The Accidental Embroiderer

Two more large panels and a short break

It’s back to the large panel project this week. I’ve been working hard on a lot of different things but can’t show them on the blog as yet, so I’ll return to this old project, which involved making a collection of very large panels - 10 ½ x 16 inch (272 x 408 mm)

Here are two more of them, featuring flowery motifs. Cherri (who stitched these out) did them on a strongly patterned background fabric, and although this makes for a very effective overall impression it also makes it difficult to pick out the embroidered details, so I’ve cleaned up the background of these images up on graphics software to make them a bit easier to see clearly

 

 

 

You can see what I mean about a strongly patterned background making it difficult to see the details. But you can take my word for it that the overall effect with the background is very effective, and the pattern really adds to the overall effect

Now – next week we’re off for a very welcome holiday in the English Lake district. It’s a beautiful part of the country, in the county of Cumbria, and we’re really looking forward to it. But it does mean that I won’t be back blogging until sometime in June, so June’s freebie will be a little late. But it should arrive eventually, and will be another one for you cat lovers. So see you in June!

 

Some more leafy freebies

At the end of March I posted a couple of freebies, which may not have been very exciting in themselves but which might have proved useful if you were making quilts or various different kinds of decorative embroidery. They were simple and stylised and would fit in well with other brighter, more eye-catching designs

Well, several people said they liked that sort of useful design, so here are three more from roughly the same school. They’re all variations on the leaf-and-stem motif, and I hope will come in handy for some projects. They’re all for the 4x4 inch (100 x 100 mm) hoop, and they all have just two or three colours – green for the leaves, and dark green and dark brown for the stems

 

Leaf square number 3

 

Leaf square number 4

 

Leaf square number 5

 

Here is the file for number 3, here is number 4 and here is number 5. They’re all in .pes v.6 - hope they work well for you!