I do like to feel like I've been checking things off my 'to do' list. Actually, I've been making scads of bags and totes for the store and not been taking pictures. I need to catch up. But here are a few things I did get done and remember to photograph. There's a tote bag with fabric rose embellishment, a lap/baby quilt in black and white, and the very very beginning of OVER THE RIVER, an embroidered quilt by Crabapple Hill.
Way to go! They're stunning!
--Heidi
Love your roses and baby quilt. The Crabapple Hill patterns are great. I love the way they incorporate embroidery into their quilts.
I have stitched several Crabapple Hill samples for The Quilt Merchant, my local quilt sh>I do like to feel like I've been checking things off my 'to do' list.
I know it's mindless, but this is going to go on FOREVER! I've never really done much embroidery. I always left that part to Mom. I guess this is the time to put on my Big Girl Panties and embroider embroider embroider. I should have paid more attention to what she was doing.
Our store has taught Winter Wonderland repeatedly. They advise using a layer of warm 'n natural underneath. I'm using a wool/poly bat myself and as seemed 'lighter.' I'm using the darkest brown floss that DMC makes to soften up the look just a tiny bit.
I've seen Winter Wonderland in both red and blue and like both equally. We've sold a ton of kits for Winter Wonderland, Over the River and the Garden Fence. It makes me smile to see that embroidery is 'coming back' into fashion. The generation after me is interested and learning embroidery, stimulated I think by the wonderful patterns that are now available.
I find myself wondering if my embroidery skills are up to this. I guess I'll be better by the time I'm done, right? joan
Joan, how do you transfer the embroidery pattern to the fabric? Love the bag and the black and white quilt.
Much of the embroidery on each of the first three quilts was stitched while Mom was in the hospital for one reason or another. She is 94 and her mind is a little fuzzy. Being at the hospital really confused her so I had to stay with her all day just to keep her calm. It is amazing how much stitching you can accomplish while sitting in a hospital room
14 hours a day. The panel you have chosen to start with is the hardest of the three >>> Love your roses and baby quilt. The Crabapple Hill patterns are great.
I take small balls of worsted yarn with me to work, and an M hook. I am doing a "shawl of many colors" Chain 116, single crochet back on one side, come around the corner and single crochet back the other side. End that piece. I am doing a whole bag of them. Then will single crohet the strips together. It's mindless except for the counting to
116 ;) I take this with me to the Mental Health facilities, to work on while waiting for calendar to start, and actually everywhere I go. Very portable and convenient.Ginger in CA
Theoretically, they are washable. Practically, I don't think I put them together well enough to handle much agitation. j
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