A new embroidery project

Hello, everyone.  Today's post is to share with y'all a new machine embroidery project: the Quintessential Wallet from Sweet Pea. 

These are the inside of the wallet/purse and the front flap. (Bottom)

The deal with this project is that the various parts are embroidered one by one in the hoop, using the canned programs for each piece. At the end, you move to the sewing machine and assemble the pieces into a whole.

Soooo glad the folks at Sweat Pea have made a pair of YouTube videos showing how to make this. Also very happy that DH was available to help pull the project right side out at almost the end. My hands were not really up to the job.

The plain outside fabric, from stash, is left over from covering barstools for the palapa. The inside, and outside accent panel on the flap, is from  line of Aboriginal Australian prints that are really quite colorful. Though I like better the purple print from that line that was used in the sewing machine dust covers a while back.

The quilting on the outside is part of the computer files.

You need to use a sturdy needle for this stuff, if you use a fainting violet of a tiny one it will break. Just saying. 

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.