Sunday, March 1, 2009

I made this little dress for my first grandchild Emily, I used white velvet and embroidered butterflies using my Husqvarna Designer One, my first attempt at machine embroidery. I used the Teddy Bear as a model.
This is my first attempt at Batik, using hot oil to draw the outline then infilling with colour. As I cannot draw I just used straight lines and kept adding more to make more houses, Great fun!!
This is the first of my crazy embroidered handbags, the reverse side was golden brown. I really enjoy this technique and hope to make many more.
Here is my second Bargello quilt titled Äutumn", this is a much larger piece but still using quarter of a inch strips and larger. Enjoy
Here is the picture of my dolls
Last summer I bought a Cricut Die cutting machine and have been having fun cutting out shapes espcially using the Paper Doll Cartridge. I made some place setting figures trying to represent my friends. Everybody loved them and most people took them home with them.
I have titled my Bargello Quilt "Rainbows", It cheers me up on a dull day, the strips range from quarter inch to three quarters of an inch and it is the first in a series of three Bargello's I have
made. I hope it cheers you up too.