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Sparrows and hellebores

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If you downloaded the free designs I posted in November, you might be interested in the idea of blog reader Mirjam, who suggested that they might be made into coasters. As it happens, someone did exactly this some time ago – you can see the results here.

Coasters from the designs

I’m not much of a seamstress, so I’m not sure I could do this myself, but at least I know it can be done!

Now – most of my time recently has been spent in preparing for, and going to, local art and craft fairs. I get a lot of requests and commissions from these, and one recent request was for a large embroidery intended as a gift for a woman who liked hellebore flowers and sparrows. So – how to combine these two subjects in one piece? To be honest I would never have thought of using either of them in an embroidery! Sparrows aren’t exactly eye-catching birds, and although hellebores have lovely flowers, the plants themselves are often clumsy and difficult to draw

But after a lot of cogitation and trials and errors, I came up with this. I just hope it will gain the approval of the recipient!

An unusual present!

Now, with the festive season approaching rapidly, I will take a brief break from blogging, but will be back in the New Year with lots of freebies, and I hope that you will re-join me then

Have a happy holiday!

Three Christmas freebies

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Three Christmas freebies (I hope…)

Well, I’d be lying if I were to say that this blog is as easy to do as the last one – it’s a MAJOR headache. But let’s give it another try

I’m probably asking for trouble here because I’m going to try to post three freebies, which involves trying to post three images and three .pes files. But nothing ventured, nothing gained…

Here are three Christmas decorations – they’re very old and I think I posted them as freebies something like 12 years ago. But I don’t suppose I have many readers left from those years, so let’s give it a try. They have an appliqueed background with decorative motifs on top – you should be able to see how they’re meant to look

They’re for the 4×4 inch (100 x 100 mm) hoop, and as usual they’re in .pes v.6

Christmasfree1v6Download
Christmasfree2v6Download
Christmasfree3v6Download

Good luck! Buy the way, if you’ve sent a comment in to the last posting I won’t have answered it because that’s a complicated business now. But I did read them, and I really appreciate it. And who knows – I might get used to this new system in time!

Another Art Nouveau freebie

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I’m still getting used to this new blog format, but with luck I should be able to post again with no problems (wish me luck!)

So – here’s a new freebie, as I promised. Many years ago I was fascinated by many of the older “schools” of design, such as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, and did a great many designs based on their principles. And here is something from my old Art Nouveau collection.

It’s a very simple little floral design which could be used in many different ways, and is perhaps most obvious as a quilt square. The green frame is quite optional- it stitches out last so can easily be left out if you prefer

It’s for the 4×4 inch (100 x 100 mm) hoop. Here it is in .pes v.6

Art Nouveau freev6Download

Back again – I hope!

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Well, here I am again! It’s been a long struggle to shake off the old Typepad system, but thanks to some capable friends, I hope things are now more or less back to normal. Some of the very old posts still need to be reinstated, but for the present everything is pretty much OK

So, I’m trying out my new system with a Christmas-themed freebie, one of the designs I made to use as a Christmas card. It’s for the 4×4 inch (100 x 100 mm) hoop, and if you wanted to make it into a card, it fits nicely into a tri-fold aperture card with an opening of the same size. As usual, it’s in .pes v.6

star tree v6


Good luck with it! I just hope it will download well for you
And may I ask a favour? If you know of any other machine embroiderers who may perhaps have read the blog in the past, could you perhaps tell them that I’m back? The new address is

http://www.theaccidentalembroiderer.com

Thanks!

A new blog coming up!

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Well, things are starting to get better. A couple of very talented local people have been helping me with the problem of transferring this blog to a new address, and although the new blog isn’t entirely finished, I hope it won’t be long before it is

Typepad – and this old blog – will close down on the 30th of September, so after that date I will be at this address

http://www.theaccidentalembroiderer.com/

As I said, the blog isn’t ready yet, but if you check back in a couple of weeks I hope that things will be back to normal. And I will celebrate being back with a lot of freebies, so don’t forget!