Irish Pumpkin Festival

Our parish holds an annual Irish Pumpkin Festival each year about this time. My daughter and I have always contributed a basket for the raffle or silent auction. She makes a zig zag fabric basket and I embroider several dishtowels to include in it. She didn't see my towels when she made her basket...she just knew a general idea of the colors that would be in the towels...but when she brought the basket over for me to assemble it, everything just coordinated perfectly! The designs on two of my towels are from Sonia Showalter Designs, available here.

A Fabulous Pumpkin

 This is a great seasonal embroidery design, appropriate for the harvest season as well as halloween. The design was digitized by Sonia Showalter. You can see all of her fabulous designs here. I stitched it on a floursack dishtowel, and added a few buttons for embellishment. The little spider card was made from a digital stamp, that will be released later this month at BeanPodFrogShop.

Here are a couple of closeups. Notice the twisty stem on the pumpkin. Photos do not capture all the reflected light and how the embroidery seems to change color as you rotate it towards and away from the light.

Thanks for stopping by. Check back tomorrow to see a pretty Christmas horn design.