Recently I was asked by a friend and neighbour to design and stitch some embroideries that she could make into a quilt that she was creating for a young relative. All the designs were to be of plants and animals that were of significance to the person who was going to receive the quilt, and as a result I needed to draw and digitise some things that I'd never tried to do before
Today I'm posting the first two of these. Obviously the quilt recipient must be very interested in mushrooms, because on my list of Things To Do were two different kind of mushrooms, and here are the first of them. These particular ones are ceps, also called porcini. They're very popular ingredients in elegant cooking, but I'd never seen embroideries of them, so these may be a first!
Maybe the first ever embroidery of porcini!
The second design is perhaps less unusual but all the same I don't think I've seen many embroidered frogs.
A froggy embroidery
I wish I could meet the quilt recipient – she must be a fascinating person to have so many unusual interests!
the mushroom is quite common in Sweden, if you are one of those going out in the woods picking your own, that is 😉 My mum usally just fries them up with a little cream and makes a sandwich
and the froggie is adorable!
I think the frog with the fern is my favorite, but really like the mushrooms too.
I really like both very much and I think it is because they are something you don’t see everyday
Oh, but you are good at doing frogs!!! As I love my tree frog…that you designed.
He is very special to us. But right now, not visiting with us as we had flooding yesterday, and ice and some snow today.