Down time, cold days and weekends always make me want to curl up by a roaring fire. After I’ve been outside. It’s even better if you can do that with your loved ones. I love the outdoors and spend much time out there as possible.
Today, my daughter and I did just that. After being outside, we spent some of the day getting toasty bonding by our wood burning stove. The only thing missing was a thick mug of hot cocoa.
Afterwards, I went up to my crafting room and did some handcrafting. I worked on the project that I’ve shown below. Since I love autumn and the lovely leaves that have fallen in our yard, I decided to add some of those colors that I see to this embroidered design.
The embroidered design was created on sturdy cotton cloth and it was made into a small bag. The bag was lined with the same fabric, machine sewn and serged and a small tube (that a drawstring could pass through) was hand basted to the top to secure it in place. So you see… I was able to do some hand sewing! After the basted stitches were secured, I serged the seams and removed the hand basted stitches.
I must admit, it feels strange watching the machine doing all the stitch work. It can be hard for someone who loves creating sewing with their hands, to sit back and watch… but I’m getting better at watching the machine. Of course, there’s a lot that goes into machine embroidery before I can actually watch the machine. I need to chose the proper stabilizer, select the proper threads and hoop or float the material.
This isn’t the first time I created this design. The other two instances, when this was created, I wasn’t impressed with some of the threads I’d chosen. Yes, it was purely user error. You see… the outline thread that I chose was much too light for the fabric. The saying goes, that the third time is the charm and I must say I do adore the thread colors I chose for my embroidered bag.
It’s not one of my own designs, although I do make those using my Embird software; however, this design was purchased from Urban Threads. I love their machine embroidered designs. I’ve included what their sample looks like above, and the design is called Tree Goddess.