketkase
11 May 2018
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These are great, Kim.......knock down stitches are great!
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Thanks Vicki...they are...I really did not need them to "clarify" the details, but I wanted some extra texture in the heart...the wing needle stitching did the job...
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Great example of how there is more than one way to stitch something! I think that that all three are nice and have their own characteristics. Every mom would enjoy having these!
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Thank you...
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Gorgeous Kim, I love number 2. I'm also a Lavender lover, I always have sachets in my lingerie drawers! Love Chris
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Thank you, Chris...I have several lavender plants, and some do not produce the lavender for sachets...I wish I had known there were so many varieties before I purchased them!
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11 May 2018
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Beautyful towels :-)
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Thank you so much...and Big Welcome to Cute!
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They are all beautiful. I like embossing for towels, it adds some texture and keeps loops in place.
When using a wing needle in ME the width of the hole made by it is always horizontal, whatever the stitch direction, which does not always give the result I like (something similar applies to twin needles). I LOVE the effect in your case. Thanks for showing.
When using a wing needle in ME the width of the hole made by it is always horizontal, whatever the stitch direction, which does not always give the result I like (something similar applies to twin needles). I LOVE the effect in your case. Thanks for showing.
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Thank you, Martine...I think it adds a lovely bit of decoration to the inside of the heart, too...
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Nice job. I don't know your software, but the font looks like Flair Script in Bernina.. I use it a lot because it is so legible. I do love lavender also because I am a purple girl.
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Thanks, Kay...this was created in Janome Digitizer...same company that developed this for Janome also created the Bernina software...it is Flair Script...
Wow, I did not know they had the same fonts.
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Excellent beautiful towels love the stitches of wing needle in the heart and the lavender is beautiful
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Thank you, Stella....
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Beautiful towels.
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Thank you....