Embroidery with Crabapple Hill Patterns...

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03-10-2014, 12:33 PM

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Tartan

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Great embroidered blocks! What did you use to colour them?

03-10-2014, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sarahelloyd

They are so pretty. Are they done by hand?

yes, all by hand. Takes me about a week for each Gingerbread block. And the fishy ones depend on the size of the block... these ones each took a day or two...

03-10-2014, 01:08 PM

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Great job! I love hand stitchery. What do you use to color the fabric?

I use Crayola crayons. White over the whole thing, and then colours.
The directions say to buy the 64 count box, but where I am the 96 count is cheaper.. LOL. And I go through ALOT of white

03-10-2014, 02:30 PM

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Beautiful! I love Crabapple Hill designs!

03-10-2014, 03:39 PM

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Those are so pretty. I love hand embroidery. Do you use any special ironing technique over the crayola?

03-10-2014, 03:56 PM

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Those are so pretty. I love hand embroidery. Do you use any special ironing technique over the crayola?

Yes. After coloured, coverwith paper towel, and press. change papertowel and repeat. Repeat again as long as `colour` transfers onto the papertowl. I colour lightly, so usually the 2nd press is clean!