First, let me wish you a happy Valentine’s Day! My latest post at Brother’s blog Stitching Sewcial is all about embroidered cards, specifically Valentines. I wish you all joy and happiness on this special day of love.
The tutorial gives all the ins and outs of embroidering cards, from choice of cardstock size and attaching embroidery. Check it out and please leave a comment at Stitching Sewcial if you find it helpful or inspiring. Here are a few of the other samples. Details of each are included at Stitching Sewcial:
The front embroidery is covered and inside text is Minnie’s quote. It reads:
This one is for our 6 yo granddaughter. The inside text reads, “Vivian Rose, you are our favorite princess.”
More are posted. I had a hard time stopping, since these are so much fun to make.
But much more has been going on since I last posted here at Janice Ferguson Sews. Of course, Christmas was pure joy, with both of our children joining us with all four of our precious grandchildren. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Many gifts were stitched. Mug rugs caught my attention and I made several for my daughter-in-law, but didn’t manage to get a photo. These are so much fun and make great gifts. She is our nature girl and really liked the apron I embroidered for her with this fabulous bear from Urban Threads.
I replaced the topstitching with brown thread.
Many loved ones received my standard gift of dishtowels and homemade jams.
Our precious church granddaughter Beatrice was a vision of baby beauty in her Old Fashioned Baby Christmas dress. Her headband had a feltie with a tiny deer to match her dress.
Now, after months and months of worry and frustration, her adoption is complete and joy abounds.
I really got into felties and made one to go with granddaughter Vivian Rose’s dress.
The stacked cats Christmas tree design is from Apex Embroidery designs. Their designs are great! The gifts below were added from various other sites.Cute white leggings with big red and green polka dots went with the dress, but I missed a picture of that.
It was almost a repeat of last year’s smash hit Christmas frock but it was an enormous upgrade with the new lining. She wanted to wear it with the lining on the outside, but that was not allowed.
The whole feltie obsession came as a result of the felties offerred at this etsy site, Mommy’s Apron Strings. I downloaded the snowman and gingerbread boys (offered free for a short time) and attached them to 25 hairbows for all the little girls at church. Of course, I had to have something for the boys, so I made pencil toppers for them, using the same designs on the blank pencil topper included in the set I offered here. But did I take pictures? No! I was stitching late into the night and handed them out the next morning.
The other winner Christmas gift was a set of two fleece quillows for my son’s twin Comanche plane, embroidered with just the tail numbers. He had asked for them and was so pleased!
Again, this is probably more than you wanted or needed to know, but I am so far behind that I wanted to let you know I have not given up sewing or blogging. I hope you will check back to see more, posted more frequently. But then again,
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