spendlove — Cute Embroidery

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An embroidery story for you. During WW2 Lincolnshire was known as Bomber County and local engineering companies changed to making munitions. One of them made gun turrets for Lancaster Bombers and the wife of the managing director wanted to do her bit for

12 19 Oct 2011

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More of Mops cutwork doilies. Martine and I have been working together on an idea this week and this doily is a spin-off. (She does the difficult bit.) The same design is used for both but the one on the right has extra fabrics appliqued. I have not moles

27 19 Oct 2011

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3D applique Christmas wreath. Another molested design although I can't remember where it came from! (Someone posted a link to it a couple of weeks ago.) I stitched out 3 poinsettias in each of two sizes and 9 leaves. They are assembled in pairs with bead

28 17 Oct 2011

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A glimpse of my other life! At the weekend it was the Gainsborough Folk Festival. For my sins I am the director and dogsbody who organises it. The picture is me making my closing announcements just before the final band gave us an encore. It was all very

23 17 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Mops Doily - molested! When I was stitching out Mops cutwork doily (from You Embroidery) I began to see lots of possibilities. So, I put red thread in the bobbin, stitched the scalloped edge and then replaced the holly with redwork designs. I love the

21 13 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Thanks Mops! Your bunny saves the day again. I found out today that a neighbour had just produced a baby so I needed a small gift. Bunny fits the bill perfectly with baby name and birthdate added.

30 12 Oct 2011

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It is nearly time for Secret Santa to get moving ready for Actual Christmas! If anyone wants to join the scheme, please send an email to cutesecretsanta@yahoo.com so I can add you to the list. Existing members don't need to do anything yet. (I will only

21 10 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Christmas Tree#3 Last one ( for today at least!) The silver fabric is some I bought to applique mermaids tails. Unfortunately I didn't have enough of the variegated metallic thread to do the outline as well.

18 09 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Christmas Tree #2 This is another version of Katulle's Christmas Tree. I appliqued pieces of Christmas print fabrics into the sections which didn't have a fill stitch. Please don't look too closely = I missed in a few places!

22 09 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Katulle's Christmas Tree I used the simplest of the set of designs so the gold lettering would show on the satin fabric.

34 08 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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My lovely dog. Please give Kattule hundreds of flowers for making this design for me. It is from a drawing and is a great likeness. It is stitched on ecru linen and has 48 000 stitches.

27 08 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Community

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I logged out earlier to let Songthrush log-on and I've had an awful job getting back in. It seems that each time I come to the site, I have to log-in again, but I get into a loop when my password isn't accepted. So I change my password and all is well u

7 04 Oct 2011

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Sari Bag This little bag is made from sari fabric which has a woven-in pattern. Sari Bag - This little bag is made from sari fabric which has a woven-in pattern. I quilted it with some curtain interlining (a sort of needle pu

10 02 Oct 2011

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FAO those of you who have access to a Lidl supermarket. Every few weeks, our Lidl has "sewing sets". They are plastic boxes containing various threads etc. One of the variations has 32 reels of thread each with a matching prewound bobbin. They are ve

10 02 Oct 2011

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by spendlove in Project

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Jack O'Lantern I was never tempted to stitch a Halloween design until I saw the FSL pumpkin that Martine (Mops) posted on You Embroidery the other day. However, being an awkward so and so, I persuaded her to re-jig the design so the eyes and mouth wer

14 02 Oct 2011