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Here is a great example of embroidery on canvas.ĭesign is a free download to all members of the Sulk Embroidery Club: #1090 Heart Scrollwork-Small-an outline design If you haven’t signed up yet for this week’s give-away of a whole collection of coton a broder in colors, don’t forget to do that before Monday! It’s a wonderful give-away, thanks to Hedgehog Handworks, where they’re now stocking the whole color line of coton a broder 25.Today we are continuing to explore machine embroidery on heavy woven fabrics. You can find lots of other embroidery projects from readers here on Needle ‘n Thread – they’re always fun to browse through for a shot of inspiration! If you’ve recently finished something you’d like featured on Needle ‘n Thread, feel free to drop me a line and tell me about it. Thanks for sending the photos, Caroline, and congratulations on completing the collection! I bet your daughter’s teacher is thrilled silly!
This is my favorite in the collection! I just love the flowers, the leaves, the colors…Īnd this is another favorite! I can’t imagine that cast-on stitch flowers are easy on a painted canvas, but I think this little bunch came out great!įun collection, isn’t it? If you’ve been musing about how to decorate a room in your house – like a guest room or a kid’s room or even the living room – maybe this will give you some ideas! She used a whole slew of stitches throughout the canvases, including familiar stitches like stem stitch, couching, long and short stitch, French knots, fishbone stitch, bullion knots, detached buttonhole, and others. I love these wispy lavender looking flowers and those tiny red flowers scattered underneath! They’re perfect as “tiles” of color and texture.Ĭaroline said that she used regular DMC stranded cotton floss for all the embroidery. I like the idea of a set of same-sized scenes like these. I’d guess somewhere 8 to 10 inches square. (Don’t you love the music notes above the flowers in the top left corner tile?!)Īll the canvases are the same size, though I’m not sure what size. A great way to add a cheery, sunny touch to the learning environment!
I don’t know if these are destined for a classroom, but I think they are. The collection is made up of 18 canvases – not needlepoint canvas, mind you, but art canvases – that she painted and to which she then added touches of hand embroidery.Ĭaroline is just learning embroidery, so she treated the collection like a sampler, using all kinds of different stitches for the embroidered elements. Already, we’re off to a good start! Hurray for parents who do nice things for teachers! Today, let’s look at an example of a reader’s embroidery, one that I think is a really fun idea that opens up all kinds of possibilities for household decor!Ĭaroline Thomas recently sent me photos of a collection of work she’s been doing for her daughter’s teacher. It’s so much fun to see what’s going on in the embroidery lives of readers here on Needle ‘n Thread!