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Post by jennyap on May 14, 2015 20:25:12 GMT
Those of you who are colouring Johanna Basford's Secret Garden will recognise this design. It isn't coloured with markers, pencils, or any other drawing medium... it is embroidered. And absolutely stunning. Secret Garden Hummingbirds
She has dozens of posts detailing the whole process from start to currently not quite finished. My only stitching experience is cross-stitch, so it's instantly out of my league, but from what I can see she is incredibly skilled/talented. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled across it, but I just had to share. |
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on May 14, 2015 20:27:31 GMT
This is beautiful. She did a wonderful job.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 14, 2015 20:33:36 GMT
Holy smokes, that is something, isn't it?? I am teaching myself how to embroider (youtube is the greatest thing in the world...) but I will never ever be that good.  |
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Post by eebud on May 14, 2015 20:34:52 GMT
Beautiful!!
When I was a teen, I used to embroidery some. I would complete a project then get bored with it and put it down for a while and then come back and do some more. My favorite project that I ever worked was a "Work" shirt that I embroidered. Do any of the 50+ year old refupeas remember when this was super popular. The "Work" shirt (that is what we called them) were blue, long sleeve with a collar, button up shirts. Most people bought embroidery patterns to iron on in the fabric stores. They were patterns like any other pattern. My shirt had some of these but I loved Snoopy back then so I bought a Peanuts coloring book and cut out pictures like Snoopy on his dog house. I traced them onto my shirt and then had to fill in the lines of the drawing. I then embroidered these designs on my shirt. My shirt was unique from everyone elses and everyone always wanted to know where I bought my patterns. I wish I still had that shirt. I have no idea what happened to it. I probably wore it out. LOL
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Post by elaine on May 14, 2015 21:11:27 GMT
Wow! Simply amazing.
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Post by jayfab on May 14, 2015 22:07:38 GMT
WOWEE! That is beautiful!!! Thanks for posting it.
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Post by marianne on May 14, 2015 22:07:39 GMT
Wow, stunning!
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Holy smokes, that is something, isn't it?? I am teaching myself how to embroider (youtube is the greatest thing in the world...) but I will never ever be that good. Never say never!  Thanks for sharing that jennyap, it's really beautiful. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 22:22:25 GMT
Beautiful!! When I was a teen, I used to embroidery some. I would complete a project then get bored with it and put it down for a while and then come back and do some more. My favorite project that I ever worked was a "Work" shirt that I embroidered. Do any of the 50+ year old refupeas remember when this was super popular. The "Work" shirt (that is what we called them) were blue, long sleeve with a collar, button up shirts. Most people bought embroidery patterns to iron on in the fabric stores. They were patterns like any other pattern. My shirt had some of these but I loved Snoopy back then so I bought a Peanuts coloring book and cut out pictures like Snoopy on his dog house. I traced them onto my shirt and then had to fill in the lines of the drawing. I then embroidered these designs on my shirt. My shirt was unique from everyone elses and everyone always wanted to know where I bought my patterns. I wish I still had that shirt. I have no idea what happened to it. I probably wore it out. LOL The blue workshirt was one of my first projects. I also embroidered on that God awful blue bloomer onsie gymsuit thing we had to wear in middle school.  A lot of us did that. |
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Post by lucyg on May 14, 2015 22:27:40 GMT
Holy crow. That is amazing!
I've done some embroidery (nowhere near that quality, of course) but I prefer counted thread embroidery. I like the mathematical feeling to it. But it's never going to be as beautiful as that.
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Post by eebud on May 14, 2015 22:38:48 GMT
Beautiful!! When I was a teen, I used to embroidery some. I would complete a project then get bored with it and put it down for a while and then come back and do some more. My favorite project that I ever worked was a "Work" shirt that I embroidered. Do any of the 50+ year old refupeas remember when this was super popular. The "Work" shirt (that is what we called them) were blue, long sleeve with a collar, button up shirts. Most people bought embroidery patterns to iron on in the fabric stores. They were patterns like any other pattern. My shirt had some of these but I loved Snoopy back then so I bought a Peanuts coloring book and cut out pictures like Snoopy on his dog house. I traced them onto my shirt and then had to fill in the lines of the drawing. I then embroidered these designs on my shirt. My shirt was unique from everyone elses and everyone always wanted to know where I bought my patterns. I wish I still had that shirt. I have no idea what happened to it. I probably wore it out. LOL The blue workshirt was one of my first projects. I also embroidered on that God awful blue bloomer onsie gymsuit thing we had to wear in middle school. A lot of us did that. Ha! I had a blue onsie gym suit too. We had to wear ours through our high school years. Mine wasn't a bloomer though but it sure was ugly. I didn't embroidery on it. I did have all my little badges that I got for most of the athletics we did. I was very athletic when I was in school and pretty good at most of them except softball. I hated softball and never really tried so I have no idea if I could have earned that badge or not. LOL Those were sewn on to our uniforms. |
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Post by gailoh on May 14, 2015 22:56:59 GMT
Beautiful
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Post by missfrenchjessica on May 14, 2015 23:24:13 GMT
Wow! That's gorgeous! I'm a little jealous 'cause I could never do that--I have zero patience for cross-stitch/embroidery/anything with a sewing needle! She's very talented!
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Post by anxiousmom on May 14, 2015 23:31:39 GMT
Holy smokes, that is something, isn't it?? I am teaching myself how to embroider (youtube is the greatest thing in the world...) but I will never ever be that good. Never say never! Thanks for sharing that jennyap, it's really beautiful. I think I can safely say that if I ever got to be that good, my eyes would be so old and feeble I would need the Hubble telescope in order to thread the needle and see what I am doing. (I can say that since I already use both a step up in my reading glasses strength along with sometimes have to use the magnifier in the light to see what I am doing. ) |
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Post by back to *pea*ality on May 14, 2015 23:53:48 GMT
Lovely - tfs!
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Post by flanz on May 15, 2015 0:06:36 GMT
How fun! And impressive. thanks for sharing.
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Post by foolana on May 15, 2015 0:07:32 GMT
That's amazing! I believe that if you make a copy of something on an inkjet printer you can iron it on fabric. I don't know if it washes out, though. Thanks for sharing the idea!
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A lot of us did that.
