The project completed

 Hello, everyone.

It's been busy around Ye Olde Homestead these last few days--is it ever not busy at Christmas time?--and some of the busy was finishing up the embroidery project from the last post.

This is the front of the tote bag. There are a variety of different skills that were used to finish the embroidery. The new one for me was the multi-hooping technique of embroidering something that is too big for the hoop. The program came with a step for match points, both on part 1 and part 2, which were later picked out as not part of the design.

I elected to box the lower corners. The bag as set up was basically flat and it didn't seem as useful as a bag with boxed corners. So I added that at the end. This bag broke 2 needles, and stalled the motor on my regular-duty sewing machine. It had to be finished on the HD-3000 with a size 16 topstitch needle. 

I think that, while the bicycle as digitized is more conceptual than realistic, I might make another tote bag with the design. Possibly omitting the cute words at the bottom. There is a good sized chunk of beige twill cotton in the stash and it might work out well as a tote bag.

(Of course some of that twill is already going into another bag. But there's a lot left.)

We had a day of Grandma Camp also in the last week, and DGD wanted to make a Christmas ornament.

We did a felt one, using freezer paper to get the cutting reasonably smooth, and she chose beads and stitched them on to the felt. 

This was her first time stitching beads onto a piece of felt, not in an embroidery hoop, and she designed her lines by herself. There are two kinds of seed beads here, a pink/clear blend and a gold.

We glued the back to the front as time was running short that day, with some Tacky Glue.