I made a test with a little flower design (machine embroidery) on a piece of light lilac cottonsatin, its about 6 inches high and 10 inches wide. The colors in the embroidery are purple, green and yellow. I have a foto uploaded (not a very good foto:)) to this adres:
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First one in my mailbox (emailadres above is valid) I will send the scrap:)
Its a freeby design from a site where I fel in love with and try to decide wich desgns I want to purchase, there are also some foto's of embroidered quilts there.
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to almost the bottom of this page and there is a dark mossgreen quilt Iwould love to make:)
I love the idea of these embroidered blocks used in a quilt. Does the machine embroidery thread withstand washing? I'm only interested - have no capability to embark on this road >g< . In message , Granny Waetherwax writes
I often fear I'm a Rincewind sort of quilter. Always running away from the quilting while nobody's looking. And yes, I'm a Pratchett fan, as are both my boys. I may have made some mistakes but in the things that count I raised them totally right.
Sigh........I always are thinking to make this.....and that.......and put it off. Then in a moment of dispare I lock myself in my room and start working weeks and weeks and stop just before it is finished and then it waits ....and waits..........:)
:)) My daughter would not read, when I said 'read a book' she replied ' I already do, in school'....after years and years I gave up.
Then she saw the first movie of Lord of the Rings and the wonder occured, she started to read so I slipped her a copy of the first Pratchett and a new pratchett junky was born:)
And trust me, we mothers are never right........until they have children of their own:)
The cost of threads is the major expense when machine embroidering. I am finding quickly that bidding on ebay for various thread packages is the way to go for me. I have found a couple sellers that have high quality threads and if I watch the bidding I have been able to pick up some large lots of thread for very little money. julia
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