The Accidental Embroiderer

Oh no! Not another free bird!

Yes, here's yet another one to add to what must be your massive collection of colourful free birds! And I know it’s not quite July yet, but I promised this freebie to some people a few days ago so I think I’d better get it out now. 

 

Yet another one...

 

I can’t remember exactly when or why I did it but it looks a bit folk-arty, so perhaps it dates from my Pennsylvania Dutch phase. It’s a simple enough design, for the 4x4 inch (100 x 100 mm) hoop, and it’s embroidery only, no applique.

Here it is, in .pes v.6. Good luck with it!

 

 

Some shiny (?) fish

Sorry for the long silence, but as I explained, I’m not able to post now as much as I usually do, because I really have to concentrate on things that I can show at this year’s exhibitions. OK, I know that it’s a couple of months now before I have to have anything ready, but it can take a long time to do something complicated enough to be worth exhibiting, so I have to get started early

But at last I have a couple of things which should be OK, and this week we have another design that is meant to show off the effects of Mylar (that is, plastic film). The problem is that there aren't very many subjects that are really suited to Mylar, and the one I always come back to is fish

 

Oh dear - they don't look as shiny as they really are :-(

 

They’re really well suited to stitching with Mylar, because the stitching of the scales can emphasise the shininess of the plastic film - although I have to admit that this scan doesn’t show the scales to be nearly as shiny as they really are. Maybe a couple of close-ups will show them to be shinier

 

Shinier in close-up?

So they're better when you can see them in detail. But that's really enough fish for the time being, and I’ll eventually have to discover a new way of using Mylar. Perhaps it could be part of the design of a glass vase filled with flowers? We’ll see what I can come up with in the coming weeks!

A free dustbunny

I’ve always loved when people say “dustbunny” to mean one of those annoying little dustballs you get under furniture when you haven’t swept a room in a while. It’s such a good description and I began to wonder what a real dustbunny might look like. So that was the beginning of this month’s free dustbunny design.

 

A puzzled bunny

 

I think it has that puzzled look that you might see on the face of a real dustbunny that's spent its life under a bed!

It makes use of detailed overstitching, so there’s a lot of texture going on in the coat. It’s embroidery only - no applique - and it’s for the 5x7 inch (130 x 180 mm) hoop, so it’s actually quite a large rabbit. It’s not a conventional design but you could use it in a cushion or wall hanging for a child’s room. Here it is, in .pes v.6

By the way, I think I should just mention again that not all the designs I post here are available free - I’ve had one or two readers recently who have assumed that everything here is available as a free design, but I’m afraid that’s not true. I try to post freebies once a month, around the first of the month, and the posts always mention “free” in the title - like this month’s “A free dustbunny”