Author: Suz

Faye’s great idea

Hello Suz,

Attached is a picture of candle wraps, sewn on tulle, that I made using designs from your 13th Anniversary set in 2016.  They are perfect  for this idea for stitching on tulle because they are fill stitches.

They look great Faye and such an easy but unique gift! Suz

BFC1626 2016 13th Anniversary Flowers

These are also available as singles – scroll down on the above page to the related designs.

Coleen’s Rose Window

Hi Suz, finally completed the 29 pieces. I did change a couple of things which may be useful to others too. I was able to purchase heavy weight black stabiliser/ interfacing, one side adhesive which helped. Also med.weight black stabiliser for sewing out. This meant that when the satin stitch edge was carefully cut neither is evident. Also used a little fray stopper around the edges for loose small frays on the edge. I put a small circle of adhesive Pell on in the centre as the curves were a little crinkly, and was able to quilt these pieces to smooth out a bit.

A challenging work but pleased with the result.

Would you tell me if YOU  digitised the design so that I can acknowledge your work when/if I am able to enter it in Canberra Quilter’s exhibition. It might not be til next year with the current corona virus situation.

Colleen

Great idea about the black stabilizer!

BFC1243 Waratah Rose Window

Laura’s Iris Fields

Howdy!  Happy Spring-ish. It’s 60 plus degrees in Indiana today, and supposed to snow next week.  I always feel really sad for all the early blooming flowers this time of year, ’cause you never know if they will make it to real spring or freeze trying.  With all that said, I want to show you a picture of Spring that we don’t ever have to worry about.  Thank you for your beautiful IRIS FIELDS.  The only liberty I took outside of your color list was to use a variegated green in place of the  Light Lime.  I really like how it turned out.  It reminds me of fresh cut lawn grass.  I hope you approve.  Thanks again,

BFC0434 Windows – Iris Fields

Suzanne’s Thread Wall

As I have all sizes of threads and a couple different brands including BFC’s for me having them up on a pegboard is best.  I keep a towel over them to keep the dust off, I’ve labeled them so I know where each spool goes once I’m done with them.  I’ve done this for all my threads putting them closest to the machine that uses them.  THis pic was taken before I collected all of BFC’s threads but you get the idea.  I added BFC’s where I had the stablilizers on the wall.

Laura’s Dragons

The cutest dragons, ever!  This is my latest wall hanging.  As you can see, I added some crystals to the finished designs.  Might I suggest to anyone that wants to use these designs on dark fabric to use an opaque, vinyl, topper under the moon part of the embroidery designs.  I did not and as you can see, the dark background fabric bleeds through.  Also, I used gold, metallic thread as the outline stitches because black thread did not show up against the dark background fabric.

Thanks again for these wonderful, smile producing designs.  Until next time,

Laura

BFC31682 Delight’s Sleepy Time

 

BFC31681 Delight’s My Stars

BFC31683 Delight’s Hi There!

 

Tzu’s Kentucky Triptych

I’m happy to say Im finished and even with my boo boo’s I absolutely love it ! my learning curve has taught me several things for my next one . Oh and while Im no where near y’alls level 2 things that greatly helped me and I quickly figured out was 1 while sewing panels of all embroidery together was to use quilting gloves the grip you get is fantastic and it never hurts the embroidery at all making feeding it to your machine a breeze , # 2 while my feed dogs and foot worked together the grip of my foot seemed to ever so slightly misalign my pieces from bottom panel well a teflon foot ( I know supposed to be for leather lol ) stopped all the misalignment hope this helps someone 😉 . Here is my version of Kentucky Triptyc

Great suggestion Tzu!  I’m trying this the next – I have a pair of gloves I never use. 🙂 Suz

BFC1285 Kentucky Stained Glass Triptych

 

Anita’s Daydreams by Delight

It’s been a long time finishing! Surgery and recovery got in the way. But I’m so pleased with the design.🤩 Thank you Suz Makalinaw for this terrific design. My daughter is going to love it! Had to put glass over it so her kitties don’t destroy it.😉sorry about the glare😶

BFC2010 Delight’s Daydreams, Tiled Designs