Ever since finding
doe-c-doe , I've taken quite a liking to embroidery. It hits me right in my rather retro sensibilities, I guess. So when I saw this book in the library I picked it up.
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It gives a pretty good play by play for a lot of different projects. I found a plain flour sack drying towel in our stash and decided to embellish it with the adorable apple on the front cover. But I didn't want to use fabric, so I just used the embrodery around the fabric.
The instructions said to trace the design on tissue paper. I figure there is probably fancy craft tissue paper, but I just used some from our impressive stash of gift tissue paper.
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Cute, no?
Thankfully I still had a hoop left over from our
front entry project. I fit the fabric in:
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It took me about 2 hours to stitch. It was a little hard to decipher the stitch from a book description, but I think I got it. And if it's wrong...well, I guess I've never heard of the embroidery police, so I guess I'm ok. My stitches are probably terribly big, ala Laura Ingalls, but again. No embroidery police.
After I was done I carefully tore away the tissue paper...
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And here's what I came up with! It was a fun little project. I did it all in one extra long naptime.
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I like the way it looks on our island!
And our twin-i-ness continues...I've been embroidering up a storm for some burp cloths for my sis. I use patterns that I iron on from Sublime Stitching.com. Check it out!
ReplyDeletelooks like fun! but I keep wondering how you are so PRODUCTIVE with a little one!
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