The Accidental Embroiderer

Back again!

Well, touch wood, Typepad seems to be able to publish images again, so let's hope for the best...

Anyway, as I've probably bored you with before, all my time over the past weeks has been spent desperately trying to finish all the things I want to exhibit at our yearly NEOS (that’s North East Open Studios) event. This consists of a huge number of art events all over Aberdeenshire, and our local art group always has a big exhibition where I show some of my things and also give demonstrations of machine embroidery

Last week I took everything in to the framers to be finished off properly, so I can now draw a deep breath and relax a little. At least I’m not short of a few new things to show here! 

Looking at the list of exhibition pictures, there are an awful lot of birds - probably 10 out of 12 pictures involve birds in some way. OK, I do tend to draw birds a lot more often than anything else, but I really should try to extend my repertoire! Anyway let’s start with one of these. I’m not sure where the idea came from, but for some reason I wanted to do a picture in dramatic shades of black and white, and this bird with the feathery tail came to mind. It’s unusual but it has a certain drama, so I’m reasonably happy with it

 

Featherbird

It has a certain Baroque feeling to it, and I think I feel a series of Baroque birds coming on. We'll see what happens...

Problems, problems...

It was bad enough that I had major problems uploading the last free designs, but now I can't even add an image to my posts, and as there's not much point to a design blog without images, I'm well and truly stuck

I will try and sort this out with Typepad but meanwhile please don't think that I've forgotten the blog - nothing could be further from the truth

See you later - I hope!

Another month, another freebie

First - an announcement! People have been having problems downloading this freebie - this was due to problems with Typepad. I THINK I've sorted out the problem now, so that the design should download successfully. However if you have problems, just drop me a line via the "Comments" page and I'll send you the design as an e-mail attachment. Very sorry about this!

Now - for the design. Here's a simple medallion shape which isn’t perhaps very exciting, but it might prove useful here or there in your sewing projects. Maybe on a quilt or something like that? And I hope it is useful, because I have several more in the same sort of format which I’ll get ready to give you in the next month or so.

   Maybe not exciting, but perhaps useful?

Anyway the design is 4x4 inches (100 x 100 mm) and the background is appliqueed on. However you can easily leave out the applique if you prefer and stitch the design straight on to the background fabric. Indeed you can even leave out the "mint green" frame (colour number 4) and it should still stitch out with no problems

 Here it is, in .pes v.6. By the way, if this is your first time using free designs from this blog, bear in mind that the link is the word "Here". Just click it and the download should start