I love to hand embroider, but I've gotten lazy lately. I don't like to change the thread color...so of course redwork, bluework and blackwork are now my favorites. Love taking projects on road trips.

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*** I still do it.
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*** I did a 12 set of boys & girls into a quilt for a baby in England 2 years ago.
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*** Have a red work cat set done to sash with red &
*** assorted cat workers in assorted colors to quilt with lavender sashing.
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*** I just did a lot of Western embroidery on a shirt for Western Night at the dance.
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*** I have a black work of the State Quarters as an ongoing project.
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I finished Over the River. Loved every minute of it.

I do I find it so relaxing.. i too draw my own designs too.. I just taught my 9 year old granddaughter to hand embroidery also and she love doing it. old craft but a good one..

Love hand embroidery....my personal favourites and ones I work to perfect are cross stitching, Hardanger and Boutis.

I love to do redwork. I would like to do a bluework soon.

I can do hand embroidery but haven't in years. I do have a close friend who embroideries all year long while watching tv. She use Aunt Martha's transfer patterns and much more. She makes blocks and then I put them together and quilt it for her. We make a good team. Lol

I believe that hand embroidery is having a come back. My quilting friends are doing red work and blue work as a good take along project. My grand mother did a lot of fancy stitches and she taught me how to embroider. It was a good summer time project.

We spend alot of time in waiting rooms when my dh has dr appts One time I noticed a lady working on a monk's cloth with embroidery and asked about it. She called it swedish embroidery which I had never heard of.

My mom does cross stitch and she uses some monk's cloth sometimes as well as aida cloth.