spendlove — Cute Embroidery

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Something old, something new, something borrowed, all blue. An old denim shirt, a new fat quarter printed with blue roses and a drawstring from a pair of jogging bottoms. All made in the hoop. The design on the flap was a freebie that I particularly like.

23 15 Apr 2012

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Would those of you who have opted into the Secret Sister Tea Towel exchange like to put some details about your kitchen in this thread please? BTW you should have received the address to send to etc by email by now.

28 15 Apr 2012

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Things which mystify me #3. Why is it that embroidery questions can languish here for hours without answers (although they seem to gather flowers) but non-embroidery questions get responses into double figures in no time at all?

32 14 Apr 2012

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Has anyone tried Japanese Braiding? It looks like an ideal way to use the cords we can make with embroidery thread which isn't up to standard. I couldn't use my bobbin winer but we got great results with a food mixer! I've bought a loom (Ebay) and will

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14 12 Apr 2012

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I've been away over Easter, but not idle! I thought you might like to see what I have been doing. The picture shows some of the peg dolls and finger puppets made by the children I was working with and the video in the link shows the adults. (The first

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16 11 Apr 2012

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I've just had a quick look back and (nearly) counted up the designs I have posted in DBC since I began digitising at the beginning of the year. I can hardly believe it is possible! I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has made comments and sug

43 30 Mar 2012

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by spendlove in Project

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ITH ladybird purse. As requested by Stork.

28 30 Mar 2012

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by spendlove in Project

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Yet another ITH purse. Again with suelyn7 in mind. This one is for the 20cm square hoop. I added Martine's cotton reel and my friends name. It is made of a cotton print but lined with curtain lining to give it body. The picture on the left is befor

22 29 Mar 2012

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by spendlove in Project

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I had suelyn7 in mind when I made this ITH purse. It has a zip in the top (not quite as successful in this lined version as it was in the dog.) I made it to fit my 20cm square hoop and trapped shoe lace halves in the corners and a few cm up the sides. Whe

19 29 Mar 2012

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by spendlove in Project

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ITH purse - I digitised this one to use those annoying strips of fabric left over when you have made a cushion from a printed panel. I found a zip with concealed teeth in my collection so I didn't make a flap with the upper fabric.

29 29 Mar 2012

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More zipped dog purses. I've been messing around with my original dog purse and come up with these two variations. This fabric (furnishing velvet) is not really suitable but I chose it because it was vaguely furry. I wasn't really successful at trying t

28 26 Mar 2012

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Easter Chick finger puppet. I needed a chick to complete my silly hat for Easter so I decided to try a finger puppet. This is stitched on craft foam.

23 25 Mar 2012

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Puppy Purse Eggyannie asked me to try a little dog purse to go with the cat. This is my first draft. I used the concealed zip method as I didn't want to see a zip across his forehead!

21 25 Mar 2012

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It's a wrap! I had a couple of flowers left from my Easter bonnet and my artistic daughter had just wrapped this gift for me. It was her idea to incorporate the flowers and make a big leaf for a label. The font disppeared into the craft foam somewhat, bu

8 24 Mar 2012

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Wear a silly hat for Easter! Mike and I usually wear silly hats at Easter. This is mine - I digitised very simple flower and leaf shapes and stitched them on craft foam. They are held in place with hot glue. Fo you recognise Martine's finger puppet bunny

26 24 Mar 2012