Everyone LOVES embroidery! Maybe not everyone, but you’d think so by the results of last week’s Embroidery survey where over 2000 of you shared your thoughts and experiences. See how things stacked up and check out your list of unusual embroidery projects!
Let’s take a look at the results:
Who embroiders?
Over 88% of you do!
What do you do? You listed a few…
- Counted cross stitch
- Chicken Scratch
- Smocking
- heirloom sewing
- Hardanger
- Brazilian embroidery
- embroidery applique
- needlepoint
- Brazilian
- silk ribbon embroidery
- freehand on machine
- Original samplers
- crewel embroidery
- Bead Embroidery
- Rework
- Huck
- brodery purse
- plastic canvas
- Swedish Embroidery
- crazy quilt
- Embroidery machine
- goldwork
How often?
1/3 of you embroider weekly!
When asked if you mix your embroidery with your quilting 8 out of 10 responded – YES! You betcha!
What are the strange, different, and crazy things you’ve embroidered?
We enjoyed the responses so much, we just thought we’d share 1400 or so of our favorites…
- Crewel embroidery pillow. A very detailed flower pattern done with yarn.
- ribbon embroidery pillow
- Nothing unusual….I dabble with wool applique which is often embellished with hand embroidery….I’m pretty good at French knots!
- Flower Show–felted wool appliqué plus embroidery on a fairly large quilt.
- I don’t consider any of my projects unusual
- Large cross-stitch picture including petit-point butterflies and bees. But have also machine embroidered a few jackets with success.
- As a fiber artist, I have incorporated embroidery techniques into many of my pieces, including handmade ceramic tile vessels and paper cards.
- Child’s toy
- crazypatch vest in special ocassion fabrics cream and white with some beeding
- I took a drawing or a dragon and embroidered it in redwork to make a pillow. I’ve also done several needlepoint pillows, pictures and three cross stitch pieces that are framed.
- Crabapple hill retreat , patterns with crayon highlighting
- I do mainly free-standing lace.
- I purchased a butterfly stamped quilt kit. I wanted to do a queen size quilt. I did it by hand. Took me forever. I do not think I will purchase another stamped quilt kit.
- I am just a plain Jane
- One I created from a picture in a book for a friend to incorporate into a “farewell ” quilt!
- Characters (elves, reindeer, dolls, soldiers, toys, animals) spelling out merry Christmas.
- heavy embroidery on a denim jacket in the 70’s, won a blue ribbon in a county fair.
- the stitches on a crazy quilt
- Monet’s The River
- handbags and jewelry
- zodiac shirts for husband and brothers
- A hat for a medieval faire costume
- “Tummy Time” mat for grandson
- Crazy quilting mixed with applique.
- Redwork in a quilt
- Can not remember it has been so long
- A 20 block embroidered quilt
- Free motion embroidery on a quilt.
- I embroider on clothing.
- embroidered face on silk print of a tree that became a 3D sculpture.
- A pair of jeans with free form designs.
- Quilt
- A crazy quilted wall banner.
- Embroidery stitches on an antique lampshade.
- White on white crazy quilt
- Embroidering a baseball over a hole in my husband’s shirt
- Wall hanging using wool and cotton appliqué with some William Morris designs, then embellished with embroidery
- currently making a king sized bed quilt with 6×10 units of embroidered flowers and multiple borders. It’s the largest amount of machine embroidery I have ever done
- Red work sun bonnet sue squares for quilt
- candle wicking with quilting
- Anita Goodesign Nativity Barn
- Crazy quilting
- embroidered quilt squares on a queen size quilt
- stitching on a tramping pack
- Jacobean embroidery, crewel embroidery for jacket patches.
- I am more traditional. Dishtowels, blocks for quilt.
- None have been what I would consider unusual.
- I’ve embroidered on Christmas ornaments and also on a few scrapbook pages.
- Not unusual but intense: cowboy hat, horse shoe and cowboy boot.
- Tissue box covers
- Machine and hand embroidery quilt
- Sashiko
- Table cloth, with 12 napkins.
- Pillowcase doll
- A quilt that has five appliqued cottages embelished with Sulky 12 wt embroidery cotton and silk ribbon embroidery.
- Liturgical for church
- I made an embroidered, cloth folder for my boyfriend’s sheet music.
- Jacobean design with crewel work.
- Creating a Park Ranger patch for a Halloween costume.
- I have embroireried items i did as a teenager in the late 50s. My favorite is pillow cases with a topiary of roses each less then 1/2 in diameter. It took me several years to complete.
- A block by block tapestry design by Anita Goode done on silk.
- Crazy quilt turkey
- Wall hanging…. use beading to enhance
- Putting some collegiate type logos on several blocks as a graduation quilt. I’m also a commercial embroiderer so it’s easy.
- blue jeans purse with both hand and machine embroidery.
- I did a modified crazy quilted journal cover for my son that was covered in hand embroidery and beading!
- I’ve embroidered clothing, purses, belts, samplers, and a ring bearer’s pillow for a wedding but my favorite embroidered object is a biscornu!
- Embroidered sweatshirt.
- Crazy Quilted Fan Ornaments
- A dog on an apron!
- I do a lot of redwork, especially patterns that involve Sunbonnet Sue. I turn the embroidery into a quilt after stitching the blocks.
- Brazilian Embroidery is a real challenge. Just beginning to learn about it and enjoying it. It’s amazing what can be done with this form of embroidery.
- Currently I am completing a red work illustrated alphabet quilt which I have changed to intensive quilting for each symbol, apple, eggs, mountain, etc. work production time is inconsistent but mostly in a 2 hour period at our Senior Center.The project was started in late 2013 or early 2014 as part of my cancer recovery process. I am finished with “M” so there is hope the project will actually be finished! All in good time.
- Sheer on sheer pieces in shades of red with machine embroidery.
- Machine embroidery on toilet paper.
- I am now doing 2 crazy quilts as gifts. They measure 54×54 and have bead embellishments and buttons as well as the embroidery.
- A quilt top describing an individual’s experiences with mental illness.
- Hand Embroidered entire jacket.
- Embellishing quilt blocks
- A wallhanging of Kachinas on suede cloth–turned out great!
- I’ve hand embroidered the underslip for my sisters wedding gown. She wanted a “special” design on it and the seamstress wouldn’t do it for her, so I did. LOL
- I embroidered on a hat for a retirement gift.
- I just finished a crazy quilt embroidery around a picture of my grandmother. It was for a class taught by Brian Haggard a few years ago.
- There is none I would have described as “unusual”
- Jenny Haskins quilts
- Individual Poinsettias around the neckline of a dress
- All new stitches in wild colors on the front of a jacket, loved it.
- a quilt with embroidered blocks and border
- Needle cas kits
- Crazy quilt
- Haven’t done anything unusual
- crazy patchwork bag with embroidery
- I have only done a monkey so!
- I created a big heart for my mother and inside the heart I embroidered the flower associated with the month of each of her five children’s birth. When my mother passed away I gave the heart to my sister.
- I used to embroider clothing in college
- Nothing use others ideas.
- In a quilted wallhanging
- Working on 6.5″ blocks from an online quilt along. It is a mixed techniques, so not all blocks embroidery.
- Embellishment for husband’s patched Levi knees (geckos).
- wall quilt with inspirational phrases
- I just do pillows and wall pictures.
- sunflower garden wallhanging with hand applique, mix of cotton and wool, embellishments, beadwork, and a variety of embroidery stitches.
- Silk ribbon embroidered and strip pieced stuffed bunny
- A large crewel embroidery kit with wildlife on it.
- Decorated a denim shirt
- Large quilt with embroidered blocks and border
- three quilts
- Tee shirts for elementary school performance.
- Bedspread
- Antique cross stich designs, crewel enbroidery
- Sorry, I never finished a crazy stitch block. Had to put it a side and never went back to it.
- I designed a quilt that was representative of a gateway arch that once stood in front of my great grandfather’s home. I made portions of it with fabric and then sent photos to have those digitized. Then I machine embroidered them on the quilt. The quilt includes elements such as the Virgin of the Guadalupe and many peacocks. I am a fairly new quilter, so I lacked the skills to create it according to quilting standards. It is very flawed.The arch was designed by an artist in Mexico who used Mexican tiles. It now stands in the San Antonio Museum of Art.
- Free stitching on wool.
- Holly Hobby wall pictures
- Nude self portrait.
- crazy quilt
- None unusual but a mix in collage works
- Large peacock
- In our large extended family, we made a quilt for my father’s 80th birthday. We embroidered names for upward of seventy family members, in cursive.
- creating the pattern for and embroidering a poem my husband wrote for me.
- I made monogrammed pillow cases for Glen Campbell when I was a child.
- Crazy patch blocks
- My son created design with our embroidery program and I stitched the split design onto fabric and used heat and bond ultra to attach to tote bag.”
- Machine embroidery on a tote bag for a student at a local community college, it was part of a class project.
- a unicorn; following the lines and color chart
- queen sized crazy quilt with single thread stitches on every seam is the most dense and creative project
- Stitched a heart onto the tummies of all my teddy bears when I was a little girl. Was my Grandma’s idea LOL.
- Crazy quilt block
- Jeans patches back in the 60’s
- Gift for parent’s 70th wedding anniversary- embroidered and quilted wall hanging
- I don’t really have an unusual embroidery project. I was a cross stitcher for years, then a quilter, and now I love mixing quilting and embroidery. Currently working on an Easter embroidery that I’ll make into a wall hanging. I just watched some of your tutorials, love the twisted chain stitch, going to put some of that in my current work. Thank you for the new techniques
- lace jewelry
- Silk Ribbon Flowers and plants.
- Have never done unusual embroidery. Love most kinds of embroidery, especially the Swedish huck weaving.
- designed a landscape and transferred to fabric and then used as many stitches as would give texture to the design. took months of working on it a bit at a time
- Layering recycled plastic mailer and open-work bag on linen.
- crazy quilt
- Applique with embroidery embellishment
- crazy quilt
- Child’s traced hands
- Stamped linen tablecloth that no one would use, ironing it was horrible!
- A spider web on my blue jeans in 1975!
- Gold lame geckos with beading and embroidery appliqued to batik background.
- A Santa Clause with all French knots.
- Used Christmas tree tinsel on a wallhanging
- Am adding hand embroidery to a hand applique of my dog to add the minute fuzziness of fur and color depth.
- Designed a pheasant from line drawing and embroidered it totally on a quilt
- All mine are normal store age bags tshirt baby things hats
- King-sized quilt
- Doll faces
- My daughter’s “cat” quilt featuring her cats each month of the year.
- embroidered appliqued flowers for a dog coat
- Sweethearts embroidery quilt for my granddaughter.
- I embroider some buttons for a wedding dress.
- An embroidery over a crazy quilt block with Brian Hubbard.
- Christmas stocking
- Quilt for a Fireman.
- An art quilt
- Embellished a pieced quilt
- A design that had lots of words in a garden setting. It was quite large and took me a long time and learned new stitches. But
- Don’t think any of my embroidery could be classed as unusual
- But applique stitched onto tha background with either with hand OR machine embroidery is NICE.”
- “A custom job of embroidery applique—of which I did NOT take a photo. Now, how DUMB was that?
- Embroidered with beads on a purse made from Deer hide.
- a Tardis for my daughter
- I have done counted cross stitch, crewel, and “regular embroidery”. I’m not sure any of the many pieces I’ve done were unusual, but I frequently combine quilting and embroidery for yearly Christmas ornaments for my 8 grandchildren.
- Handbags
- Nothing unusual. I do lots of pillowcases and have embroidered squares for quilts.
- Sue Spargo’s BOM. They are amazing. Have transferred many of her techniques to quilting projects.
- a jacket
- Enhanced a painting with embroidery & beading
- My Levi jacket. Still a work in progress.
- cutwork
- I don’t have anything unusual as a project. I like to try something new occasionally. My latest embroideries have been done with wool.
- I have embroidered on toilet paper as Christmas gifts.
- Christmas dove
- A quilt made up of embroidered blocks all done in the same color.
- Working on a Christmas Quilt with nine red work blocks to do.
- Christmas tree skirt of felt with embroidery and sequins.
- demin jacket
- Using stencils as patterns on a couple of quilt projects.
- My Granddaughter’s Levi jackets.
- Embroidery and cut work on leather.
- Embroidered sides of jeans
- digitizing and embroidering logos for gamers
- Applique
- My dogs photos.
- LOL – I call it my Quarter Century Quilt. One of those pre-printed embroidered king-size quilt. I started embroidering it in 1973 & finished quilting & binding it in 1999!
- a 12 square fall portrait
- I embroidered a shirt, a cape and a picture.
- Jacket
- postcards
- Crabapple Hill Snow Cabins
- Large red poppies on wool with wool floss.
- I dunno!!
- not necessarily unusual, but samplers based on stitch families,i.e, running, knots (french, etc…) from an old Readers’ Digest book (I think) with pearl cotton (3 and 5); very pretty
- Military tanks and planes for WW II history project
- They’ve been pretty predictable.
- I figured out how to do my Birthday Month Flower – Sweet Pea. A wonderful scrolling vine with blooms.
- Art quilt with beads galore!
- Embroidery on toilet paper
- None really but there’s always a first time.
- Gee I don;t remember, They are all fun, I do sometimes mix thread colors to get some color I like better than just “plain” colors.
- I embroidered a cat with “everything tastes better with cat hairs in it” on an apron for someone who dislikes cats.
- The center of a most fabulous quilt
- Wool appliqué over pieced quilt with various embroidery stitches as embellishment and design details.
- Queen size columns
- Not sure if its unusual or not. I used to parts of LP covers on the backs of shirts.
- Crazy quilts for my grandchildren.
- Using Crayons, sand paper, fibers, experiment with most everything! in my embroidery.There are only 3 kinds of fabric: Stripe, pattern, solid. HA! HA! 210-922-0411
- Nothing unusual, probably most advanced is a quilt I am currently working on. Hand embroidery
- Revolutionary war flag quilt. Mixed applique and embroidery. Embroidered national anthem (last part)
- A Mothers’ Union Banner for Cartmel Priory which was a scene from Lake Windermere with 8 embroidered saints shields below representing the 8 churches in the Windermere Deanery.
- Probably a Jean jacket. I drew motifs with chalk, then embroidered them, no pattern or hoop. It was fun!
- encrusted embroidery
- Retirement Rag Quilt made from my husbands blue denim work jeans (with grease spots). I machine embroidered things that he used or worked on as a crane operator. Ray Ban sunglasses, thermos bottle, cruse ship, flamingo (he worked in Miami) and other things.
- Skating dress
- using needlepoint stitches
- Salem Witches with crayon coloring.
- That is hard to say. I love embroidery and have done so many pieces. Have framed and made pillows plus made quilts out of my embroidery
- Calendra Patterdrip’s Cottage
- Dresden sampler on linen. I started and didn’t know where I was going. I just let it happen.
- Nothing out of the usual.
- Jacket Embellishment
- A crazy quilt
- Baby Tag blanket
- childrens clothing
- Christmas Tree Skirt
- Baby onesie. The embroidery was a monkey under a palm tree playing baseball with coconuts. After completing and get it packed up to send I found a small hole in the crouch area. I quickly readied the machine and rehooped the onesie. I embroidered several small piles of coconuts to cover the hole and hopefully not to ??noticable!! They loved the gift and laughed at the coconut positions.
- Embroidering faces on dolls.
- Heart shaped satin pillow with lots of fancy embroidery on it. Made it when I was a teenager.
- Wall hanging and table runners
- Embroidery tile scenes from Anita Goodesign.
- 2 haunted houses (free standing lace) by OESD.
- took a pillow apart, quilted it with embroidery and put it back together.
- Designed a Rooster to embroidery
- Stumpwork
- A sashiko sampler
- Twin bedspreads
- Twilled blocks quilt.
- I mix embroidery and beads and ribbons with traditional quilting as well as applique, wool applique, and mixed media (ie. wool, silk, velvet, linen, etc.) Each piece is different.
- Embroidered a religious garment for a friend.
- Stumpwork – 3 dimensional work where components of a picture are done separately, then the picture is assembled
- sugar skulls
- Abstract embroidery on hand painted silk
- A tea cup quilt
- Crazy quilting a vest. I have entered it in the Wisconsin state fair and won 3rd in a field of 18.
- A patchwork crazy quilt bear and various garments with free form emboridery.
- Made a quilt for my son out of our old blue jeans and hand embroidered the squares. 40 years ago!.
- I made an applique and machine thread-painted old truck covered in a foot of moss hidden into the trees. It’s about 36 inches square. It hung in our local Professional Center for a few months. It’s my favorite project so far and want to do more like it.
- Sharon Schamber where we use the outline stitch to outline and applique at the same time.
- Nothing unusual – weird question!
- Wildlife projects
- Sue Spargo’s “Cuppa” BOM
- Hand embroidered Easter eggs
- Kid size chef apron for grand kids.
- On a Little Brown Bird quilt that took me 6 years to complete
- An Afghan blanket
- Santa treat baskets
- Crayon quilt with embroidery outline
- Trying learn Brazilian Embroidery
- Aprons for Christmas
- Crabapple Hill Studio Gingerbread Houses quilt
- Crazy quilt
- Custom design on a dance studio shoe bag.
- Smocked dresses with embroidered collars; silhouttes of my grandbabies hands appliqued and embroidered; silk ribbon monograms; felt fairies and their clothes
- Reconstruct antique needle lace repair and added bead flower embellishments
- Cross stitched on a woven welcome mat
- Embellishments to cover quilt mistakes, lol
- Anything Crabapple Hill
- Cross stitching and free stitching
- Sampler of stitches, freeform, I love to try new techniques
- Crazy quilt
- Sue Spargo wool
- Pretty typical embroidery projects. Working on an old 1970s “Sundance” crewel embroidery project.
- Ribbon and beads on a Christmas stocking
- A lap quilt for a sister-in-law
- For me, it was a goldwork embroidery class. It was unusual because I was not familiar with the materials, tools and techniques used in goldwork. I would like to do more of it. I can definitely see using goldwork to embellish a handsewn bag, jacket or scarf.
- Mostly I do dish towels for gifts.
- U.S. Army Emblem
- Free form blue snowflakes on a white fleece hat
- I want to experiment with a variety of new and old stitches.
- When I was in high school I embroidered playing cards onto my jeans.
- Crazy patchwork vests.
- Embroidered dishtowels when a child; also embroidered a quilt block.
- Challenge for fair competition.
- Silk.
- In the hoop quilt
- Denim shirts in the ’70s
- 15 sided biscornu
- Squared up and boarded 20 of my grandmothers embroidery squares. I then had one of them framed for my self and shared the others with cousins. They are 100 years old.
- Embroidered quilt squares on crown of thorns Mini quilt
- quilt and embroidery combine
- Wendy Williams o Christmas tree — I had never done wool appliqué mixed with embroidery and beadwork
- embroidered trim on a few sweatshirts to customize them
- crazy quilting
- Flower pounding wall hanging
- I frequently use Embroidery on my quilting projects and labels. Have made a number of Embroidery baby quilts. I learned to embroider as my first craft when I was 5or 6.
- VHS Player Cover (quilted).
- Wool appliqué
- 3 dimensional
- A ribbon embroidered heart shaped wreath, never finished
- A quilt that was colored first with crayons, then heat set and embroidery added .
- The best for last, what was the most unusual embroidery project you’ve ever done? One thousand, five hundred eighteen of you replied…
- No wonder embroidery is such a popular sport with quilters.
- Eight out of ten said yes! And number nine thought you asked, “Is your importer quitting?”, but once they understood the question they said yes too!
- Do you mix your embroidery with your quilting? Oh yeah, you betcha!
- When do you embroider? 1/3 of you said weekly!
- a cross-stitched Christmas card
- I painted a fairly large piece of fabric with paintstiks and am now added lots of embroidery.
- Created a doorstopper in redwork using a pattern from Bird Brain Designs.
- Still trying to learn how to do embroidery. I need to get a project to work on. I have done cross-stitch & French knots, but that’s it.
- Table cloth
- Embroidery using computerized software
- Sue Spargo Block of the month
- Embroidered flower
- A table runner with Claudia Dinnell
- Trimmed a shirt
- Copy of an antique piece
- crazy quilts, quilted Christmas stockings, felted wool projects, embellished African quilt, and couching along seams on many quilts
- A vest for the change of the century “2000” for a friend
- In the late 70’s, I embroidered a patch to be appliqued to a blouse.
- On quilt tote bags
- Ribbon embroidery on the bottom of a bride’s slip
- placemats from vinyl shelf lining
- I recovered a turtle shaped foot stool with crazy quilting, and did embroidery over the seams in the quilt. it turned out so cute.
- I made a quilt that was supposed to be hand embroidered but I did it all with my regular sewing machine, using some decorative stitches and some utility stitches.
- I embroidered my car’s name with a flower on the carpet dashboard cover over the glove box. It was awesome!
- 14 quilted prayer shawls with embroidery designs all over them.
- My “Dragon Quilt” I made for my daughter. It is all brocades which frayed a little (learned my lesson there) and embroidered designs appropriate to her on the back.
- Wall hanging of our marriage license
- counted cross stitch “masterpiece” projects – reproductions of masterpiece paintings
- Burt Reynolds portrait
- Christmas stockings
- Wall hanging of St. Francis of Assis
- T-shirts, table runners, x-mas stockings, ornaments, quilts customized with embroidery
- A pillow with the candlestick embroidery
- Embroidered the outline then used crayons to color in the design.
- iphone cross body bag
- 15 sided biscornu
- 16 place mats and 10′ table runner
- I stitched designs from a vintage WWII butter premium. I added my father’s and my uncles’ names and birth and death dates that served during WWII.
- Ducktape
- A landscape quilt with the floral in machine and hand embroidery.
- Sashiko on a shirt.
- Add embroidery to everything. I even embroidered little bugs on my son’s shirt tails so he’d leave them tucked in.
- Embroidery with applique. Depicting illuminated letters -which is still a work in progress.
- Zentangle type embroidery. Free-form, make it up as you stitch.
- Made custom glasses cases with lots of cute embroidery for my friends.
- Quaddy Quilt after the characters in Thornton Burgess’ children’s book Old Mother West Wind. did embroidery in center of light fabric of a double Irish Chain and it was hand quilted. Wedding gift for my son and his wife (from Massachusetts).
- Silk ribbon embroidery on a denim dress
- I included embroidery in two guild challenges and they were design elements that were added to other applique elements. Both challenging but since I am doing another, not totally intimidating.
- I just finished the 2016 Piecemakers Calendar quilt with embroidery embellishments
- Stitched pumpkin seeds to a tablerunner
- On hem of jeans
- Don’t know, most of mine is pretty standard things.
- Stamp designs of little animals and created a quilt for niece.
- Nothing “unusual”. Mostly framed pictures, pillows, towels and pillowcases.
- First time I attempted free-standing lace.
- I’m working on a crazy quilt and having fun with it. Time consuming! Each square is a new challenge!
- I made a quilt using a fabric with 3-inch circles on it. Instead of quilting it like normal, I used embroidery in each circle and between to hold the layers together. I do everything – hardanger, cut work, x-stitch.
- Can’t really think of one that I would consider unusual.
- Italian cutwork embroidery when I was in my 30s
- Hardanger
- Nothing unusual for most people, but I use my extra sew outs for other projects such as pillow tops and tote bags.
- large cat in flower garden watching the five birds in the tree….the cat and birds are all thread, the flowers are both fabric and thread about 3ft. tall /2ft. wide…
- A crazy quilt book cover
- Embroidered quilt patterns on tea towels
- Paper pieced in a wheel with embroidery on all seams
- Family did a family tree shirt for my mother years ago. Each family member made a contribution to the project in a round robin style. She loved it and wore until it was threadbare.
- Leather coasters
- Created fabric design on linen for a stuffed cat using needlepoint, satin stitch and probably over a dozen other embroidery stitches. Lots of different colors also.
- Crazy quilt with a celestial theme included a black hole and several nebula.
- Embroidery on a stuffed, smocked animal
- Seed bead embroidery in flowers.
- Baby quilt and chef’s apron
- Embellishments on clothing. Also did a framed Pheasants and wildlife piece for my Dad many years ago.
- Embroidered my grandkids names on their Christmas PJ’s but they had to find it (I hid it under a back pocket.
- Wool owls I glued to my wallpaper border in the guest bedroom.
- I have not done any unusual projects.
- I appliquéd a butterfly from vintage fabric onto anew solid fabric. Then I added a variety of free embroidery to that solid background.
- Christmas ornaments
- Snow white and the 7 dwarves
- Mixed media landscape. Stitch expressions exaggerating and building up stitches.
- Machine embroidered fans
- A sigil
- A large animal crewel work
- A fancy monogram on my daughter’s cloth headboard
- Embroidery on a burlap Christmas stocking
- Embroidered a longhorn bull head on the back of a shirt, with label “bullshirt”.
- Finished Embroidered quilt blocks (front,batting, back) and then sewing together to make quilt: love in the hoop projects.
- Voodoo veve design on a friend’s hat — always gets positive comments
- A round bag to hold my hexie flowers.
- Quilt label panels with names, then made into pin cushions for gifts.
- Crabapple Hill Pattern that had the embroidery starting around quilt blocks & flowing into the borders
- Combined embroidered squares with quilted squares
- I don’t think my embroidery is unusual. . . this seems like a strange question to me!
- Motorcycle on a kitchen dish towel
- Silk ribbon flowers on lamp shades
- I embroidered ‘kitchen towel’ on all my kitchen towels so my husband would stop taking them to the garage.
- My current one ~ quilted, stitched, painted, collaged and embroidered.
- A reversible silk quilt (34″ x 54″) with a large variety of embroidery stitches in abstract patterns. I call it “My Quilt for My Old Age” as between the texture of the silk and that of the switches, I will be able to enjoy it even if I can no longer see.
- I am currently working on a free-form piece that will probably be extended into several separate related pieces. My vision is to combine the embroidered work with machine embroidery, couching, piecing and fusing to create an art quilt. Total dimensions are undetermined. Vision may change as I progress.
- Toilet Paper embroidery for Christmas Presents!
- I’m pretty conventional, What can I say…I’ve done numerous pictures several tablecloths and a Sampler. My grandmother and Mom began teaching me when I was 5 yrs old. It brings back so many fond memories.
- Towel wraps, crafts
- While making my daughters breast cancer quilt, after finishing I went back and embroidered other cancer ‘ribbons’ on the plain back.
- I made a verse that was surrounded by the names and birth dates of all my mothers grandchildren
- I altered one of my photo’s in my computer,and printed it on bubble jet prepared fabric. I painted it with intense pencils, then thread painted over that. I did a bit of Brazilian embroidery for accent.
- My blue jeans years ago. I wish they still fit.
- Bookmark with the date my children read their first book to me on it so I didn’t forget.
- I made a “love” quilt for a friend who’s husband had died. The blocks were hearts and then I also had hand embroidered hearts blocks. In the center area of the quilt I had a block with their names embroidered with some hearts there too. She loves it! AND I made up the pattern myself!
- Lettering with applique on a quilt that I quilted with my APQS long arm quilter
- Medieval wall hanging
- Hardanger table runner
- Initials on a swimming coat
- I finished a jacket that my grandmother started
- Pillows, wall hanging and clothing probably a tag for my home sewn clothing was the most unusual.
- Hangers for my closet. They make a nice gift too.
- Working on a music quilt for granddaughter
- Reproduction designs on garments for Infant of Prague statue.
- Embroidered an abstract landscape on canvas as part of a mixed media acrylic painting.
- Embellished wool sheep for a baby room wall
- Embroidered placemats from Lunch Box Quilts.
- Large . . .red work Christmas quilt.
- A fabric pumpkin
- Patchwork on jeans pockets for my kids. Pictures words and when they reached 4th grade they asked me to please stop. They got tired of the kids laughing and teasing them.
- I did two different Peter Rabbit counted cross stitch patterns for two baby quilts.
- I designed, embroidered and framed a piece for my husband before we were married. He liked it and didn’t think it was a “weird” gift.
- Claudia Dinnell’s “Through The Woods” design.
- Harley Davidson bath towels
- I am doing one now with some blocks being totally embroidered for a quilt & can be put together with unembroidered blocks to complete the quilt.
- I did the space aliens from a game the kids play on a dark blue sweatshirt in neon colors.
- I made a landscape quilt and embroidered the trees on the hills.
- I’ve embroidered on clothing to hide rips/stains.
- Full size Alice In Wonderland themed Crazy Quilt
- Blackwork trim for a renaissance shirt.
- A candlewicking Christmas tree skirt.
- One of a kind quilted and embroidered Christmas stocking featuring a Nativity Scene. Or replica of a 17th highly technical blue and white piece floral piece.
- I have hand and machine embroidered (regular sewing machine) on paper when making hand-made birthday cards.
- Making a nativity set including all figures with embroidered robes and/or saddle blankets, faces, etc.
- An entire tablecloth, flowers and vines, 84″x120″, also the toes of my daughter’s socks so she can tell which socks are hers at camp.
- Was asked to make a quilt from a crayon drawing. I incorporated embroidery for some of the elements.
- Mixed flowers in a basket. Also so Halloween. Whichs
- When my children were small, I used to do combination applique and embroidery on dresses, rompers, etc. I had many requests to supply other people with these one-of-a-kind efforts, but my time was really limited!
- Crazy quilt class
- Work shirts, bell bottom jeans, dish towels, pillow cases, quilts …..
- Embellishment on the first Birdie wool kits.
- English crewel embroidery patterns
- Band for wedding veil with silk ribbon
- Samplers, redwork, and, as a child, table scarfs and pillowcases
- Placemats on shelf liner
- Hardly unusual but I was adding embroidery to quilt projects before I learned most people don’t.
- Stick horse head entirely embroidered!
- Redwork tea towels with lovely phrases for my mother-in-law…in case she ever finds herself at a loss for words.
- My daughter’s wedding quilt, it has 12 embroidered blocks with about 800 hours of hand stitching.
- Pumpkin patch pillow
- The most unusual project I have ever sewn was a three-story hot air balloon for my grandson to take an historic solo flight for an 8 year old child. If I could have added embroidery to it, I would have.
- Butterflies in my daughter’s wedding veil.
- A quilt block for Pat Sloan’s splendid sampler…
- A quilt consisting of 25 nine inch squares. Each one was of a different vegetable. For example, one had 25 small carrots embroidered solid. It was from a mail order from a craft magazine in the mid 70’s. I had to trace the patterns onto tracing paper then transfer them with carbon onto the fabric. Back then cd not find good 100 percent cotton. Took me 17 yrs. to finish. It was my first quilt.
- Animals on a baby quilt
- Did squares and center of mother goose and other nursery rhymes and then sashed it with fabric.
- SIGN ON A CHAIN LINK FENCE THANKING FIREFIGHTERS- cross stitch
- Cross stitch on a knit shirt
- Working on a nature picture with flowers and birds using new stitches
- A section of the Bayeau Tapestry–in crewel.
- A wool and cotton table runner
- I have hand-embroidered faces on cloth dolls.
- A tiny little hand embroidery kit (about 3″X 5″ area) with 2 long tailed birds sitting on a branch covered with red blossoms. Most of the stitches were less than 1/4 inch long. I couldn’t do it today without a magnifying glass!
- A pall for a funeral.
- Ringbearer’s pillow for son’s wedding.
- “IN THE HOOP BAGS & COVERS WITH ZIPPERS, LOVE THEM.”
- The wall quilt I spoke of earlier.
- The entire bodice and sleeves of a dress.
- Christmas Village Free Standing Lace
- Red work, names on Christmas stockings, tea towels, embellishment.
- Affairs Of the Heart queen size quilt
- Silk ribbon flowers on a poster.
- Stitching with perle cotton and DMC on a fused flannel art quilt.
- The one I’m doing currently for #1yearofstitches. One hoop. Stitch every day for a year. No planning. It’s going to be a mad dense riot of color by Dec 31st – and I’m loving it!
- The Hoop Sisters Sewn Seeds quilt
- I machine embroidered a huge quilt with all kinds of animals and symbols to represent a family. It was very heavy when finished :-}
- Bed room slippers
- Sashiko
- Yoke of a dress.
- I made a wall hanging of a coral reef with stumpwork fish, reverse smocking, and dense embroidery to compliment the batik fabrics I used. I also did some hand painting and some computer printing in the work
- Slippers for my grandpa. Lots of fish and fly hooks.
- Yoke of a child’s dress
- A quilt designed by Sarah Vedeler. It is amazing!
- Bookmark for the Bible the preacher used at my wedding. I still keep it in my Bible.
- Banners with ribbon embroidery.
- All my crazy quilting and some crazy quilts too! 🙂
- Name on a hat
- Flowers on straw hats.
- Hoop Sisters 168 blocks feathered star. Won best of show for our local guild. 2015
- Design on a chambray shirt
- Hardanger embroidery.
- A beaded pillbox hat for my Jackie O “appearance ” at a fashion show.
- Wide inset wasteland in wool crewel work…..also made the long dress. It was the 70s, but I must say it didn’t screen the 70s.
- Initials in the toes of socks. Sure made sorting laundry easier.
- created my own design of a local attraction
- Embroidered flowers and vines on the sashing of a quilt
- Depends on your definition of unusual, not to mention unusual for what decade. I just learned about thread painting, or embroidery on printed fabrics to enhance the design. And in the 1970s I embroidered original designs on denim all the time, but that wasn’t really unusual then.
- A Sue Spargo project in wool with lots of embellishments.
- Making luggage tags. It was different that what i was use to doing, which is embroidering quilt blocks to incorporate into a quilt.
- I repaired a pieced velvet quilt and repaired the embroidery around the blocks
- I made crazy quilt hexagons from cotton fabrics, used Victorian stitches on the pieces. I made purple velvet hexagons, with a center of white threads, began embroidering snowflakes from the center out. I used varying values of lavender threads (DMC pearl cotton, size 5) beginning with a pale value up to a deep purple on the final round of the snowflake. I was going to put them together into a quilt. Unfortunately, my home burned down, taking all that work with it. Sometime I shall work up that idea again. I copied some stitches my grandmother had used in her crazy quilt, also lost in the fire. I never met that grandmother because she died from the complications of measles when my father was eleven years old. She also used house paints to paint pictures of flowers, and birds on her velveteen pieces.
- Pillow case letters in different languages
- I made a quilt for my Great nephew of hand embroidery in the quilt
- Quilted jacket/shirt with embroidered butterflies.
- A pirate hat for a customer
- The one I’m working on now. Embroidering 12 – 12″ squares, commercial barn block designs on the Moda Grunge fabric, using Finca 16 thread in charcoal gray so it looks like sketches. Love how it’s coming out!
- A table cloth that took me 40 years to finish!!!!!
- Embroidered frog taxonomy on grandson’s quilt.
- I embroider the layers together instead of quilting first then embroider!!!!”
- Necklaces with silk ribbon embroidery
- Some Russian stitches that I learned as a child
- designing a table topper
- Hot glued embroidery flowers to my fingernails
- It isn’t unusual, but I traced an image on a plate that was gifted to me, and then embroidered it and gave it to the person who gifted the plate to me.
- Brazilian embroidery in a Hawaiian theme, including 3D palm trees.
- Birdie Stitches BOM quilt
- Mine are all pretty normal.
- I embroidered a mini quilt for my bathroom
- Lots of jeans, workshirts. I made a pocket watch coming out of my nephew’s jeans when he was 3. I embroider pillows that are made from work uniforms.
- To embellish a Baltimore Album style quilt
- Embroidered the front placket of a hippie sort of shirt when I was in high school in the late 70s.
- Cross stitch quilt labels
- A quilt made from counted cross stitch squares.
- Bib overalls
- Abstract art embroidery
- The face of Jesus
- A stole for my brother who is a Catholic priest.
- An honor flag staff banner for a boy scout troop.
- Sashiko flowers
- Embroider center panel with quilted border.
- I’ve done crazy quilting with embroidery and made a great evening clutch. Do pillowcases and crochet edges for gifts. Embroidered collars and on pockets for my daughters homemade dresses. Embroidered a beautiful ring bearers pillow for my sister 40 years ago. Nothing too unusual, but a variety!
- Greeting cards
- A crewel work block for a baby quilt featuring a swan swimming.
- On crazy quilt squares
- Most of my quilts!
- In the 1960’s I couched yarn ponytail ties & knitting yarn in a freeform loopy style onto a burlap bag.
- Mistrial stoles
- Embellished a small art quilt
- My LQS is doing Gossip in the Garden pattern with embroidery on solids instead of prints.
- I designed a rose bloom motif and embroidered 20 small rose bloom blocks and incorporated them into a beautiful pink and white baby quilt.
- Redwork quilt and ornaments
- I love doing applique with textured fabrics.
- Christmas tree skirt mixed with patchwork of prior projects.
- Embroidery on quilt blocks
- Made grids of holes on shoeboxes for my children to ’embroidery’ on.
- Wine bags
- Jean jacket, with other embellishments
- Beer logos on boxers
- A crazy quilt with a theme relating to gardens.
- Two bird pillows, from a kit but used some different stitches then the pattern called for.
- Design used as quilting.
- I embroider and bead applique on quilts.
- I do crazy patch embroidery. Last year I made two wall hangings, a Trump and a Clinton. Also, my Christmas stocking is a crazy patch.
- I embroidered a large fantasy tree on the back of a jacket. It is approximately 12 inches square. I will be adding some birds and flowers to it soon.
- A machine embroidered miniature quilt.
- Creating “moss” and “lichen” on a wood background with yarn and embroidery floss.
- Sewing box with pincushion, emery berry, needle holder, thread cutter, ECT.
- I don’t think of any embroidery as a unusual project. But the Route 66 pattern is taking the longest
- Brazilian embroidery
- Created an embroidery design from a wedding invitation.
- Critters crawling out of kid’s jacket pockets.
- Feels Like Spring pattern.
- Using a doubled variegated 40wt quilting thread to embroider a continuous quilting motif on a plain white 10″ square. Beautiful
- Embroidery with or a crazy quilt.
- I made an engagement quilt using Precious Moments cross stitch pieces that correlated to the couple’s( my brother and sister in law) milestones. ( My sister in law was a huge Precious Moment collector at the time). Saving the fabrics used to border each square I made a birth announcement quilt with a counted cross stitch center that recorded the birth of my niece and nephew. I loved incorporating my cross stitch skills with my sewing skills.
- Counted cross stitched state birds and incorporated them in a quilt of my design
- Denim Handbag
- An art quilt that has a handpainted , collaged design on a whole cloth back that is machine embroidered in swaths of tone on tone colour
- Wall crewel picture
- Hand embroidery on a crazy quilt using silk kimono fabrics
- Monogram a man’s suit jacket
- Crewel work lanscapes
- “Extreme” embroidery pins. Approximately 12″ totally embroidery covered characters.
- An antique prayer shawl using gold thread.
- King sized bedspread
- I embroidered the names of bride and groom on a Jewish wedding canopy.
- Fabric art with felt and embroidery, beads
- Trees for a landscape
- I did a quilted wall hanging of a cat walking on a fence in a field of grasses and wild flowers which were hand embroidered. I used a piece of black velvet from a vintage dress for the cat.
- My current project! Embroidered farm animals on blue cotton surrounding an appliqued farm scene with animals from Mckenna Ryan.
- Everyone in the family drew a picture, which I embroidered, then attached to quilt tops and finished the quilts. Did one for almost everyone in the family.
- Embroidered snow scenes with churn dash blocks together with a snowy center panel………still working on it.
- A 12″ x 12″ multi-media piece on sun printed fabric which I wrapped around a canvas for display. I looked at it each day, thought “what if?’ and added something. Lots of fun!
- Initials in skivvies
- On a scrapbook page for my daughter
- Tablecloth with free machine work
- My embroidery is usually on quilted items, but I have done a few household items like dish towels and aprons.
- A medium size wall hanging…all red work ..
- Raven heads that turned into waves as part of the background for an appliqued killer whale (Athabascan style) for a round quilt wall hanging. There was no pattern for any of it, I used a note card as a starting guide.
- Earrings
- A large crewel embroidered picture as a wedding present
- A ribbon embroidery Christmas stocking.
- I am still working on it. It is the Quilters Garden. It is hand embroidery. I have been having trouble with my hands so I don’t work on it as much as I would like to.
- Hiding stubborn blood stains on jeans with satin stitched flowers and ladybugs, and hiding a HUGE ink stain on a blouse with satin and braided chain stitching.
- Silk ribbon embroidery, love doing it!
- I did a crazy quilt incorporating photographs on silk of my grandchildren.
- Embroidera quilt…squares done on embroidery machine and then put together to make a quilted wall hanging.
- Labels for the back of my quilts
- Japanese silk on silk embroidery with couched gold thread.
- A combination of embroidery and crewel using different threads and needles on a course linen.
- A winter decorator pillow with a mix of embroidered snowflakes, knitted trees/trunks and decorative buttons.
- Embellishment of Baltimore album quilts
- Headband
- 2015 Row by Row Experience Row from Quilter’s Fancy in Ohio had a mermaid that had all kind of embroidery embellishments. Lazy daisy, spoke and wheel, chain, back stitch, and many more. I used a pirates chest design and embroidered it on with my machine. Then added tons of beads.
- Men’s tie for father’s day
- I made a quilt with two baby alligators which received a Judges Recognition ribbon at the 2016 pensacola, Florida show. The title is “”Play date in the everglades “”.
- A growth chart with Sue Spargo patterns.
- I’m a digitizer so I’ve done many embroidery/quilting projects. My Zoo quilt with a panel scene of animals, a hut and applique trees is probably the most unusual – it also has paper pieced unique squares in the quilt.
- Embroidered quilts – they draw a lot of comment but I also like to embroider on jackets.
- Sue Spargo wool applique and embroidery
- Finished a cross stich quilt top that my grandmother started in the 60’s, my mother worked on in the 70’s and I worked on and finished in late 90’s.
- I reproduced a very tiny coat of arms.
- Art Quilt with machine and hand stitches.
- Minature snowman embroidery made into a quilted wall hanging
- A seasonal sampler with many different kinds of stitches – I’d like to learn more about Brazilian embroidery stitches!
- Large quilt blocks
- Embroidered on a jeans jacket.
- Unusual would be an embroidered denim jacket with added seed beads. Biggest and most time consuming project was a hand embroidered queen size bed spread
- Bell pull and heirloom sewing
- The back of a denim jacket
- A Thanksgiving tablecloth of signatures and dates.
- A wallhanging in wool.
- Design from one of my photos.
- Quilt embellishment and a winter wall hanging.
- Have embroidered nothing out of the ordinary.
- Cross stitch kit purchased on my honeymoon and worked on during subsequent trips…finished 4+ years later!
- A denim-look hat with a floppy 4-5 inch brim. There are no stitches or knots showing on the inside, nor under the brim. Full of woodland animals, flowers, whimsey. The top is a huge sun. I made it at 16, I still have it, and surely it’s back in style. Again.
- 24 blocks of SunBonnet Sue for quilt for granddaughter. Did they over a 2 year span as we traveled.
- A handbag
- Currently doing embroidery embellishment on crazy quilt blocks for pillows. Major FUN!!!
- Prefer to embroider reproduction samplers.
- Embroidering and coloring the image first.
- Seat cushion
- Screen printed silk embroidery with peacock’s printed on it, back in the 70’s.
- Coffin Cover
- A fascinator for a friend to wear to a horse race.
- Candlewicking
- In the hoop heart box
- A cat pillow completely covered in embroidery.
- A vest covered with silk flowers embroidery.
- Brazilian with silk Ribbons on a doll.
- Journal cover
- Hand embroidery on a jean jacket
- Embroidery to embellish a hand quilted wall hanging for my home.
- I just finished a Scandinavian Christmas tree quilt with lots of wool appliqué and hand embroidery. Turned out beautifully and was lots of fun to work on.
- I hand embroidered a HUGE zodiac sign on the back of my brother’s denim jacket while he was away in the service in the 1973. I love him so, and missed him so much, the project soothed my heart.
- I don’t believe I have done anything really unusual
- Silk on leather
- Embroidery a design around a patch on a pair of jeans to disguise the tear.
- Decorating a pencil roll/case
- Cross stitch Santa and children with small beads.
- Dishtowels, blouses, placemats, etc.
- Embellishments for a hand appliqued quilt.
- Free standing lace star to top a Christmas tree in a wall quilt.
- Darin stitch on bib overalls
- Sewing French knots on an applique rose with various color threads and as many as I could fit.
- A sampler of many stitches
- Hand embroidered cartoon panels for a child’s quilt.
- embroidered a panda mama and baby for the centerpiece of a quilt. Used embroidery to make hair/fur on the pandas.
- Dragon on silk from a South African company
- 32 ct cross stitch sampler
- Hoffman Challenge sewing box.
- Cat sitting in a window with flowered drapes
- A snowman pattern I created that used couching, machine stitching and hand embroidery.
- Garter belt for a friend’s wedding
- Detailed cross stitch.
- Crazy Quilt
- A vintage baby walker.
- I mixed couching and other stitches with a needlepoint project.
- Used coloring book pages to trace designs to embroider specific characters.
- Animals for child’s quilt
- Block of the month made into a quilt
- Round Robin with other quilt guild members. I did the center embroidery piece and others did a round of a boarder.
- I was really into crazy quilting for a while. I made a small wallhanging and a pincushion in all white fabrics with white, cream and pastel embroidery.
- Using heavier thread on wildlife quilt blocks.
- A crazy quilt bedspread, love theme, featuring anniversaries and birthdays
- I embroidered the bands name on the covers I made for their amps, etc.
- Crazy quilt vest.
- An art quilt with lots of embroidery and using silk dupioni fabric.
- Labels for my quilts
- Snow Globes by Crabapple Hill Studio
- Gingerbread men and house
- Crazy quilting
- I’ve done several pieces where I did the embroidery first and then designed a quilt to highlight it.
- A mix of many different stitches and designs I drew of animals, flowers, hearts etc. just whatever popped into my mind. Which I colored with crayon and enhanced with stitches on a creamy white 16 X 16 background. I also used flannel on the back and hand stitched with tiny running stitches in rainbow variegated floss using only 1-strand of DMC floss. Iv’e completed one and almost done with another. I’ve truly enjoyed doing this in both old stitches and new ones and it was a fun learning project!
- Fixed an old red work quilt that the threads came loose and I had to recreate and match existing work
- Created framed picture of opossum playing a violin, sitting on a stool.
- Embroidered the center and then border lettering on our city’s Bicentennial Quilt
- Doll clothes
- My daughter is an artist. In her early teens (13), she drew several line drawings which I kept (40) years. I have now put the drawing son to fabric and hand embroidered them in Redwork, which I am going to frame/quilt for her birthday..
- Baby Quilt with embroidered “boys-fishing”
- Making feathers on an American Indian quilt that I designed
- I don’t believe my projects are unusual.
- Some pillows
- A stuffed lamb buddy that I embroidered dg birthdate on & made a bib for the lamb that I embroidered her name on, cause I just couldn’t seem to hoop the belly
- A quilt top that is all embroidery. It has an embroidered border and a big center motif of roses. I’ve been working on it since August 2016. I figure it’ll take me about a year to complete as I quilt and sew also.
- Flowers
- My late husband wanted me to make us a quilt, as I was always making quilts for someone else. I made a Queen size embroidered quilt . Took quite some time to finish, I did the quilting by pin basting and done on a hoop.
- Free motion crewel embroidery with sewing machine
- Quilt top
- Putting faces and decorations on Christmas Tree hand puppets and embelishing costumes for my daughter’s dance recital
- Squares from the “five & dime” back in the 1950s which were sewn into a doll quilt for my daughter in 1970s. My grand children have just out grown dolls so I will put it away and wait for the “greats” to be born.
- GARLAND FOR A BRIDAL TREE
- Crab apple hill snow days
- Crazy quilt block
- Nothing too unusual. pincushions, pillow, wall art. Plan to do velvet crazy quilt with embroidery work,
- Summer challenge for our church sewing & quilting group. Using only 2 colors (drawn from a grab bag) + 1 neutral, I made a twin size quilt
- I don’t have an unusual project.
- A sampler
- Salem witches Halloween quilt
- I’m working on a prayer stole of a pelican that is a combination of quilting hand embroidery and trap unto.
- Made a hand embroidery from machine embroidered Christmas cards I made.
- Animals on a baby quilt
- My son’s name on the back of a jean jacket. Didn’t work. It was stolen anyway.
- Most of my embroidery is to create quilt labels. I haven’t done unusual. I’ve made a gift card holder completely within the hoop, as well as gift bags and notepad covers.
- Wall hangings, pictures, quilts
- Haven’t done it yet, but want to mix crazy quilted and embroidery with hexagons. I saw a book from an Australian quilter and it looks amazing. Also embroidery – mixing embroidery with beading.
- King-size kit
- Diaper Covers
- Large Thomas Kinkaid cross stitch where every square was crossed. Lots of flowers and ‘light’. I also did a baby quilt years ago with appliqued ducks and lots of various types of embroidery – won a blue ribbon at the state fair for that one in 1976.
- A Christmas themed hanging
- The front door of a skirt
- Gift card pockets from paper, fabric and scrap embellishments. Great fun.
- The Lords Last Supper
- I haven’t done anything really unusual. I am working on a blackwork project of Victorian ladies.
- Did Audubon Christmas Quilt on Emb. machine
- Applique quilt
- I love stitching flowers.
- Decorating a Denim Shirt was my craziest!
- Bikini
- Towels, doilies and the occasional embellishment on wool appliqué
- Made a square snowman all in the hoop except the sewing.
- Christmas quilt — not very unusual.
- Learning crewel and canvas, but I enjoy it.
- Embroidery with Sue Spargo
- Crazy quilt
- A queen size quilt, pattern “Tulip Time”, done in Lakehouse fabrics, embroidery and appliqué. It took one year to complete.
- Elvis quilt
- Many machine emb. projects, embroidered on Kraftex, on plastic screen, embroidered a denim purse.
- A study in white. Needlepoint
- Scenes of the Quapell Lakes
- Coasters for drinks – I embroidered the school mascot and teacher’s name, cut the embroidery into a circle that fit into an acrylic coaster blank. My son gave one to each of his teacher’s as part of a Christmas gift.
- Quilted a quilt in-the-hoop
- Embroidery is EXTRAORDINARY. There is no “usual” embroidery.
- Large square flower
- Designed and hand embroidered violet motif on bodice of caftan
- Doilies with embroidery machine
- Using my own designs digitized to make a memory quilt from a trip through Great Britain.
- I just do a lot of redwork, bluework, greenwork, blackwork, or what ever color I feel like working in. Currently it is purplework. I like to do embroidery on wool.
- A crewel embroidery pillow top when I was in Jr. High!
- I recently found that pillow and am thinking about using it as the center of a medallion quilt!”
- Patch for a jacket
- A clock face
- A duplicate of a GS rank pin
- 9 hand embroidered blocks and hand quilted memory throw quilt for a deceased granddaughter’s sister.
- Leather(ultra suede) jacket.wish I could still wear it!!
- Mixing hand embroidery with a hand appliqued quilt….turned out beautifully
- Needlepoint for an antique Victorian ladies chair. Worked with my father: he refinished the chair to it’s original luster, I created a striped floral pattern in needlepoint that we recreated the upholstered seat, back and arm rests for.
- Several, these are each different
- Large wool sewing portfolio
- Sashiko
- Hand stitched monogrammed linen napkins for a wedding present.
- A king size quilt
- Machine embroidered leaves for appliqué on a table runner
- Baskets of flowers
- Hand embroidering ” Ludwig Van Beethoven “
- On the back of a music major’s favorite shirt!”
- Indoor Snowball Fight kits for my grandchildren.
- A very large horse head and flowing mane
- Repairing an antique screen. The biggest challenge was finding the correct shade. I had to tea and coffee dye threads to achieve the correct color: often, many shades before I got close.
- Quilt blocks
- I am about to undertake counted cross stitch name tags for our Christmas stockings at work. I hope they will be done by Dec.
- used embroidery blocks as a whole cloth quilted wall hanging vs piecing the embroidered blocks by rows.
- My 16″ redwork pillow. Took a long time, but I did it.
- Crayon colored quilt blocks with hand embroidery
- Over the river and through the woods ” wasn’t unusual, but most time consuming.
- Not unusual but stunning results. I did 20 machine embroidery blocks of digital representations of Baltimore Quilt blocks and made a quilt with them.
- I have just embroidered pillowcases and tea towels.
- A bed sized crazy quilt with embroidered patches and seams.
- I copied a portrait of a Native American Chief out of a volume of Native American portraits. I have no design skills, but I can replicate almost anything. I do it for the pleasure of the process only and do not ever display it.
- I am a frustrated artist with no talent. But I have embroidered since I was four years old. I am now 75.”
- I made “License plates” for my mom and dad’s walkers with their names and apartment # on them. They lived in an assisted living facility in California so I designed them to look like the CA car license plates.
- Cross stitched a quilt top and am in the process of hand quilting it. It is full sized and I have been working with on and off for 35 years.
- I have done daily embroidery projects for five years and have two at a time going, resulting in 10 68″sq. finished pieces.
- A complete wall hanging; and Halloween treat bags utilizing burlap.
- Torah mantles for my synagogue
- Crewel embroidery on a pillow.
- Added a Lincoln/Obama redwork piece to an older quilt of mine. I used redwork motifs from Bonnie Browning’s “Designs On Freedom” and the free Obama motif you offered on the website.
- Face on pincushion doll.
- A Sue Spargo embellished wool bag
- Quilt blocks with cow girl things; horse, horse shoe, rope, hat and such
- Christmas stocking with ducks on it.
- Embroidery on satin (not easy)
- Machine embroidery on reproduction Lapp hat
- Machine embroidery on a memory quilt for my mother using photos from her birth to present day
- Tape measure covers
- Monogrammed pillowcases for my dad’s cousin when I was 7 years old. They’re celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary this year.
- Silk ribbon embroidered on a purse.
- Quilt made entirely in the hoop
- Assorted flowers using some stitches that are raised.
- Floss embroidery around crayon coloring then ironed.
- The bottom of socks with unique sayings for Christmas gifts.
- Brazilian Embroidery
- A memorial on the side of a cloth covered ready made hand bag.
- Free standing lace Christmas ornaments
- I embroidered a Kaffe Fassett fabric to make a whole cloth wall hanging. About 75% of the surface is embroidered.
- Counted cross stitch chickadees
- Embroidered pictures along with quilt blocks
- Peacock wall hanging.
- Crabtree Winter scene with lots of quilt blocks, it was fun
- I do a lot of Crabapple Hill Designs, basic redwork, and wool embroidery. Hand embroidery makes my projects just a bit more personal and special.
- 3d wall hanging of my embroidery tools on the table for a quilting challenge.
- Quilt blocks with a verse on each block done in embroidery
- I’ve done a family crazy quilt with pictures of four generations on it . It has 12,241 beads on it, beside a lot of stitching and embroidery on it. It took me 54 weeks of work on it, using velvets and a lot of old fabrics from dresses long ago…
- The names at the top of Christmas stockings
- I made a copy of “International Sun Bonnet Sue” and used embroidery, wild fabrics and quilting to complete the project.
- I designed & stitched a piece for a musician friend that included a vibraphone instrument & several lines of music he had composed
- In my youth, I hand embroidered jackets for two motorcycle riders. They wanted their club colors to wear while riding.
- For me a tree with a large trunk and branches also had loads of flowers.
- Table centerpieces for daughter’s wedding, which were made into a wedding quilt.
- Jeans
- Digitized a French poem that I wrote in university (with a French font) 6″ high, that ran entirely around the border of a French Provincial challenge quilt. Used my embroidery machine. A BIG JOB!! Required planning, spacing the words and extreme care in hooping.
- Feed bag for a horse
- An intricate wedding sampler that included many types of stitches in very fine detail. It also included beading and cut work.
- Sue Spargo’s African Journey BOM.
- Tea towels. I embroider on the main design or near the bottom adding buttons and /or beads.
- Funeral words
- Mine are old fashioned traditional embroidery pieces
- A picture 8×10 full of flowers and I framed it
- Shirts
- I’ve added embroidery to a purchased shirt & numerous small & large quilts, but nothing unusual.
- Ribbon embroidered jewelry bag done by machine
- Crazy quilt, Christmas stocking, crewel pillow, heirloom smocking and embroidery
- I’ve quilted a quilt with my embroidery machine. Turned out beautiful!
- Just the basic
- A small wall hanging
- I did a quilt that had 12 hand Embrodiery blocks, 16 log cabin blocks and 270 – 2 1/2″ pieces to make the rest of the quilt in groups of scrappy 9 patches. It took 3 months of deligently working on it!!
- My work is run of the mill – pictures, pillows, ornaments, scissor fobs
- French General
- Variety of multicolor baskets set in quilt blocks.
- Crazy quilts
- Small wallhangings”
- A combination of wool and regular fabric. Also did some Hawaiian embroidery.
- I have done just pretty standard embroidery.
- Stitcher’s Garden Quilt
- Jeans & matching jacket. I put a tree on the leg of the jeans and a house on the jacket.
- Crazy patch heart wall hanging 24 x 24
- Child’s animal quilt
- I did a counted cross-stitch “Last Supper” picture.
- Crazy quilt
- Cat
- Just cross stitch and embroidery with my appliques.
- Needlebook
- An art quilt with hand embroidery.
- A dragon down the leg of a pair of jeans.
- Bedspread
- Mixed embroidered squares with patchwork
- Long ago quilt top-alphabet in traditional red.
- Currently working on a very large bed quilt that is mostly embroidered.
- Quilting with captions under picture quilt.
- Several years ago I did some embroidery on the Wizard of Oz quilt.
- I like African folklore embroidery. Don’t know how unusual it is, but it’s not commonly sold.
- When I was a child and had the mumps part of the treatment was to rest in dark room. Some how I managed to get a set of dish towels and while no one was looking I embroidered the entire set.
- We used to do cross stitch on our gathered skirts and on dresses.
- I embroidered a unicorn for a friend.
- In college, Women’s Day Magazine had a craft project of birthday animals that you hand embroidered and then sewed together. Long before embroidery machines
- A prayer shawl with the first names of all of my living relatives.
- I have done tons of name tags for people and lots of labels for the back of quilts, some include little motifs in addition to lettered information.
- I personalize lots of little gift items.
- All of the above is with my embroidery machine.
- Just for fun, I have a small “busy bag” at the ready to take along with hand embroidery – so that my fingers can stay busy. I refer to that as “redeeming the time”.
- I enjoy doing these surveys. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to share ideas.
- Button covers for wine glass charms and pacifier leashes
- Embroidering torn fabric, rust stains, paper, and grass.
- I do red work mostly now. Have done all presidents. Looking for Pres. Trump next.
- Sue Spargo bloock of the month quilt. I have done 3
- Baby wash cloths
- A tag for grandsons tennis bag
- One of Crabapple’s designs using crayons also
- Halloween wreath
- Wool appliqué,quilt blocks.embroidert enhances the projects
- A cross stitch plaid ladybug, using waste canvas, stitched on the bacj of a denim shirt whil touring Scotland. Stitched in the evenings but wore the shirt during the day (with the work in progress.)
- I embroidered on deer hide while making a bag for my son’s dice (used in role playing games).
- Decorated a sweatshirt jacket with applique and embroidery.
- Made a working clock by stitching out a design, then encasing an old CD inside…it sits on my entertainment center and is still working as long as I change the batteries each year….get more comments about it….
- My granddaughters bluejeans and jacket but love my crazy quilts
- Nothing out of the ordinary. Personalized towels, zipper bags, wallets. Also pieced and embroidered quilts.
- Western shirts
- I frequently do art pieces using old quilt blocks found at quilt shows.
- Wall handing with family name then embellished with hand stitching. Also other pieces with a hand stitching “touch” if they seem appropriate. A gift my mother taught me before I learned to quilt! The two make a nice combination sometimes!
- I just finished a shell lap quilt. The top is 10 inch squares with different shells embroidered in each square. The back is shell fabric. I am giving it as a birthday gift and I am starting on a second one to give as a birthday gift. My two sister in laws and myself share a love of the beach. We live in Florida.
- Quilt mania wedding ring. Started it last year. Still slowly working on it. Love it.
- I was the recipient of 42 embroidered cat blocks from my guild which I assembled and hand quilted .It is a favorite of mine!
- I am working on an Asian crazy quilt.
- My Mother came to live with my husband and I as she became more medically needy. She fell in love with red work and even more so with blue work. As her aged increased (10 years all total) she developed dementia but had spent long hours embroidering on the blue work top of sunbonnet sue and bill..as her dementia increased her stitches (once amazingly beautiful)declined as did her color choices-almost unrecognizable at times.I found the not yet completed piece after her death and debated what to do with it. Too glorious a memory -I now continue this large blue work to make into an heirloom quilt for our children…unusual stitches and colors and all.
- I have taken a picture out of a coloring book and then transfered it to cloth to embroider. It was an old Bruins, the hockey team, coloring book.
- Crazy quilt
- Years ago I did some embroidery for myself on a number of denim shirts that I had purchased.
- None of mine are unusual. I also do hand xs and I do hand embroidery stitches but mostly buttonhole applique and simple hand embroidery stitches.
- I am currently adding hand embroidery to my modern quilts. My biggest industry complaint is the fact the the beautiful threads that are available today are way over priced.
- I like to do crewel embroidery, however, I have not been able to locate kits for crewel, most especially crewel Christmas stockings. I still have need of 2 kits for grandchildren. Most unusual embroidery would have to be a large Christmas picture of a cat sitting in a window looking out at the snow.
- Using embroidery pattern for quilting.
- Hand embroidered large emblem on the backs of men’s shirts
- I haven’t done anything unusual – just sweatshirts, quilt blocks and table runners
- Ladies of the Sea Quilt
- Neck wraps for hospice patients made by myself and the kids I teach in our summer programs at our church.
- Hardanger
- A quilt combining coloring the pattern with crayons and then embroiderying the pattern and also adding beads.
- Quilt of Valor labels
- A large silver bird on the back of a wool cape, a very long time ago!
- A Mr. And Mrs. Santa Claus kit with a huge variety of stitches.
- Once did a fanciful bird in crewel that my then 6 year old called a gurney bood (instead of goony bird). The name still stands!
- A hand embroidered original design for a crazy quilt for a guild raffle quilt
- Oriental paneled wall hanging. It was free motion machine quilted with hand embroidered butterflies, leaves and stems, embellished with beads and sequins.
- Crayon tinting and hand embroidery a quilt from Crabapple Hill
- I designed and embroidered a vase of every kind of crysthansimum that there is in a intricate vase.
- Christmas Cards, Earings,
- Working on a Crazy Quilt with all different stitches. Over casting each seam, all hand work.
- A entire quilt
- A Hoopsister quilt
- I made table decorations for my in-laws 60th anniversary party. They were a freestanding 3-D lace swan (Sue Box design) and I made at least a dozen. I had 2 embroidery machines going at the same time for days.
- Currently working on a Mother Goose quilt with hand embroidered squares and echo quilting around story characters.
- Embroidery on woven baskets
- On tuffet strips
- Embroidery stitches on abstract art quilts
- Have embroidered windscreen covers for motorcycles, embroidered covers for motorcycle seats, towels, quilts, blouses, pants, and am currently working on a vest with a sewing theme
- King sized cross stich
- Levi’s and Levi jacket for my daughter years and years ago
- Two quilts and lots of wool appliqué
- Fishing lure logos on my husband and his friends caps.
- Crazy squares on a shower curtain pattern I created.
- Van Gogh Church at Auvers
- Am in the process of doing a Halloween quilt that incorporates both.
- Embroidered Baskets
- Sandy Jenkins Nutcracker with dresses made of thousands of French knots and tiny little details, including weaving embroidery thread.
- An Irish themed row sampler with a multitude of specialty stitches as well as counted cross over 32 count Irish linen. It was a thank you gift for a friend.
- For me it was embroidering animals & bugs on 4-patches in a baby quilt.
- A lion’s head on the back of a denim jeans jacket
- Sampler from Catherine Redford’s class. This was circles mostly with different stitch styles. Everything else I’ve done has been birds, flowers, etc., in different styles of stitches.
- Have made clothes with embroidery as well as some redwork wall hangings, table runners and quilts.
- Embroidered denim shirts for all members of the family!
- Working on combining hand embroidery with turned edge machine embroidery.
- Pockets on a pair of shorts when I was 17
- Mixed media art boxes and a wool felt heart pillow
- Barrettes
- Snake
- Halloween quilt with embroidery blocks. Loved it
- Usually stick to traditional patterns and designs
- A Japanese scene in crewel done over 25 years ago, mixing all sorts of stitches
- 3 different quilts using embroidery patterns from the 1930s – Margaret Techy’s English Flower Garden
- I am working on a mixed quilt with embroidery blocks and pieced blocks and I am just getting started.
- The entire front bodice of a dress
- Unusual for me is to put it on clothing. It is usually on quilts or decorator pieces. I like to add it to applique too.
- I’m working on a crazy-quilt using blocks made out of wool. I sewed the block with my Bernina 180, then used the built in embroidery stitches to finish the piecing. Now I’m finishing each block with hand-embroidery and it’s an absolute joy! I got my inspiration from the quilt “In Praise of Wool” by Mary Chalmers. She was featured in the March 2011 issue of American Quilter magazine.
- Embroidery on paper and then framed them
- Crazy quilt pillow
- A very exceptional anniversary quilt label with lots of embroidery design.
- A bag
- I did an embroidery pattern on the hem of a homemade skirt when I was 12.
- Sashiko denim rag quit
- I combine applique and embroidery a lot. Sometimes wool applique. Sometimes I use beads and sequins as well. One of my favorites is a Sunbonnet Sue quilt with the arms, hands and bouquet all embroidered. I also do Brazilian embroidery. Embroidered accents on applique set the whole design off as long as it is not overdone.
- Blue jean jacket.
- Crewel embroidered picture from a kit.
- A crazy quilt with sea creatures.
- King size quilt all hand work
- Own design, freeform quilt with freeform hand embroidery, button and beadwork.
- Probably the Quiltmania, Colmar quilt.
- Fabric to upholstery a chair
- I’m just learning to do in the hoop embroidery.
- embroidered and appliqued quilt
- Christmas Tree Skirt
- Crabapple Hill Witches Panels
- I like to do portraits.
- crazy quilt
- Fabric owls
- A quilt that was 50 percent embroidery and 50 per energy different quilt design blocks, then hand quilted. It took me four years and it is beautiful.
- christening gown
- I usually work the printed fabric panels, with a layer of batting & backing added to give a quilted look. I embroider not only on the printed “stitching” lines, but all over the piece to add lots of detail & texture. I also do some hoop embroidery, but less frequently. I am not usually one to go in for “trendy”, but I do have a few of the cute-sey style of owls to work for my granddaughters.
- I create prize ribbons for our annual quilt show.
- Gingerbread village for Christmas
- Embroidery and beading on a doll I made for a challenge.
- Hoop sisters embroidery quilts
- In the hoop items
- Four large framed redwork Christmas pictures hanging on my dining room wall year-round
- By hand long ago I did a whole prehistoric scene. Volcano’s, lava, rocks, plants, the whole thing. It turned out great.
- Mine are not unusual but I love to do sock monkeys on cloth diapers for burp cloths and give them as baby gifts
- Initials on socks
- Pillowcases
- I acquired a work done by a family member that was the letter D embroidered on a pillow case for my great aunt when she came into the Davis family. Her great grandchild was named Davis. I appliqued the work onto a wall hanging and hand embroidered the”avis” to match the D. I felt the spirit of the original creator with me as I worked on the wall hanging, smiling.
- Unusual for me was my first quilt in which half the blocks were hand embroidered.
- I have incorporated embroidery with my wool applique
- I modified a quilted wall hanging that used plain embroidery to also use Brazilian and Ribbon stitches and techniques.
- Pillows, and pictures. Machine embroidery, I love to do free standing lace.
- Towels for a raffle at a pig rescue
- Embroidered sashings on a pieced quilt; the most difficult part was transferring the embroidery lines onto 1″ sashing pieces while trying to avoid the seam allowances on the back!
- Trim for a dress
- Spider web on leather for local saddle shop who was making custom saddle
- Made a garden piece with multiple kinds of flowers, leaves, etc. It was a kit. Then I do counted cross stitch more frequently and am doing a log cabin scene right now.
- Large family record
- Baltimore Album Quilt
- Machine embroidered on my purses.
- Machine embroidery on toilet paper
- A Year long Sampler Quilt, for my/our first granddaughter, (with coloring book pages and a little designing myself).
- Hussif my design
- Silk crazy quilt
- My projects are not very unusual!
- Quilt with embroidered Santa Clauses, collected embroidery patterns and when completed, designed my own quilt around them. Very simple design.
- A hardanger piece when I belonged to
- Embroider’s guild many yrs ago.
- Crabapple Hill quilt pattern. Walking in a Winter Wonderland.
- Newer to doing this 1 year. Mostly names on quilts, coats, shirts etc..
- Mixing floss, perle cotton and silk ribbon. Pattern is “Isabella”.
- Souvenir pocket on a bag
- Baltimore Album quilt
- I finished squares my grandmother (1896-1977) began long ago and made them into a small quilt.
- Crewel style tooth fairy pillow
- Counted cross stitch
- Sampler
- I used embroidery to cover a stain on the leg on one of my favorite pairs of jeans
- Embroidering chairs on appliquéd chairs in quilt black count.
- Love working on wool.
- Discharged art quilt
- Trying to finish a crazy quilt begun by my mother. She began a twin size quilt for my daughter but failed to finish it before dying. My daughter would like it to be queen size as she is now an adult with a much larger bid.
- doll pictures for my niece
- sugar skulls
- Love doing redwork on white and white work on red blocks and making a quilt. Won best of show at our county fair.
- A BBQ apron my grandson designed as a gift for hid dad and the BBQ tool holder I designed to go with it.
- A large quilt that combined redwork snowmen and quilt blocks
- Willie Nillies
- Tablecloth for my VERY large table
- Knitting needle case for my Mother-in-Law
- Pictures pillow cases and towels.
- Eyeglass case
- Embroidered feathers on a quilt
- A really fun and easy one is the hooded towels. Great kids gift
- Not unusual, but I hand embroidered crewel work on jeans for my friends back in the late 60’s. I remember how tough it was pulling the yarn through denim!
- 12 quilt squares with animals or fish with different guns and rods bordering the square.
- Covering a brick with embroidered fabric as a door stop
- Embellishment on wool appliqué on a pieced cotton quilt
- Original landscape quilt
- A retreat with Tonye Belinda Phillips and Sue Spargo at Camp Sherman, Oregon. We were encouraged to design and stitch our own project with cotton and wool. It was the most educational and fun retreat I’ve been on. All of my embroidery journey has been built on that experience. Great teachers!
- Repaired a ripped pair of jeans by embroidering over the tear
- Designed and made family tree quilts for my kids.
- A trapunto wall hanging with beading, quilting and metal work.
- Machine embroidered a canvas tote bag for my vintage Featherweight machine
- Embroidered squares in log cabin quilt
- 2 quilts: 1 quilt state birds, flowers and names; 1 quilt state flowers. Both are king size.
- Doing dimensional stitches for a project.
- iPad cover, Christmas ornaments, mug rugs, flag with the pledge of allegiance embroidered on it
- Made a mesh screen dish cover with embroidery on it. Want to try balsa wood!
- Crewel embroidery for daughter, Christmas stocking.
- I made a photo memory quilt with humming bird embroidery and iris fabric for a customer. It was for a King size bed
- Embroidered a peasant blouse in a typical Ukrainian pattern.
- Ribbon embroidery on a wedding dress. I also embroidered signatures on a charity quilt.
- I did a full size Halloween quilt with blackwork embroidery panels…..turned out awesome!
- Latest is on wool
- 30 years ago I did a 16 by 20 wall hanging that’s a combination of embroidery and crewel that still hangs in my sewing room and I love just as much today as I did when I made it.
- 1997 peacemaker quilt with ribbon
- Quilt blocks. Pillow cases. Pictures crewel work ..whatever is available
- Hardanger table cover.
- Just completed a Christmas wall tapestry wall hanging
- Quilt with machine embroidery that included custom designs representing members of the family
- “Stitching” up a small incision after removing a large mole from my husband.
- Tulip Etui, each petal was design to hold stitching tools.
- Southwestern Indian maiden
- A monochromatic purple peacock embellished with beads. the background fabric was white wool.
- Crazy quilt bed runner
- Stuffed, door prop cats made using wool and embroidery.
- A crazy quilt embellishment
- I used to think embroidery on quilts was unusual. Now I don’t know a good answer because it goes everywhere
- Wool on wool cover
- Someone’s 20 year old Christmas stocking
- Crazy quilt
- A small linen house to store sewing accessories.
- Sets of snowmen (several)
- Countdown to Christmas calendar
- An eagle head on the back of a sweatshirt!
- Embellished baby photo of daughter.
- Bags for 3 day walk for Komen
- A very large crazy quilt for my guild.
- Embroidery on bandanas for a 4-H group
- I added embroidery in an undersea quilt, to enhance those small undersea creatures, as fabric would be too bulky. I also use it in Baltimore Album blocks, it’s adds delicate details.
- I have only ever embellished quilts with embroidery
- I like to embroider blocks for a quilt. Nice for memory quilts.
- Sampler quilt for my grandmother’s 80th birthday. I did a tree of life in the middle and embroidered family names on it.
- It’s not what I have done but what I’ve received as a gifts from Mayan women in Mexico. Exquisite hand embroidery where the back is almost as beautiful as the front. They do some interesting weaving work to fill large spaces.
- An Easter table top, that looked simple, decided to make 4 toppers at the same time. One of the designs was to take 6 min of machine time, but it had 7 color changes which increases the time to about 15 minutes and I had to sit at the machine and be ready to change colors as fast as possible if I was to finish that year. Each topper had 8 repeats of the same design and I was making 4 so a total of 32 designs 8 plus hours.
- A logo for my son’s national guard unit
- A quilt block representing our family. It was our children’s school project, in the 90’s. Several teachers sewed all of the family blocks together, made quilts, and donated them – I think to a nursing home.
- Picture
- Digitized a hand embroidery quilt pattern.
- I made a burlap purse with a large smiling sun embroidered on it.
- Embroidered samplers.
- Tuffets
- Wool embroidery
- Floral hand embroidery finished into lap quilt using some satin fabric with fusible on back
- I just love all embroideries.
- Put advertising on bowling shirts in the 80’s hand embroidered
- Parrot on back of kimono jacket
- Embellishment.
- Crabapple Hill’s gingerbread houses and witch panels
- A geisha and a Victorian lady. It was a lot of work and pretty complicated.
- Probably my best so far was a wallhanging where I combined various embroidered blocks in a Celtic pattern.
- A denim dress
- Brazilian Embroidery – once!
- pillow case doll
- Crazy Quilt pillow with many different stitches.
- Hand embroidered a crazy quilt made from my daughter’s childhood clothing, dance costumes, prom and bridesmaid dresses.
- Pockets on jumpsuits or logos on back of shirts
- Brazillian embroidery
- Use Sue Spargo stitches for a small wall hanging.
- I hand embroidered a vest and skirt.
- Large calla lily on 32 count over 1 thread
- Well for me was when I started adding beads to my embroidery projects. Also use embroidery on my card making projects…
- Accents on an art doll. Transforming children’s artwork into textile art.
- Sue Spargo sampler using different types of thread and beads
- Embroidered quilt blocks on barns
- Silk ribbon on the fronts of a cardigan sweater.
- Nothing unusual, clothing, quilts, school bags, tea towels, etc
- Digitizing 365 4″ blocks, making all decisions about type of stitches used, fabric used, thread choices all combined into a quilt
- Air brush background, then doing traditional straight line Maltese Cross stitch in a curvilinear style.
- An encrusted crazy quilt square using fabric from wedding gowns I made for my daughters, my mother’s wedding veil, beads, pearls, fancy threads, mini pictures of each bride and other tiny pretty things.
- I mix embroidery with hand smocking
- Adding embroidery to a small quilt for display at a local quilt show
- Purse
- Made a quilt out of my mother’s hankies and my grandmother’s hand made lace doilies from the 30s-60s for my daughter, machine + hand quilted it, and hand embroidered some of the blocks
- Twilling
- White stitches on white quilt
- Working on a large 10×10 punch needle design (but is technically embroidery?)
- Haven’t done “unusual ” but have done pictures, wall hangings, and quilts mixed with embroidery and patchwork…
- I enlarged a tattoo design to embroider.
- Not really unusual but I like to add hand embroidery to my quilts, both pieced and applique.
- I love combining Baltimore applique style with hand embroidery. “
- large wool flower applique/embroidery quilt
- Mostly do typical projects but like to mix thread types and add beads.
- An abstract bead embroidered pillow for my bead club.
- My daughter’s wedding cash bag
- Danish village with appliqué and embroidery.
- Dish towels
- Pillowcases
- A design that I created of a dragon/ rose combination that was with variegated iridescent threads that made it look different depending in the light and angle you looked at it.
- Hand wall design as a high school art project. It was a mixture of embroidery thread, yarns, beads, sequins, gold cording and other decor trims.
- A crewel embroidery picture of a pot of flowers- it took me 10 years to finish. My husband had it framed for me, it is very beautiful.
- I also embroidered 30 dragonflies on a quilt using metallic embroidery floss.
- Queen size floral applique quilt. Each square required at least 10 hoopings.
- Tuffet w/ machine embroidery and quilting.
- Self designed wall hanging.
- A BOM from the Leavenworth, WA quilt shop
- Brazilian embroidery
- A crewel basket of flowers with multiple textures.
- Quilted a patriotic quilt with fireworks embroidery
- nothing unusual. I enhance my quilts and applique and I have made embroidery blocks for quilts and had machine pieced blocks and/or borders around them.
- Halloween wall hanging
- Quilt ladies shopping bag
- Crazy quilt hussif (sewing kit , mine with zippered closure and multiple pages)
- Christmas quilt
- Names of grandchildren on fleece with scroll embellishments.
- A toilet seat cover.
- I like to embroider on wool. Am a big fan of Sue Spargo.
- A Hexie table runner with embroidery on some of the Hexies.
- Liturgical work. Also have used it embellish items for others
- I love to pick a theme, my grandson had under the sea, embroider sea creature then mix with very cute under the sea fabrics for his quilt.
- Presidents quilt
- Letters with Satin stitch.
- Crazy quilt blocks
- Canada symbols on a Canada quilt for our 150th birthday,
- Wall hanging of sewing machine.
- Machine embroidered greeting cards.
- A ribbon embroidery quilt.
- hand stitching on a postcard
- Feather stitched a crazy quilt.
- Designed and embroidered a scene from Disney’s Bambi when I was a child.
- I did a lone star quilt for my niece and in the 4 open corners I did embroidery of her name and all things Texas. Not that unusual but different for me. Back in the day all my clothes had my hand embroidery stuff on it, it was the 70’s and quite the thing.
- I do many different techniques, and so most of them are unusual
- Curtains for my kitchen.
- Baltimore Album
- Silk Dupioni Christening Quilts with Machine embroidery”
- My Hungarian pillows with Hungarian designs using silk.
- Free standing lace Dr. Who police box
- free motion embroidered face bag
- I just finished a heavily embroidered Hawaiian style quilt
- I do a wide range of embroidery and needlepoint. I have added embellishment with beading, stones and seashells.
- A dress I made for my sisters wedding. Morning glory flowers along the bottom front of the dress.
- My first quilt was a prestamped Bambi design that I made in the 70’s. I did a baby quilt with embroidered squares in the 60’s my grandmother helped me put it together and quilt it.
- I’m using all orange floss for a Halloween quilt that I’m making.
- Quilted bag that could be used for a tea cozy or for a large coffee cup. We embellished with embroidery stitches and appliqué.
- Embroidered on toilet tissue
- Made a blue jean purse out of a leg of pants..
- Wall art
- I embroidered a bee using Sandra Leichner’s pattern onto a Baltimore Album style quilt for a BAS auction.
- Making snowflakes and trees for ornaments
- Splendid Sampler
- Very large geisha scene…use it as a headboard
- The one I am working on now 🙂
- It is a pre-printed “Zenbroidery”
- Scissor holder/case
- A Sue Spargo project.
- Designed a hankie for niece’s wedding
- ITH Star Pillow about 15 inches across
- kitchen curtains
- Embroidery on dog collars
- Crazy quilt stuffed cats
- A Wendy William’s felted wool heavily embroidered quilt
- Free form embroidery on silk.
- Stitchers Garden bom through the shop where I purchased my Pfaff. It had machine embroidery, and I did some unusual embellishments.
- 1968 hand embroidered a complete pair of overalls for a boutique
- Pictures
- A clock
- I can’t say that any of my embroidery projects were unusual. I’ll have to work on that!
- Turned a photo into an embroidered picture.
- I did sheets the top across , pillow case.
- Mine are part of Baltimore album quilts
- Machine embroidery on stockings and toilet paper.
- My most recent quilt.
- doll clothes
- Wool appliqué with lots of embellishing stitches and beads.
- Memory quilt in which I digitized the centers of crazy squares
- Baltimore album with beading
- An 18″x 24″ counted cross stitch picture of a carousel horse and a Christmas tree skirt/
- Combining embroidery with old linens & buttons. It was framed in a hoop.
- Put “Sue Spargo” style of embroidery (by hand and machine) on the solid “back” of a patchwork quilt, which turned out to be the front.
- A fusible quilt picture with hand embroidery accenting the picture.
- I embroidered names on jackets for Animal Control Officers, they wear them during drug raids when animals are involved.
- Pillowcases, and quilt blocks & decorator pillow tops….
- I usually stick to the basics like red work or block of the month patterns.
- My Robotts sampler is the most unusual. It is mainly wool appliqué with silk, cotton, trims, beads and lots of Embroidery embellishment. There are 12 figures on the wool background, perfect for a block of the month. I’m working on a single figure needle case right now!
- Rose of Sharon quilt.
- An unexpected added touch to a jumper . . . There was a hole in the fabric of the skirt right in the front that I covered it with an embroidered heart to compliment the pieced heart design in the bodice. The mistake/blemish was viewed as a clever enhancement to the theme of my wearable art.
- A pillowcase. It was flowers , and it covered most of the top. I did it when i was a teen. it was put away to be finished, years later i came home to find my mother had it on her bed.
- Embellished quilt
- Added a mouse climbing a ladder to a scrap Jacobs ladder quilt. cheese fabric at top of ladder. wanted to give hint to name the block
- Twilling is my favorite and I have used it in combination with quilting for wallhangings and quilts
- Church linens
- Crazy quilt
- Birth certificate
- A crazy quilt block that I made into a flap for a basket to make it into a purse.
- Feathered Star, a Hoop Sisters pattern.
- baby quilt
- Years ago I made a clock face(from a kit) with strawberries…this was crewel embroidery
- My favorite project was quite a few years ago teaching my fourth grade class a few stitches in redwork and we did a quilt of the state symbols of New York. The boys stitched better than the girls!!
- Quilt
- Current one of cotton and wool.
- Kentucky Derby horse and jockey in corner of napkins for Kentucky Derby gourmet dinner.
- Flowers in basket quilt
- Faeries Crazy Quilts for four little girls…all different.
- I did a seascape quilt with wool embroidered fish and other surface design
- back in the day, hand embroidery on bell bottom jeans
- For the first time today…. I made a sewing bag in the hoop…with words “too much fabric too little time”
- Fun & practical… Have whole set of sewing sayings… Plan to make several as gifts all my sewing buddies.
- Hand embroidered a crazy quilt wall hanging
- Quilt with embroidery, blocks and lots of flying geese.
- Back of a leather vest.
- Nothing really. I pretty much love following patterns
- I embroidered a pair of white tennis shoes for a bride to wear at her outdoor reception. I used conventional flosses mixed with silk ribbon flowers. The results were lovely.
- A stuffed duck
- Cross stitch samplers; hand embroidery on a pillow in the center of quilt block
- Crazy quilt heart
- Detailed blackwork wreath
- 50 state birds and flower for a Christmas gift. 10 in blocks, all birds and flowers filled in.
- Block of the month quilt
- What other people find unusual is I sometimes use embroidery instead of regular quilting, through the 3 layers.
- Bathmat
- An 1800s pocket that I wear while demonstrating live in the 1800s.
- A top for the toy box that had a road, hay, a cow, a tractor and assorted bushes and ponds on it for the grandsons to use with their toy cars and trucks.
- Japanese embroidery
- I did a 100 of my favorite patterns and put then in a quilt. for me and then did the same for a friend.
- Quilts, runners ,pillow cases ,towels, dresses,etc and much more .I love how embroidery completes a project
- Embellishments on a floral wool table centerpiece
- Themed baby quilts with a number of blocks embroidered. Example- Noah’s ark, center block the ark and scattered blocks animal pairs
- Seascape art quilt
- stitching on blue jeans
- designed and created a goldwork lizard
- All my embroidery has been incorporated into my quilts!
- Designing soccer this for grandson.
- Combining machine embroidery with free motion quilting and applique in a quilt.
- A trading card-size piece that incorporated quilting, image transfer, beads, buttons and embroidery.
- Tiny witches hat done on embroidery machine
- I hand made a baby quilt for my daughter 3o some years ago.
- Wedding sampler for father in law and mother in law
- I have embroidered Torah covers for several synagogues.
- Japanese traditional
- I hand couched around large oval frames with children cowboys to look like a rope. I also have done hair on small painted faces freehand.
- Letter size picture quilts using free machine work.
- Kitchen towels
- Embroidery on quilts (it’s quicker than hand quilting) and I do a lot of hardanger embroidery.
- FMQ and appliqué for sort quilts
- A full size quilt with 36 original butterflies. I then quilted it and am using it on my bed. I also did a smaller flower quilt and won grand reserve champion in my local fair.
- Hand dyed silk ribbon embroidery
- I made a wall quilt of a large mason jar and in the jar was my bug collection, using regular and silk ribbon to make the BUGS.
- Samplers
- For a picture
- Combining hand embroidery using vibrant variegated thread, shibori ribbon, hand quilting with #8 perle cotton and seed beads in one art piece.
- A cosmetic bag In the hoop
- Embroidered kitchen towels
- I worked everyday during the Watergate hearings to embroidery a stretched wall hanging measuring 20″ by 30″ with stylized flowers and leaves in more than 10 very 3-D looking stitches.
- A 4 foot poppie for my Mother
- Special message Inside of a bag
- Embroidered and appliqué blocks for a quilt
- A tapestry with my own patterns of events representing my friend’s experiences
- Hardanger
- A picture of my great-nephew
- Hand drawn folk art inspired pillow top of three fanciful cats on a field of flowers.
- A Halloween quilt
- A wall hanging with many diverse fibers and some stumpwork
- An original needlepoint vest.
- A felted wool table runner with nearly “crazy quilt” type decorative embellishments, the piece was hand appliqués first, it included using beading.
- Memory shirt.
- Fair theme on pillow for county fair last year. Years ago flowers & things on denim shirts but in thing at time.
- Cross Stitch on a pillowcase that turned out almost solid with thread–I don’t like cross stitch . It is printed too small to follow.
- For a baby layout I Embroidered the top sheet with name large pillow damask around letter of name the bumper pad with animal embroidered with wool thread then comb to make them fuzzy
- Lace ornament covers
- Working with wool and ribbons really bring the project texture and beauty.
- I cross stitched a sampler that was Americana – a slice of apple pie, a copper penny, an American flag, and across the top of the sampler it said “give me the simple life “.
- A free embroidery project
- Count stitch on silk gauze
- Wool applique with embroidery.
- An extremely large table cloth plus napkins – a table to seat 20 people. It was fun! I did it all by hand – before I got arthritis!
- Dress
- When I was 15 I embroidered a shirt with all the Beatles names and faces.
- Goldwork dragon
- I embroidered a bird design on a dress I wore.
- A Schipperkes head digitized to look like cross stitch.
- A heart for my husband for Valentines Day.
- Created six “little monsters” for a baby shower using On Screen Designer foe the ellisimo, learned so much about sizing and density. also tried in the hoop applique, so much fun
- I did bead embroidery on the collar of a silk shirt I was making- the collar turned out great, the shirt, not so much.
- Cross stitched queen sized quilt
- Merry Christmas kit with a combination of Candlewick and regular embroidery, beige on beige, with gold threads as accents. The kit is from 1983 but not done until 2016.
- I big picture of horses jumping
- I digitized Mayan gods and put them and their glyphs around a very complicated cross-stitched embroidery design of the Mayan calendar.
- Finding exact match of colors to complete a vintage tablecloth and determine what stitches to use and recreate the pattern where ink had vanished from the material
- Birdie
- I don’t think that I have done anything unusual. I’ve done some red work and blue work and I am currently working on a Christmas hand embroidered table cloth. When I do hand embroidery, I think it looks better with hand quilting.
- LynetteAnderson’s quilting and embroidery projects
- I embroidered trees and flowers on my jeans in the 70s
- I’m conventional….doing state birds & flowers(:
- Always have some handwork and it travels light!
- In process – 12 blocks with a Texas theme to make a quilt for my husband.
- Finishing a deceased woman’s project at the request of her husband.
- Candlewick rabbit
- A skirt and blouse, which was quite a job, but lovely outcome!
- A sympathy card my sister in law hen her adult daughter passed unexpectedly. I machine embroidered a mother walking had in hand with a child.
- Crazy quilt teddy bear
- On going Crazy Quilt
- Doll clothes
- An abstraction of a ballet slipper
- Using embroidery to enhance a printed panel to enhance the project.
- Three Wise Men in counted cross stitch
- Learning all the stitches for hand embroidery on a small fan quilt.
- A poodle skirt Halloween costume for my young daughter
- A Stump work Bougainvillea
- I use embroidery as embellishing for my quilts or to set off an applique piece.
- Doll’s bed sheets, pillowcases, quilt, and bedspread.
- Am certified in Japanese (silk & metal on silk) embroidery.
- Mine is pretty traditional: dish towels like my grandma always did, embellishments on quilts and clothing, once a number of relatives each embroidered a block to be put into a wedding quilt… Love it!
- Large wall hanging of red work, all southwest designs. Long ago did most of the designs in an Ondori Floral Embroidery book.
- I used applique and embroidery to cover spots and tears in my favorite clothing.
- I embroidered our yacht name on fender covers and winch covers for my husband.
- Aart quilt
- Marci grass wall quilt
- A crewel pillow
- Using machine embroidery to do the quilting.
- embroidered quiltblocks
- Crazy quilt
- Sue spargo stitches on wool
- Door inserts for a cabinet.
- A pillow kit with yarn as the thread
- Stumpwork is my love
- A Christmas wall hanging with black embroidery
- Elizabethan raised embroidery
- A crewel embroidered bed spread. I gave it to my daughter-in-law who had it quilted. Then she entered it in her local fair where it won grand champion.
- Queen size quilt — all wildlife
- Just finished an applique project. New learner. Had embroidered as a child and now 67. Had forgotten a lot.
- Chair back covers
- Stump work
- Embroider denim shirts and jeans. Embroider some designs in quilts.
- An etui
- Hand cutwork set for dressing table. Machine embroidered picture that won Best of Show and a 1st place. Marvelous hobby but really love to mix machine embroidery with quilting.
- Embroidered on a mixed media project. I had to use an awl to punch hoes for the needle to go through the watercolor paper. The mixed media included cloth.
- Crazy quilt and photo transfer images of temples (one image per block)
- Hiding teeny 1″ fairy embroidery designs among the colorful blocks of my granddaughter’s quilt
- A five foot wall hanging of a poem, decorated with florals.
- An outline of my grandmother’s portrait from a photo.
- An appliqued and embroidered wall hanging depicting my house inspired by a painting by F. Hunertwasser.
- A color wheel
- Probably embroidering a queen size quilt
- Stumpwork
- Buttonhole stitch around Quilt pieces like ladybugs and hearts.
- A recreation of Van Gogh’s Poppies with both machine and hand embroidery and a variety of threads, yarns and ribbons as a guild challenge project.
- Blue jeans
- Second quilt, I made horses every other square
- Cross stitch on linen
- Charity block done as a line drawing
- Mini Crazy Quilt
- Grandchildren’s names on fleece blankets
- Quilted purse
- Pillow with a snowman with fabric and with embroidery
- Burn a hole in my daughters nylon backpack and covered it with a bald eagle embroidery. Turned out great!
- Market bags with various funny sayings
- Copying a picture of a large flower. The colors and the texture.
- A 3D house
- Sue Spargo Flowerbed wool applique BOM with heavy hand embroidery embellishments
- Brazilian embroidery on a stuffed muslin cat.
- Embroidering on toilet paper
- freestanding pumpkins of lace
- Crazy quilt
- I designed a border for a full sized quilt where I added a running stitch embroidery and words all around it.
- Miniature silk ribbon album quilt
I didn’t see this survey in time to respond. My most unusual embroidery project was putting my name on the sole of my foot to show how tough I was when I was in high school.
I thought the “1400” was a bit of e-embroidery in your email…until i scrolled down!
So interesting to read everything. Thanks for sharing them all.