Machine embroidery vinyl keychain

 

Machine embroidery vinyl keychains. The first one I made with white vinyl as it showed in the design I purchased, but I decided it would be more realistic to do it in the color of a fox. I had to order a sample size of the color vinyl I wanted since I couldn't find it in the local craft stores or through any upholstery stores. They weren't really helpful, so Google to the rescue again! I made it for Emelie, but have an extra if someone else wants one.

Sympathy card

 

Sympathy card for my forum friend who lost her husband recently...I made it with a machine embroidery freestanding lace hummingbird. Her husband loved hummers.

Map play mat

 

I got this world map fabric panel as well as the US map fabric panel from Kathy and made a play mat/quilt for my grandchildren (or whichever one claims it). I just quilted along the longitude and latitude lines on the map It was a quick and easy project and seems appropriate for our international family.

Quilted watercolor heart wall hangings

 

I was inspired by Gina at our Stitched Together group to try my hand at a watercolor heart wall hanging. I ended up making three of them. Leslie and Emelie picked the ones they wanted, and I get the third one. I quilted them with my embroidery machine. I used border print fabric and the quilting was done with my embroidery machine.

First one finished in January, 2024

(claimed by Leslie & Sonja)

Second one finished in February, 2024

(claimed by Emelie & Julia)

Third one finished in June, 2024

This one is mine.

Hooded baby towel

 

Hooded baby towel for a shower gift using this tutorial:  HOW TO MAKE A HOODED TOWEL (youtube.com), but used a dinosaur applique pattern on the hood rather than machine embroidery as the video shows. The applique dinosaur is a Sindy Rodenmayer design from fatcatpatterns.com. The pattern is called Dino RAWR! I did reduce the size quite a bit. 

All Aflutter wall hanging

 

Another wall hanging inspired by a link Gina shared with the Stitched Together group. I think I'm the only one who fell in love with it enough to dive right in. The quilting is a bargello technique. I made freestanding lace butterflies rather than the applique ones called for on the pattern.

IFAQH hearts

 

So far this year I have made quite a few quilted hearts. Most of them are for the IFAQH project (IFAQH.com). A few of these are machine embroidery. The others are machine quilted.

Machine embroidery

Machine embroidery

Machine embroidery

Birthday, Mother's Day and Thank you cards

April birthday cards (cross stitch) for Iris, Leslie, Susan, Kathy; and 3 Mother’s Day cards plus a thank you card (Kathy stitched the cross stitch motif and I made the card) for Mel who gave us so much CCS stash.

Birthday card for Iris

Cross stitch by Durene Jones

Inside of Iris' BD card

Birthday cards for Leslie and Kathy

Mother's Day card for Shirley

Mother's Day card for Leslie

Mother's Day card for Emelie

Thank you card from me
 and Kathy for Mel

Knit socks

 

Knit socks for Matthias that I will give him for his birthday in August. 

The yarn is Patons Kroy Sock Yarn, color Cadet.

Tablecloth, placemat and table topper

 

I made a tablecloth for my extended dining room table with this pretty watercolor fabric. I had enough fabric left over to make 4 placemats and a machine embroidery table topper.

I folded it onto the smaller table so 

I wouldn't need to put the leaves

in for the picture.

Kreative Kiwi Simply Circles

Placemat design

2013 UFO quilt

 

This quilt is a UFO from 2013. I quilted the floral blocks with a machine embroidery feather design and then echo-quilted around the pinwheels. Of course I made coordinating coasters as this quilt is for the family room in summer.

Showing the machine embroidery quilting motif

Coasters

Knit 10-stitch doll blanket

 

Knit 10-stitch doll blanket for charity. 

Machine embroidery heart table mats

 

I made a couple of machine embroidery heart table mats, one for Kathy and one for Emelie. The design is Hearts in Abundance from Kreative Kiwi.

Kathy's finished in February, 2024

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Emelie’s finished in April, 2024

 Emelie’s (the back)

Little bags for granddaughters

 

I made some bags for my granddaughters. A Lay Flat Storage Bag from SewCanShe.com for Julia. I thought she could use it to store items for her sewing machine that she got for her birthday.  I also made some zip bags (humbug and other designs) for Easter gifts for Iris and Sonja.

Lay Flat Storage Bag 

from SewCanShe.com

The one in the middle that matches

the Lay Flat Storage bag will go to 

Julia with some sewing clips.

Embellished Altoid Tins

Machine embroidery lid

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit 

CCS design by Durene Jones in 

Crossstitcher magazine

Precious Things tin 

for Iris' Birthday

CCS design by Durene Jones in 

Crossstitcher magazine

And this little tin for Valentin