They are just decorative. A friend from Savanah sent me a very small book mark that had this entire panel on it. I enlarged it to a size that I thought I wanted to embroidery and then created the blocks to fit the size of the panel.

You did a great job on it! It looks terrific!

thanks Rhonda.

Di

Maureen - your SBS is beautiful. I love her in red- and bluework! That will be a lovely quilt when you finish. Please keep posting pictures.

I used to do a lot of crewel and needlepoint. Then I discovered quilting, and there was no turning back. For years, I was a handquilter. I have doublejointed thumbs, and when arthritis attacked them, it hurt too much to hand quilt, so now I'm learning to machine quilt. I bought an embroidery machine, so I could use outlines of embroideries as quilt designs. Also, I bought 4D Extra software, so I can design my own quilt designs. That's the closest I can come now to hand work. But I still love hand quilting by other people!

Maureen - your SBS is beautiful. I love her in red- and bluework! That will be a lovely quilt when you finish. Please keep posting pictures.

I used to do a lot of crewel and needlepoint. Then I discovered quilting, and there was no turning back. For years, I was a handquilter. I have doublejointed thumbs, and when arthritis attacked them, it hurt too much to hand quilt, so now I'm learning to machine quilt. I bought an embroidery machine, so I could use outlines of embroideries as quilt designs. Also, I bought 4D Extra software, so I can design my own quilt designs. That's the closest I can come now to hand work. But I still love hand quilting by other people!

Synthrapol - 1-3 tsp per wash - I used it with my black fabric, and it worked!

I do some hand embroidery. I especially like the Crabapple Hill patterns. They are great for hand embroidery. I don't even know if one could machine do these patterns. You can go to her web site at crapapplehillstudios.com, I think.

I still do. Never have learned how to do it on the sewing machine. I'm still pretty much old school :D :D

Hi Rhonda,
Yes, I do embroidery by hand. I don't own an embroidery machine and truthfully I don't want one. For me, there is nothing more beautiful than to see hand embroidery on any type of work. I belong to an organization named "Warm Hearts, Warm Babies" and I just finished embroidering several blocks to be made into a quilt.

Charlotte Stollsteimer

Yes I do embroidery by hand. In my quilt class, we actually do handwork project on the side inbetween our quilt projects. Last year I did "periwinkle" houses which are colored with crayons, heat set and then embroidered. This year I'm doing a redwork alphabet. I don't really like the look of machine embroidery.