A free heart from the past

It’s a new month again so it’s time for a freebie. Here’s another one I found in my long-ago files – I can’t remember what I meant to do with it but it seems to date from the time I did a lot of Pennsylvania-Dutch inspired things. It has an appliqué area (the large heart shape) and it’s for the 5×7 inch (130 x 180 mm) hoop, but the design itself is just 4 1/2 inches (115 mm) wide.

Be careful of the pinks!

A word of warning – don’t make the same mistake that I did! I used a pink fabric for the appliquéd heart, but then I also used pink thread to stitch out the birds, and the two colours were too much alike. So when you stitch it, be sure to use nicely contrasting colours for the heart and the birds. Here it is, in .pes v.6

Now, I won’t be able to post for several weeks, because we’re off on a long tour around southwestern England – mostly to Devon and Cornwall. We used to spend a lot of our time in that part of the world, but haven’t been there for a long time, so it will be interesting to see how it’s changed. I’ll post again when we get back

So – important! If you’re one of the readers who can’t download designs directly from the blog and need to have me send you the design as an e-mail attachment, bear in mind that I won’t be around to do it for a couple of weeks. Just write to me as you usually do and I’ll send the file when I get back