embroidery

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Deep purple golf towel with white motif of crossed clubs, tee & ball and monogram (MAF).

Quick gift

When I was in Houston this year, there was a stand selling all sorts of things to embroider, including plush golf towels. When I noticed that there were purple towels, I had to buy one for my husband. Today I added a little motif and his monogram. What made the […]

A small embroidered set of scissor case and pin cushion. They are grey fabric with a red rose, green leaves and white lacy stitching. The scissor case is about 6" tall, while the pin cushion is roughly 2" x 1.5".

A quick gift

I recently stitched up this cute set that I’ll be gifting in the coming holiday season. The designs came from Embroidery Library. My Bernina made short work of that! The flap of the scissor case is actually freestanding lace and is hand stitched onto the top of the case. The […]

lighted back of freestanding firehouse in red and black fabric with cream embroidery

Firehouse

It’s done! I have to say that putting the pieces together is pretty hard on thumbs that have some arthritis in them, but the alligator clamps that helped to grab the little “nubbins” and the button clips that held them in place afterwards made a difficult/fiddly task somewhat easier. I […]

Embroidered pieces for a free-standing firehouse not yet assembled. Fabrics are red, with black touches, embellished heavily with cream stitching.

In pieces

In fifteen pieces, to be exact!  One of the pictured pieces is actually two identical ones, so that’s why it doesn’t look like fifteen. I counted up how many stitches went into making these pieces, and the total was almost 378,000! I used up an entire roll of water-soluble stabilizer, […]

Embroidered pieces of an as-yet unfinished firehouse -- red fabric, cream embroidery.

Firehouse

I’ve started another project, but this one is proving to be a bit more time-consuming than I’d anticipated. I’ve done a few little free-standing embroidered appliqué projects, but this one is much more involved. To give a bit of background information, one of our grandsons is a firefighter, so when […]