spendlove — Cute Embroidery

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Memory blanket for Molly (it would be pretentious to call it a quilt!) The squares are cut from my sister's T-shirts. Mave (Songthrush) loved bags, shoes and tigers so those designs feature strongly. 13 year old Molly (her grand-daughter) has Asberger's

24 06 Aug 2012

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Finger puppet experiment. I used microfibre cleaning cloths for these puppets. Looks like felt, doesn't fray and should be washable!

20 04 Aug 2012

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Suggestion - I've just bought a pack of 14 microfibre cleaning cloths for 99p. They look and feel like felt (although a bit thinner)and come in several pretty colours. So, I'm going to experiment and use them in place of felt for a few items to test the

10 04 Aug 2012

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Sleep masks. I've been playing with these designs for a couple of days. The mask fabric needed nothing else! The eyes are on fleece fabric.

24 02 Aug 2012

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A batch of ITH purses for the craft fair. The chocolate one (bottom left) has boxed corners.

29 02 Aug 2012

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Apron for a chemist. The hazard designs are free at the moment from Urban Threads - I added the words.

20 01 Aug 2012

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Calling all Cute Secret Sisters. I have just sent out the details of the next swap. Please check your emails. My email system will not allow me to send everyone a message at once so I have to split my list. There is a chance that, in doing so, I have miss

27 30 Jul 2012

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A little bit of bragging..... An ex-pupil of mine wrote the music which was being played during the forging of the rings part of the Olympic opening ceremony! I actually taught him Science, but I did encourage him with his music which was mostly self t

15 30 Jul 2012

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Various items for a craft fair. Scottie has convinced me that we should do a craft fair so I've been embellishing some T-towels and aprons today to build up some stock! I seem to be stuck on a black and white theme.

21 28 Jul 2012

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Butterflies and flowers. This tablecloth has been keeping me busy whilst on my travels. The cloth is 30" square and is woven with an Aida type fabric border. It was a French kit that Scottie bought me for my birthday. I've inset a close-up of one corner

29 26 Jul 2012

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Another project for Uganda (and other third world countries) These little jumpers are for Fidh'n'chip babies". (Babies with AIDS who often have to be wrapped in newspaper because they don't have clothes.

1 links:

[1] Here is an explanation.

pinkpiggywiggy.blogspot.co.uk

20 24 Jul 2012

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July Challenge - in response to biddysews question. "Rules" Use one of Veronika's designs on any item and post a picture in Projects for us all to see. Put "July Challenge" in the title. It would be great if you use the design in an "out of the b

20 03 Jul 2012

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Advice please! How do I go about making a quilt out of recycled t-shirts? Must I use iron-on vilene to stop the jersey fabric stretching or could I mount each square on old sheeting and get the same effect? Vilene is very pricey (and I need a lot) and it

22 02 Jul 2012

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Custom packaging for Songthrush's quilt. I made a pillow case in the same fabric as the quilt backing and put the grand-daughter's name on it using Martine's flower font. It looks a bit strange with the quilt inside but should look great with a pill

27 02 Jul 2012

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Songthrush's quilt. Mave had been working on this for the last few weeks. It was her first try at patchwork and is for her younger grand-daughter. The top was complete and tacked to the wadding and backing fabric so I have finished it off. It is for a si

40 02 Jul 2012