Mollie had a birthday party last weekend. We decided on a covered journal as the gift. Moo picked the design. I did the rest.
I think the embroidery design would have looked a bit better if I had threaded my bobbin correctly. With my machine, I have to thread the bobbin through a little finger to increase tension while I am doing embroidery. I had forgotten to do it! I took a photo of the back of the embroidery.
You can see there is lots of white, but really there should be more colour like down on the back of the name. I ran out of bobbin thread when I got to the name and that is when I discovered my mistake. The design took me an hour to stitch out, so I wasn't keen to do it over. I figured a 7 year old girl wasn't going to be that critical!
When I set up to do embroidery, I usually have several projects in mind because if I am going to set up to do it and drag out all of my supplies, I might as well do as much as I can. So I embroidered some more designs for journal covers. (all of these designs are by Luzia Pimpinella and are available at Huups.)
10 comments:
The covers are wonderful.
I try to do the same, if I start to assemble my embroidery machine and look for all the bits and pieces what you need to do it :-)
They look fantastic! I'm so out of touch with what one can achieve with a home sewing machine. Amazing.
Stunning Sara. Love that paisley!
Love them. The other day I did a stitch out took an hour. and it was only after stopping and starting a gazillion times because the threads were breaking that I realised I was missing a notch when threading the machine - DOH, when you don't use it - you lose it LOL.
The covers look really nice and I like the fabric on the inside too.
it is so pretty! I just baught an embroidery machine and I can't wait till it arrives and I get to try it out!
...wow, so nice!!!!
♥ Nathalie
They are so beautiful!
LG Lena
They are so beautiful! You certainly can't tell that anything is wrong from the front :)
These are so fantastic Sara :)
Also, I nominated you for an award on my blog ;)
The covers looks wonderful,Sara!Great work!
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