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July 01, 2005
Tiny Embroidery Tiny Garden
This is my first real experiment with machine embroidery. The ground and most of the grass is machine, with some more grass and the flowers added by hand on felt and linen. The design is based on a wonderful Japanese embroidery book I have called Tiny Embroidery Tiny Garden (info on my library page).
I'm very encouraged by it. The last time I attempted any machine embroidery it was a disaster. Of course, setting out to make a weed garden helps with a multitude of problems. :) If you look at the back of this one, you can tell that I still don't have the tension quite right, but it's getting closer. I felt a little smoother moving the fabric under the needle, too. I'm thinking of making a little triptych of tiny weed gardens to frame and hang up.
Posted under Cross Stitch/Embroidery at July 1, 2005 11:05 PM
Comments
I reeeallly love it.
Posted by: Angela haglund at July 2, 2005 12:37 AM
this is the coolest thing i've seen in a long time! is this programmed on your machine or done by freehand? this is amazing! thanks for sharing.
Posted by: jenny vorwaller at July 2, 2005 11:42 AM
Thank you! It's all freehanded on my plain old sewing machine. You hoop some fabric, drop the feed dogs, and just kind of move the fabric around. I've got a couple of books that have been helpful getting started.
Posted by: Maitreya at July 2, 2005 12:19 PM
maitreya - it's gorgeous! i love it!!
Posted by: lisa at July 2, 2005 12:40 PM
it is wonderful.
post the back too.
keep going!
Posted by: laura r. at July 3, 2005 09:59 AM
That's truly gorgeous! That could be a great project for me to try to break in my new darning/embroidery foot...
Posted by: kelly at July 5, 2005 01:28 PM
ah-this is so good. I too have been getting really into this free motion thing, like on my home on the range apron, it's so great and yours looks amaing!!!
Posted by: amy k. at July 8, 2005 06:10 PM
oh my goodness, what a fabulous idea! this is my first time to your site (linked from hilary bragging about your bird purse) -- your blog is very easy on the eyes! can't wait to see the third in the triptych!
Posted by: kristen at July 14, 2005 01:26 AM
Wow. Stunning. It's so nice to see something new.
Posted by: carrie at July 24, 2005 04:02 PM
Oh, that's wonderful! I really want to try something like that.
Posted by: Donna at March 31, 2006 12:57 AM
amazing!!
Posted by: momo at March 31, 2006 01:21 AM
yes, I like it too!
Posted by: Annika Sandin at April 13, 2006 12:31 AM
wow very creative!
Posted by: Thais at April 26, 2006 05:22 PM
It is so simple to the eye yet so beautifllu elegant!
Posted by: Joe at May 24, 2007 04:20 PM
I realy love it!
It's so delicate.
Posted by: Eva at August 24, 2007 06:49 PM