Gift for a wedding

I spent weeks making these gifts. Unfortunately the marriage didn't last even two months.

I made hankies for bride and groom and their parents. They are what took the longest. For gentlemen's hankies, I did hemstitch with my sewing machine. For the ladies, I was going to to scallop edge with the sewing machine, but I didn't want to deal with trimming, so I did the rolled wave stitch on my Babylock Evolution Serger. Very happy with the result.

I was new to embroidery and I didn't even know that the embroidery hoop is larger than the stitch area. Anyway, my positioning is a little off as you can see. These are already the good ones. Wasted a lot of expensive handkerchief linen fabric. I was able to use those pieces in my later projects like the baby bibs. I also saved one as a press cloth.

Then I made a gift bag for the hankies.

I also embroidered on ready made napkins.

Then I made a tote bag for the bride which can be snapped up to be smaller.