Pretty Raspberries

This is one of Sonia Showalter's designs. She has a whole raspberry alphabet that is being released a letter at a time, along with corner accents and other raspberry designs. These sure add elegance to table linens, towels, etc.

Easter Towels

I made Easter towels using a bunny design from Strawberry Stitch Co. The guys got celery green rabbits, and the girls got soft pink rabbits. These were stitched on cream Microfiber Waffle Weave Towels. I think everyone was happy with their gift!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Here are some of the gifts all ready to give. I like to make my daughters a dishtowel for most every holiday, as you probably know if you read this blog. These were towels from Kohl's, and I added an embroidered heart and the name. I love Valentine's Day.

Here is one of the towels, with the accompanying card. The card base is kraft cardstock, with some Hero Arts cupcake images, and a sentiment by Studio G. Some rhinestone bling finishes it off.





And here is another version. Normally I embroider on plain microfiber towels, but Kohls usually has such cute towels for Halloween, Valentine's Day and Easter, that I purchase the towels from there, and add some embroidery.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Leopard

This design stitched up very striking! The leopard has a very realistic look to him when you see this towel in person. The towel was a gift to my daughter in Kansas. She displayed it in a powder room on the main floor, which added a nice decorative accent. The design is a stock design that I purchased from Strawberry Stitch. It has almost 46,000 stitches in it.


Here is a closeup view.

Embroidery Machine is hummin!

I haven't posted in such a long time. I hope to do better in 2010. I love to embroider snowmen, so this year's gift towels will once again have snowmen on them! The designs I picked are quite large in terms of stitchcount, so it takes a while. I have cranked the machine up pretty high...except for when it is stitching metallic thread, which is more fragile and requires a slower machine speed. Just ordered 150 additional microfiber waffle weave towels, with hopes of getting my Etsy shop stocked. I haven't used the cream colored towels before, so ordered 30 of those, as well as some dark brown towels which are nice, too. I am loving the olivey-green ones for these snowmen...the burgundy is a nice contrast. Well, back to the grind. Hope everyone is getting everything done! Seems like December runs on a faster clock! Merry Christmas!

Sunflower Splendor

I think I want to hold on to summer! Sunflowers seem so summery. Lately our weather has been anything but "summer-like". It has been unseasonably cool even for autumn.

This design is another one of Sonia Showalter's, available here.  Lots of pretty embroidery designs to browse through! If you are an embroider, these original designs by Sonia are superbly digitized.

The Etsy shop is bare right now. Hope to remedy that this week! Thanks for stopping by. The sun is out today, yay!

Wedding Cake and Card

This design was embroidered on a beige microfiber towel, using the colors the bride has chosen for her wedding. Lots of texture and dimension in this design. The card has similar browns and pink, and was made using images from a Stampin Up retired set called Natural Beauty. I was pleased with how this gift turned out!