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Poppies for a Princess

“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

BFC0935 Art Quilt Princess Ka’iulani’s Poppies
BFC0935 Art Quilt Princess Ka’iulani’s Poppies
BFC0935 Art Quilt Princess Ka’iulani’s Poppies
BFC0935 Art Quilt Princess Ka’iulani’s Poppies

Sheer Tulip

“I was hoping this would work as an applique using glitter.  It was very hard to trim away the excess glitter.  For me it works fine and I will have to clip several of the friskies showing in the photo.  Can hardly see them in person.

What I did was fuse fabric to the back of the glitter then went on as usual.  I assume if I had used the design on something, trimming would be easier.In person, it really is a lovely design and glad I tried it as an applique.

Joan”

 

BFC1651 Sheer Tulips

Lexie’s Quilts

*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*

BFC1458 Celebrate Spring

 

BFC1416 11th Anniversary Set

Large Embroidered Tote

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!!!!

Velda’s been busy!!!

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

BFC0593 Window – Sunflowers and Finches
BFC0573 Rock Point Bridge Over Rogue River Oregon
BFC0496 Window – Poppy Fields
BFC0783 Window – Four Seasons – Winter Peace

 

 

 

A wonderful Sewing Worktable

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.”

A Mermaid Bag

From Karen:  “I just finished  a bag  I have  been  designing     On what  fun      Thought you would  get a  kick  out  of  it    The embroidery is  done on black  velvet    The colors are what II saw last  time  I saw them  ggggggggg”

BFC0114 Women of Fantasy

Great Bag Karen – perfect for the tow ladies – the Mermaid and the Model!

 

I’ve always had a soft place in my heart for this mermaid.  I did her in Dec, of 2003 – I started the website in Nov. of that year so I was still very new to all of this.  I remember how excited I was when I discovered I could make her tail sheer .  LOL  I was afraid someone would be offended so back then I added something about if they  would prefer, the tail could be stitched two or three times.