Machine Embroidery Cross Stitch – Emma

I’ve stopped working on the Snail’s Trail quilt to make a friend of mine a baby present. I decided to embellish a body suit with a cross stitch (machine embroidered of course).

From this …

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 To this …

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 As you can see, I should have stabilised more. I’m still on the look out for a good cheap stabiliser. For this piece I used two layers of a medium weight interfacing rather than a proper embroidery stabiliser.

I apologise for the wonky picture!

 I decided to use this one in the end (even though it is far from perfect) because I simply don’t have the time to make another.

Here is an image of the final product …

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Snail’s Trail

I’ve been working on foundation piece quilting. I’m trying to make a Snail’s Trail quilt for my daughter’s bed.

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This was my first attempt, but it required sewing in two halves and then joining together. I decided I needed an easier version. I decided to start with a centre square (rather than the four small sqaures).

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I’m much  happier with this second  version and given  that  I have  to  make  120  of them  this is probably good. Now if I can only manage to cut the pieces the right size everytime, there might be a slim chance that this quilt gets finished.

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