Does anyone do embroidery by hand anymore?
#186
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Heart of Colorado's majestic mountains!
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I still hand embroidery quite a bit. I love to do it and use it to fill in bits of time here and there. I particularly enjoy redwork and have several squares done ready to put into a wall hanging. I also have a panel of carousel animals to do. I collect carousel figures for bedroom decor. I think there are also lots of people who do the hand work crafts. Embroidery is something you can do without a whole lot of expenditure and equipment. Embroidering something is a whole lot more satisfying than always playing with the phone apps! Uhg!
#188
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
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I enjoy cross stitching Holiday themes. I have several framed for Christmas, one patriotic. I made white dish towel sets (7 days of the week) for each grandchild’s wedding shower. (1 more to go). I also have on hand a few embroidered dish towels since a couple of towels make a great birthday gift. I’ve started blocks for a baby girl quilt top but it’s a UFO. I had a box of old embroidered things made by Grandma & Mom. I backed the design with Wonder Under & cut around it them used machine decorative stitch to attach to white dish towels. Then I can wear them out with using because I don’t want to donate to thrift shop.
#189
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Indiana
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I do. I don't do it as much as I would like to, but I'm hoping to get back into it next year. I have always liked the look of hand embroidery. I recently bought several balls of perle cotton to use for some projects.
#190
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Central NJ
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I, too, learned hand embroidery at a young age - long, long ago. Have not done any in years. I need to do some though. I am the 'keeper' of the family Christening gown. My plan is to hand embroider all of the children's names and birthdates on the gown. There are currently 3 generations to do. I'm expecting that the next generation will be just around the corner so I really need to get moving on this. Just haven't figured out how to go about it.
Thinking I will just type up some of the names/dates in my Word program in various sizes and fonts and hold behind the gown to see what seems most appropriate. Then I suppose I could lightly trace everything in pencil onto the gown?? Any thoughts as to a better method?? I think I'll use an ecru colored thread so it's not overwhelming. The gown itself was hand stitched by a friend of my grandmother's for my uncle's Christening. He is now 74.
Thinking I will just type up some of the names/dates in my Word program in various sizes and fonts and hold behind the gown to see what seems most appropriate. Then I suppose I could lightly trace everything in pencil onto the gown?? Any thoughts as to a better method?? I think I'll use an ecru colored thread so it's not overwhelming. The gown itself was hand stitched by a friend of my grandmother's for my uncle's Christening. He is now 74.
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