Another project done

Hello, everyone. I know this is a boring title, but am at a loss for anything cute to say about this project. 

At sewing club this month we worked on reading pillows. These are a combination of art pillow to lean on and a pocket to put a book into. Generally people like to decorate them with cute pictures and sayings.

Here's a dinosaur telling us how great books are.

For me this involved trying out a new skill. The dinosaur design is actually designed for a smaller pillow. Our club was doing 18" pillows for this. In addition,  the largest size was just a little too wide for the length of my longest embroidery hoop. So I used the multi hooping abilities of my software to split the dinosaur pocket design into 2 smaller, overlapping hoopings. This after a little fiddling seemed to be going okay. The software created file 1 and file 2.

I started out with file 1. Oops. Should have started with file 2. File 1 creates letters inside the conversation bubble in front of the dinosaur.  File 2 creates the applique conversation bubble for those, and other, letters. Having done file 1 first, I went with having all of the letters appearing on the background fabric. 

Lesson learned: look carefully to see if it matters what order the files sewing out in.

I think the dinosaur is cute anyway, even if the gray swirls are showing through the letters.