BFC Creations – Where Thread comes to life!
“THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS PICTURE OF YOUR DESIGNS SURROUNDED BY KONA BAY KOI FISH. THE BLUE CHINESE COIN FABRIC WAS USED ON THE BACK. THE PIECE WAS QUILTED WITH METALLIC THREAD AND RHINESTONES WERE ADDED FOR THE EYES.
I LOVE YOUR PATTERNS AND USE THEM OFTEN.
THANKS FOR YOUR CREATIVITY.
JOAN ”
I’m sorry I didn’t take any photos as I was making this, but I will try to explain best I can. I took a piece of fleece and cut out the base. I had a small memory foam bathmat and I used this as a pattern so I could put it inside when the tent was done. I cut two pieces of the fleece. I took some high loft poly fill and laid this in the center of one of the base pieces. I stitched all around the base about a half inch in from the edge.
I thhen measured around my base for the length of the next piece of fleece I would cut. I hung my tent from a hook in the wall in the arch over the alcove. It will also hang and work fine from a hook on a flat wall ( I had tried that just to move it around). I used one of those no mark hooks and so far it hasn’t budged! I decided how high I wanted the sides of the tent and used this for the other measurement on my piece of fleece. So I cut one piece:
length around the base by the desired height.
I stitched this piece around the base I had made. I placed the wrong side of the base along the edge of the side piece and stitched. The seam was inside the tent and doesn’t show. And by using fleece, there was no reveling. I started and stopped the stitch at the center of the base as this would be their flap.
I folded over the flap and pinned it. I then took some big pleats along the top edge to make it small enough to add a hanger. I stitched these pleats from the inside and trimmed the seam allowance.
I then folded the tent together and stitched across the top. This could be done from the inside so the seam won’t show. I stitched a heavy ribbon to make a loop to hand from my hook.
After sprinkling a little bit of catnip in the center of the tent it was ready for its occupants. They spent a LOT of time in this during the winter! I’d often see two little faces at the doorway.
You can of course add some cute cat designs to really make this a custom tent!
Please feel free to ask any questions as I know it’s hard without picture as I went along!
Suz
“Here are the photos that I want to share with you.
I think it turned out great, with your patterns and Sylvia’s silk!!!
God Bless
Reta”
I like the way Reta incorporated different sizes of the designs – it adds more interest to any grouping.
“I’m an embroidery fan from The Netherlands for 2 years now and finally dare to make one of those fine projects I see on your website.
After learning about embroidery en purchase a machine (Pfaff Creative Vision) and lots of try outs I now finisched a quilt from your site.
I thought maybe you like to see that even in Europe people love your artistic projects.
So here – bye…
Kind regards
Tiny Dobek”
Tiny sent me these photos in April of 2014. I’ve kept them through all the starts and stops of finding a good way to display our customers work. Thank you Tiny – you did a fantastic job. I can’t believe you were just starting to embroider back then!!
Thank you – Suz
I keep getting more and more spam emails from people I recognize. PLEASE – be sure to periodically change your passwords. If they can get in to use your email, the next things they do might be more sinister. PLEASE… for your protection and the protection of your friends.
Suz
*Suz,
Here is a photo of a framed windowless window design stitched on a 15″ x 21″ piece of balsa wood if you want for your blog.
John
Fabulous John! I know we all wish we could do this.!!!!
*Thank you so much for the lovely embroideries that you give.
Thank you for the BFC 10,000 member free designs, and the BFC 11th Anniversary free designs.
l promised you that l would send the quilt made with the 11th Anniversary designs, l am also resending the 10,000 member. l have put a few close ups the designs are so pretty and the colours show how pretty they are.
These are Vicki Purnell’s quilt designs.
Regards, Lexie*
From jc:
“I made this 24″ x 36″ 4 compartment tote to transport my wall hangings.
The handles are over 5 feet long and have a continuous embroidery design on them — Both the top and bobbin threads are continuous; no cuts or pieces.”
I LOVE Tote bags and use them for many things. (that will be a tutorial later on) but I hadn’t thought of making one large enough for wall hangings. I think this would be a great way to store our embroidered pictures when they aren’t gracing the walls. You could hang them on hooks int he back of a closet or a similar space. It would keep them clean and neat. You could even make totes for different types! I might add a zipper if I was going to use them for storage to make sure the embroideries didn’t get dusty.
This would be a great way to practice doing large designs too! If there is a little *boo-boo* somewhere it wouldn’t matter and you would have very interesting Embroidery Tote bags!
Great Project jc!!!!
It was a lot of fun to get Velda’s email with all her projects. Here is her words: “I’ve been working on some tile scenes that are my favorite. I love your work! I will say Winter Peace took me 3 tries. I embroidered it twice. Finished it 3 times. It’s important to square everything as you go. Learned that the hard way. Velda”
They are all beautiful Velda – you did so much work on them!! 🙂
BFC1504 Approach of the Kings – Complete
SueP of my Yahoo group told us about her new table! It sounds and looks wonderful.
SueP: “My new sewing room is now done. Hubby finished his part of the cutting table tonight. I still have some touch-up painting to do on it then I can start to unpack and sort all the supplies into the 35 new drawers. It is 93″ long and 42″ wide. I can’t wait to work on it”
Sandy: “What type of wood did your husband use to make the table? I had thought of getting some type of pressed board to make a large sewing table. I’m not sure of what it is called, but it is the size of plywood (4’ x 8’), but denser and heavier. I didn’t know if it would sag in the middle due to its length.”
SueP: “Thank you. Yes, you are describing the material he used. He built a frame under both top and bottom with 2×2 & 2x 3 lumber. Like you would build a wall. The legs are not adjustable; but we measured the height that I wanted to work at. It is slightly higher than a standard counter. He then laminated it with a smooth product used for making kitchen counters. I bought the drawers at WalMart.”
