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I have decided to try my hand at embroidery I bought my self two pillow cases with roses and thread if this works out I will buy a table cloth.
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Greenthumb
So many seeds...so little time!
Good for you. I hope they turn out nice. I have always wanted to do embroidery on linens, but have so many other projects to do that I have not bothered. Maybe one day soon. You may have inspired me!
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Embroidery is beautiful work!! Years ago, I taught a craft/quilt class...we took quilted fabric squares in an ecru color and cut them about 16" square. Then we took an embroidery pattern, like a basket of flowers, or candlewicking, and copied it on a xerox machine. Then we took it and placed it faced down on the fabric and pressed it with an dry iron...but we had to be careful because it easily scorched. After the pressing is done...the pattern is transfered onto the fabric, and you have your flowers or birds or whatever to embroider. We also did applique blocks squares and tole painting on some squares. Then we assembled all the squares together to make a quilt. Some women bought fabric, like the calicoes, to make sashes between each square and for borders as well. And it turned out to be the most beautiful embroidered quilt!
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country woman said:
Ah - that is slightly different to embroidery. I tried embroidery a while ago, but I prefer Cross Stitch, not that I have much time to do it at the moment. I have several unfinished projects on the go.
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Printed cross stitch. I started it today.I am going to work on it a little everyday.
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Morning Dove
Stichhaltig schlafen!
I used to do a lot of embroidery. Not so much anymore, but I love to do it. I know there are a lot of embroidery threads in my sewing kit. All I need is some samplers....and go for it. 
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Hi LostnFound...
Sad to say, #1...there were no pictures, and I never thought about taking one and #2...as with most things...my house is pretty void of crafts...however, everyone else in my family has walls full of stuff, lol. I never finished a whole embroidered quilt for myself, but did a wallhanging for my Mom and helped the women in the class with theirs...so, no pictures...but it sure was pretty.
This was in the mid 1980's when I taught that class and the blocks were different, as I said...a couple different candlewicking blocks...an applique block, one was tole painted/stenciled and then the rest were embroidered. And the prettiest one, I thought, was of two partridges or doves and there was a heart between them. And the stitch was called a Russian knot or something like that...not a French knot, but a variation and it was beautiful a beautiful stitch. I would have to find a book of stitches to refresh my memory...
I had gone to the library at one point and found some books on crewel embroidery and they had some of the patterns we did in those books. I have a few of the patterns left over, but because my husband and I are not in our home state for the next few months, all my patterns are in storage...
I hope to do a whole embroidered quilt for me one day...lol
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What exactly is embroidery - I mean how do you do it? I have tried cross-stitch but it was years ago and I got bored but I would mind trying that again and maybe trying embriodery.... I like to learn new crafts!!!
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When I first learned to do embroidery, I bought of one of those little Jiffy stitchery kits...it does a 5x7 picture...and it came with the stamped picture, the floss and needle...you just need to get your own hoop to hold your work. Their directions on each stitch were pretty easy to follow...and the project was not so big that you get overwhelmed...that might be a good place to start to learn your embroidery stitches...
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okay i might try that - thank you!!! it sounds like a kit would be the best place to start
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Victorian Rose
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beetlequeendiva said:okay i might try that - thank you!!! it sounds like a kit would be the best place to start
it is. my mom bought one some time ago before Christmas and gave it to me to do. I got it done in about a week and then it disappeared. Next thing I know, it shows up on one of my christmas presents.
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Rainbow Rose said:it is. my mom bought one some time ago before Christmas and gave it to me to do. I got it done in about a week and then it disappeared. Next thing I know, it shows up on one of my christmas presents.
LOL. My mom does same thing to me. Give me kit do new craft and if not get done time she thinks should she takes it back to finish and give me back for birthday or chistmas....
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I have been thinking of taking some of my plain blouses in the closet, and adding some embroidered flowers on them, that is on collars, pockets, etc., and making them all a little fancier. Plus, they will be more of a "one of a kind" thing. 
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Paisley Rose said:I have been thinking of taking some of my plain blouses in the closet, and adding some embroidered flowers on them, that is on collars, pockets, etc., and making them all a little fancier. Plus, they will be more of a "one of a kind" thing.
Think that be cool. Would look nice.
always enjoy see someone with hand embroidery on clothes. Much time have to stop ask if they did or someone gave to them...LOL
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