Embroidered Dish Towels

I embroidered some dish towels today.

I love the red and white stripe.

 

Halloween

It's Halloween.

Jessica got up early because she got to wear

her costume to school today.

She was very excited about that.

She was feeling very pretty today.

I hope to get more pictures of all the kids tonight.

 

She loved her shoes.

Getting ready for Halloween

This is what I did this week.

I am nearly done with Halloween.

Still need to make crinolines.

Did I mention I dislike Halloween.

 I made 3 monogrammed blouses.



 

 Pink poodle skirt.

(I made two of these)

 

 Purple poodle skirt.

 

 Turquoise poodle skirt.

Embroidery machine applique

This is my first attempt at machine applique.

Now that was Easy!!

Tomorrow is pajama and messy hair day at school

and Jessica needed some new pajamas.

This is the result.

I purchased the design from

 http://www.appliquecafe.com/

I thought the sleeping owl was cute.

Monogram

Monogrammed napkins I made for a wedding.

Also did a tablecloth with their names on it

but was unable to get a photo of it.

Birthday t-shirts

Opening birthday gifts and everyone

dressed in their t-shirts.

They where very cute.

Embroidery on t-shirts

We have friends from Vancouver coming to visit this weekend.

Their girls are good friends with our girls

and we have not seen them for a year.

All the girls are very excited.

Also, it is their oldest daughters birthday this weekend.

She said she would like a chocolate cake

with yellow icing.

So I thought the theme for the birthday

could be the color "yellow".

(Grandma's aren't aways that creative when

it comes to kids birthday parties.)

And I thought it would be fun for the girls

to all have the same t-shirts for the party.

We also got some yellow hair spray!!

I got the t-shirts at Michael's on sale

at 2 for $5.00.

What a good deal!!

The embroidery design is from Embroidery Library

and stitched out real nice.

Wedding gift

These hand embroidered t-towels where a wedding gift

for my mom in 1944.

My grandmother made thenm from flour sacks.

The hem is beautifully done in a hemstitch but

the picture did not show it well so

I didn't post it.

I love these.

It is fall around here.

The kids raked up a pile of leaves.

 I made another dog pillow.

I didn't post anymore pj pants.

Thought it might be getting borring.



Birthday gift & Pincushion

A note pad holder for a birthday present.

With personalized embroidery.

With a colourful fabric on the inside.

Just need to get a pack of markers or pencil crayons.

Perfect gift for an 11 year old!

Embroidered pincushion.

I have been wanting to make this one for a long time.

It was a free design/project from Oregon Patchworks.

Still working on Christmas

I don't usually do applique so thought I would try something easy. I just hand drew the shapes. I think maybe I need a little practise in the art department. These are flannel appliques and I am going to make pj bottoms to go with the t-shirts.

Also made some vintage style embroidered pillowcases. If you click on the picture you will get a better view of the embroidery.

Lace masks for Halloween

My daughter and her girls want to be the Barbie three musketeers for halloween. Well there is no pattern so we are going to have to create our own version of the costume. I will be going to her place the week of Thanksgiving to sew. Should be lots of fun.
I am doing some of the pre-work before I go. I embroidered these lace masks and then I am going to do some more lace pieces to embellish the costumes with. The lace masks turned out real nice I think. My embroidery machine is getting a real workout these days!