Originally Posted by Carsey
RNUNU: Thanks!! My daughter (who is 37 now and not a creative bone in her body....I'm sad) is excited to know that other people around the world will be working on her quilt top. It doesn't matter if it is paper pieced, foundation pieced, embroidered, or any other kind of sewing.... it will be treasured!!!! Since I had to print out the patterns to embroider on the letter size fabric, I had to add borders around each block to get them to 12 1/2 inch so there are quite a few pieces sewn together. I plan to put a 3-D flower and stem border around the finished top.
Originally Posted by RNUNU
Originally Posted by Carsey
Here are the pictures of my row. My daughter gave me a Mother's Day card that says she is my garden because I nurtured her and helped her to grow. When I decided to do a garden row, she asked me if I was going to put in a little girl. At first I didn't know what she was talking about but then she reminded me of the card. Well, I made a copy of the card and added a picture of my daughter when she was 3 months old and then added ribbon embroidery flowers and a bee on the sides of her and then ended up with 2 paper pieced birdhouses on each end. This is the first time I have ever done ribbon embroidery and learned it from a book. Needless to say, it is not perfect but I like it!! I still need to applique the holes on the birdhouses and maybe add another bee, dragonfly and butterfly. I will probably darken the words on the card center with my pigma pen, but I might wait until it gets back. Let me know what you think. I can always do something else.
Caesey --- What a "Fantastic" story and "Beautiful" work. This will be the ultimate treasure of your daughter's life .... and so "original". I am a creative person, always thinking about the next thing I could put together .... never throw anything away, without thinking first, "What could I make out of this"!
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Your row is just stunning.