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Even More New Embroidery Designs!Posted by on Sunday 5 April, 2009 07:38 AM I have added more vintage nursery designs to the embroidery section today and they all include bunnies, just in time for Easter! I've added the missing bunny to the Semco transfer booklet #1, some bunny and dancing pig designs from around 1930-40 and a set of Weldon's nursery designs from the 20's-30's, including the darling pony below plus bunnies, a mouse with a toadstool house and lots more!
Check out the "Vintage Transfers and Booklets" section on the embroidery page to see what's new and watch out for more tomorrow when I hope to add more nursery designs and a couple of grownup ones too :) New Free Embroidery DesignsPosted by on Saturday 4 April, 2009 10:39 AM I have added 2 new embroidery designs to the Embroidery and Sewing section. The new designs are a floral spray inspired by my bathroom tiles and a set of patriotic US kitten designs from WW2. Including this gem ;-)
I've been spending time scanning my entire collection of public domain embroidery transfers so look for a lot more new designs as I clean the scanned images and add them to the website Woohoo!Posted by on Friday 28 November, 2008 09:03 AM My missing vintage embroidery transfers have been found! This means I can finally finish scanning the WWII victory Kittens transfer and offer you a new freebee :) New Free Embroidery Transfers!Posted by on Wednesday 30 April, 2008 02:18 PM I've put up a new set of embroidery transfers today. Sunbonnet Ladies days of the week. They're a vintage appliqué and embroidery transfer from the mid-1930's. I hope you like them as much as I do :)
Can You Help Heather?Posted by on Friday 4 April, 2008 08:00 PM Heather, at Heatherhales designs is looking for a high resolution image of a vintage valentine. Can you help? While you're there, you can leave a comment and go into the draw to win a lovely vintage Vogart embroidery transfer pack featuring some extremely cute roosters :) Some Things That Make Me HappyPosted by on Saturday 7 July, 2007 10:00 AM In order to avoid posting endless posts that just say "I finished another 4 squares", I thought I'd blog about some things that make me happy. In no particular order.
VPS and BiscornuPosted by on Sunday 17 June, 2007 11:06 AM I think I have figured out how to use the new virtual private server thing that my webhost made me upgrade to. We're just having a "discussion" about how they've moved me from a server with php 5 (needed to run the wiki) to a server with php 4, and what they're going to do about it. I've been told I didn't "request" it when I ordered the vps. When they told me I had to upgrade they didn't mention that I would have to make a special request in order to have exactly the same version of php that I was using put on the new server. I'm annoyed but they're pretty good at sorting these things out so hopefully they'll get it fixed asap. I don't know if they have installed imagemagick and netpbm yet. I'm not going to ask about that until I have the php issue resolved. I'm envisioning having to learn to install them myself, which means I'll have to figure out shell access and all that kind of thing. Luckily I have an ftp program that includes telnet and shell so as long as the documentation is good I might be able to do it. Lest I start sounding like I know what I'm talking about, I can assure you I don't. I'm just repeating what the various "how to" manuals I have read say. I don't pretend to understand it at all. But I can follow instructions as long as they're not too jargonish so maybe I'll be OK. On the needlework side of things, I just found out about biscornu. Biscornu are cute little embroidered pincushions made from two squares. They're cleverly stitched together with a decorative seam with the corners offset to produce a shaped eight sided cushion. They're usually finished off with buttons or a charm in the centre. I'm putting one of these on my "to do" list after I finish my suffolk puff/yo-yo coverlet and Miss Binky's jumper. In case you'd like to try them too, here are some instructions :-) I Finished My Purse!Posted by on Monday 16 April, 2007 10:31 AM Since yesterday was my birthday I relaxed with a little embroidery (after taking full advantage of Spotlight's 10% off birthday discount!)
I finished the purse from the kit I bought at the op shop last week. I ended up using one of my own vintage embroidery motifs on it instead of the abstract triangle idea from the kit and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I did end up putting my initials on the left hand side to balance out the design and I'm really glad that I did because otherwise it would have been horribly off-centre. I also think it adds a nice personal touch so I'm glad I ironed the transfer on wonky in the first place! Now that it's not my birthday it's time to get back to work adding the rest of the information on daisy winders and flower looms. Then I have big news (I hope!) before I spend all my time finishing the hat book once and for all! I've decided that, since a death in the family, selling our home and moving 900km up the coast, being homeless for 8 months (lucky my dad had a spare room), and having no room to work have impinged on the hat book deadline long enough it's time to focus 100%. The distractions are now over and it's time for the last push to get it done. So it's flower looms, then big news (for me anyway), then book done. PS: No I am not pregnant :-P. the news isn't quite that big. Current CraftingPosted by on Friday 13 April, 2007 01:55 PM I thought you might like to see what crafting oddities I have come up with today, so here's a short pictorial list
1: A caterpillar body made from loomed flowers
2: A flower made from yarn of both dubious taste and quality. Forgive me, there is reasoning behind me making such a violently green and sickly shiny flower this far past St Patrick's Day. I'm rewriting my article about flower looms and yarns you can use. I wouldn't want to make another flower using this stuff, but it is possible...
3: In an attempt to redeem myself in your eyes <VBG> I have started the little bag kit that I bought at the op shop the other day. I've chosen a nice vintage flower design and will be stitching it in tasteful, non-neon, totally not shiny (unless it's art silk), quality threads because I want to use it when it's finished. It's ever so slightly off centre to the right hand side of the bag so an extra little flower or monogram might find itself added to the left hand side to even it up if it bothers me. It will. I can tell :-P New Free Stuff!Posted by on Tuesday 6 February, 2007 07:59 PM Embroidery Stitches:
And I promise that I scanned it during daylight hours. :-) Eeeek! Get It Off Me!!!Posted by on Monday 6 November, 2006 02:47 PM That's my usual reaction upon seeing one of these
invading my personal space but I think this one is just darned cute! I've put the design in the embroidery section at http://www.knitting-and.com/embroidery/index.html. New Free StuffPosted by on Thursday 26 October, 2006 11:13 AM I found some very cool embroidery transfers from the 1940's on the weekend (at a vintage machinery rally, naturally). I thought they were really nice (and in the public domain) so I put them on the website for free and you'll find links to them all on the embroidery and sewing page at http://www.knitting-and.com/embroidery/index.html Scroll down to where it says "Vintage Transfer Booklets " There's one booklet of medium sized floral designs, one booklet of tiny floral designs and one booklet of children's designs. My current favourites are the cowboys in the children's booklet (is that a gun or a hair dryer?) and the kitten doing the laundry.
I wish my cats would do the laundry ... |
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