I finally finished sewing up the embroideries I made for Halloween decorations for me and DD. It was fun, a process but a fun process. When I made the pillows for DD I did each pillow individually and it took me about 5 hours. When I made my pillows I did it assembly line style and it took about the same amount of time. Here is a picture of the little pillows I made for DD.
These are like the ones I made last year. I found a few more quotes and sayings that I wanted to memorialize, so I pulled out the embroidery machine and bought a yard of orange fabric and a yard of purple fabric. I made two of each embroidery except for the first one. I wanted a set for me.
You can't scare me, I'm a nurse. This one goes to DD.
Let's fly witches.
Ding dong the witch is dead.
Fly my pretties
Head witch in charge
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh, how I loathe them. (Edgar Allan Poe)
I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Allan Poe)
hocus pocus time witches
So I'll be adding 1 inch borders to each of these and then putting envelope backs on each. The pillow inserts are being made for each pillow with my fiberfill and white muslin. So easy to make and lots of fun.
I recently purchased a light board from Amazon and I thought I would do a quick review of it. Here is a link to the one I purchased from Amazon. I paid $39.99 for it because it was a little bigger than the $18.99 light board from the same company. It's described as coming with a magnetic clip which is the black clip on the top.
Two things I didn't like about the light board are: (1) the magnetic clip that is described is not very strong and does not hold anything in place. I ended up using painter's tape to keep my pattern and fabric in place while I was tracing my embroidery pattern, and (2) the power cord is not very long and this board has to be plugged in while in use. I ended up using it in the kitchen on the counter so I could have it plugged in and flat on the counter to get my projects traced.
On the positive side, the light on the board is great. There are 6 levels of brightness and I enjoyed using the different levels.
It's a good tracing tool and I will keep it. I don't know if there is a better light board out there. I would love a light board with more clips and stronger clips and a longer cord or a rechargeable light board would be wonderful so I wouldn't have to have it plugged in while I use it.
So I mentioned that I did some tracing. I started the Kathy Schmitz (she has tons of embroidery patterns and they are all beautiful) Liberty Sampler embroidery project. I want to make two of these. One for me and one for dear daughter. I did my tracing with a Pigma pen. I bought a set of these a few years ago and I used the light brown. I even got started with the embroidery with the top border.
