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I incorporate embroidery a lot in my quilting. Just incorporate embroidery blocks with traditional quilt blocks in a quilt. A good way to start.
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I love to embroider on quilts. Here is my primitive Christmas quilt and a close up, :
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Crab-Apple Hill has a whole series of quilts on which embroidery plays a large part.
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Crabapple Hill and Bird Brain Designs both have embroidery patterns for quilts.
Annie's has a lot of quilt blocks to embroider for quilts also. |
Little Brown Bird quilt incorporates hand embroidery in the vining.
I'm the worlds worst at embroidery, so the quilts I've done that called for it, I've done pen work. |
SewBizGirl, that is a lovely quilt you made! I found my grandmother's gold/brown cross stitched quilt blocks that I had forgotten about. She made them for me in the 70s, and have moved them a number of times. They are at the top of my bucket list now. They will remind me of her love on every stitch I make to put them together. Thank you all for posting this thread.
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My sister that passed away in 2004 with colon cancer at the age of 59...she had embroidered enough blocks that I made her grand-daughter and my two grown daughters and myself all a regular size quilt using all the blocks..I had 6 blocks left and I made my other sister and myself a table runner out of those 6...She lived out of town and traveled a lot, and she would embroidery in the car...the blocks were in a pkg of 6 at Walmart years ago...and they were 18" square... I got all her sewing and quilting things when she passed away....and I lost my MOM at 93, 5 months before my sister...it was a long time before I could do any quilting, but I knew they would want me to continue, after grieving for so long, I finally went back to making quilts...about 6 years ago...I still miss them both everyday...we grew up under My mom's hanging quilting frames from the ceiling...she would hand quilt for women back then for $25 a quilt...can't imagine doing that now...I'm 75 and that was a long time ago...
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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
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Here's one I did, called Aunt Bea's Parlor. Hand embroidery, 1930's repro prints, and big stitch quilting with floss.
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I combine machine embroidery and quilting all the time. No reason at all why you couldn't do some pretty hand embroidery on blocks and incorporate them into a quilt. Have fun.
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My 85 yr old mother embroiders and I set & quilt them. Some I have used the crayon technique to add some color.
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