Everyone LOVES Embroidery Survey Results

Everyone LOVES embroidery! Maybe not everyone, but you’d think so by the results of last week’s Embroidery survey where over 2000 of you shared your thoughts and experiences. See how things stacked up and check out your list of unusual embroidery projects!

Let’s take a look at the results:

Who embroiders?

Over 88% of you do!

What do you do? You listed a few…     

  • Counted cross stitch
  • Chicken Scratch
  • Smocking
  • heirloom sewing
  • Hardanger
  • Brazilian embroidery
  • embroidery applique
  • needlepoint
  • Brazilian
  • silk ribbon embroidery
  • freehand on machine
  • Original samplers
  • crewel embroidery
  • Bead Embroidery
  • Rework
  • Huck
  • brodery purse
  • plastic canvas
  • Swedish Embroidery
  • crazy quilt
  • Embroidery machine
  • goldwork

 How often?

1/3 of you embroider weekly! 

When asked if you mix your embroidery with  your quilting 8 out of 10 responded – YES! You betcha!

What are the strange, different, and crazy things you’ve embroidered?

We enjoyed the responses so much, we just thought we’d share 1400 or so of our favorites…

  1. Crewel embroidery pillow. A very detailed flower pattern done with yarn.
  2. ribbon embroidery pillow
  3. Nothing unusual….I dabble with wool applique which is often embellished with hand embroidery….I’m pretty good at French knots!
  4. Flower Show–felted wool appliqué plus embroidery on a fairly large quilt.
  5. I don’t consider any of my projects unusual
  6. Large cross-stitch picture including petit-point butterflies and bees.  But have also machine embroidered a few jackets with success.
  7. As a fiber artist, I have incorporated embroidery techniques into many of my pieces, including handmade ceramic tile vessels and paper cards.
  8. Child’s toy
  9. crazypatch vest in special ocassion fabrics cream and white with some beeding
  10. I took a drawing or a dragon and embroidered it in redwork to make a pillow. I’ve also done several needlepoint pillows, pictures and three cross stitch pieces that are framed.
  11. Crabapple hill retreat , patterns with crayon highlighting
  12. I do mainly free-standing lace.
  13. I purchased a butterfly stamped quilt kit. I wanted to do a queen size quilt. I did it by hand. Took me forever. I do not think I will purchase another stamped quilt kit.
  14. I am just a plain Jane
  15. One I created from a picture in a book for a friend to incorporate into a “farewell ” quilt!
  16. Characters (elves, reindeer, dolls, soldiers, toys, animals) spelling out merry Christmas.
  17. heavy embroidery on a denim jacket in the 70’s, won a blue ribbon in a county fair.
  18. the stitches on a crazy quilt
  19. Monet’s The River
  20. handbags and jewelry
  21. zodiac shirts for husband and brothers
  22. A hat for a medieval faire costume
  23. “Tummy Time” mat for grandson
  24. Crazy quilting mixed with applique.
  25. Redwork in a quilt
  26. Can not remember it has been so long
  27. A 20 block embroidered quilt
  28. Free motion embroidery on a quilt.
  29. I embroider on clothing.
  30. embroidered face on silk print of a tree that became a 3D sculpture.
  31. A pair of jeans with free form designs.
  32. Quilt
  33. A crazy quilted wall banner.
  34. Embroidery stitches on an antique lampshade.
  35. White on white crazy quilt
  36. Embroidering a baseball over a hole in my husband’s shirt
  37. Wall hanging using wool and cotton appliqué with some William Morris designs, then embellished with embroidery
  38. currently making a king sized bed quilt with 6×10 units of embroidered flowers and multiple borders. It’s the largest amount of machine embroidery I have ever done
  39. Red work sun bonnet sue squares for quilt
  40. candle wicking with quilting
  41. Anita Goodesign Nativity Barn
  42. Crazy quilting
  43. embroidered quilt squares on a queen size quilt
  44. stitching on a tramping pack
  45. Jacobean embroidery, crewel embroidery for jacket patches.
  46. I am more traditional.  Dishtowels, blocks for quilt.
  47. None have been what I would consider unusual.
  48. I’ve embroidered on Christmas ornaments and also on a few scrapbook pages.
  49. Not unusual but intense: cowboy hat, horse shoe and cowboy boot.
  50. Tissue box covers
  51. Machine and hand embroidery quilt
  52. Sashiko
  53. Table cloth, with 12 napkins.
  54. Pillowcase doll
  55. A quilt that has five appliqued cottages embelished with Sulky 12 wt embroidery cotton and silk ribbon embroidery.
  56. Liturgical for church
  57. I made an embroidered, cloth folder for my boyfriend’s sheet music.
  58. Jacobean design with crewel work.
  59. Creating a Park Ranger patch for a Halloween costume.
  60. I have embroireried items i did as a teenager in the late 50s. My favorite is pillow cases with a topiary of roses each less then 1/2 in diameter. It took me several years to complete.
  61. A block by block tapestry design by Anita Goode done on silk.
  62. Crazy quilt turkey
  63. Wall hanging…. use beading to enhance
  64. Putting some collegiate type logos on several blocks as a graduation quilt. I’m also a commercial embroiderer so it’s easy.
  65. blue jeans purse with both hand and machine embroidery.
  66. I did a modified crazy quilted journal cover for my son that was covered in hand embroidery and beading!
  67. I’ve embroidered clothing, purses, belts, samplers, and a ring bearer’s pillow for a wedding but my favorite embroidered object is a biscornu!
  68. Embroidered sweatshirt.
  69. Crazy Quilted Fan Ornaments
  70. A dog on an apron!
  71. I do a lot of redwork, especially patterns that involve Sunbonnet Sue.  I turn the embroidery into a quilt after stitching the blocks.
  72. Brazilian Embroidery is a real challenge.  Just beginning to learn about it and enjoying it.  It’s amazing what can be done with this form of embroidery.
  73. Currently I am completing a red work illustrated alphabet quilt which I have changed to intensive quilting for each symbol, apple, eggs, mountain, etc. work production time is inconsistent but mostly in a 2 hour period at our Senior Center.The project was started in late 2013 or early 2014 as part of my cancer recovery process. I am finished with “M” so there is hope the project will actually be finished!  All in good time.
  74. Sheer on sheer pieces in shades of red with machine embroidery.
  75. Machine embroidery on toilet paper.
  76. I am now doing 2 crazy quilts as gifts. They measure 54×54 and have bead embellishments and buttons as well as the embroidery.
  77. A quilt top describing an individual’s experiences with mental illness.
  78. Hand Embroidered entire jacket.
  79. Embellishing quilt blocks
  80. A wallhanging of Kachinas on suede cloth–turned out great!
  81. I’ve hand embroidered the underslip for my sisters wedding gown.  She wanted a “special” design on it and the seamstress wouldn’t do it for her, so I did.  LOL
  82. I embroidered on a hat for a retirement gift.
  83. I just finished a crazy quilt embroidery around a picture of my grandmother. It was for a class taught by Brian Haggard a few years ago.
  84. There is none I would have described as “unusual”
  85. Jenny Haskins quilts
  86. Individual Poinsettias around the neckline of a dress
  87. All new stitches in wild colors on the front of a jacket, loved it.
  88. a quilt with embroidered blocks  and border
  89. Needle cas kits
  90. Crazy quilt
  91. Haven’t done anything unusual
  92. crazy patchwork bag with embroidery
  93. I have only done a monkey so!
  94. I created a big heart for my mother and inside the heart I embroidered the flower associated with the month of each of her five children’s birth.  When my mother passed away I gave the heart to my sister.
  95. I used to embroider clothing in college
  96. Nothing use others ideas.
  97. In a quilted wallhanging
  98. Working on 6.5″ blocks from an online quilt along. It is a mixed techniques, so not all blocks embroidery.
  99. Embellishment for husband’s patched Levi knees (geckos).
  100. wall quilt with inspirational phrases
  101. I just do pillows and wall pictures.
  102. sunflower garden wallhanging with hand applique, mix of cotton and wool, embellishments, beadwork, and a variety of embroidery stitches.
  103. Silk ribbon embroidered and strip pieced stuffed bunny
  104. A large crewel embroidery kit with wildlife on it.
  105. Decorated a denim shirt
  106. Large quilt with embroidered blocks and border
  107. three quilts
  108. Tee shirts for elementary school performance.
  109. Bedspread
  110. Antique cross stich designs, crewel enbroidery
  111. Sorry, I never finished a crazy stitch block. Had to put it a side and never went  back to it.
  112. I designed a quilt that was representative of a gateway arch that once stood in front of my great grandfather’s home. I made portions of it with fabric and then sent photos to have those digitized. Then I machine embroidered them on the quilt. The quilt includes elements such as the Virgin of the Guadalupe and many peacocks. I am a fairly new quilter, so I lacked the skills to create it according to quilting standards. It is very flawed.The arch was designed by an artist in Mexico who used Mexican tiles. It now stands in the San Antonio Museum of Art.
  113. Free stitching on wool.
  114. Holly Hobby wall pictures
  115. Nude self portrait.
  116. crazy quilt
  117. None unusual but a mix in collage works
  118. Large peacock
  119. In our large extended family, we made a quilt for my father’s 80th birthday.  We embroidered names for upward of seventy family members, in cursive.
  120. creating the pattern for and embroidering a poem my husband wrote for me.
  121. I made monogrammed pillow cases for Glen Campbell when I was a child.
  122. Crazy patch blocks
  123. My son created design with our embroidery program and I stitched the split design onto fabric and used heat and bond ultra to attach to tote bag.”
  124. Machine embroidery on a tote bag for a student at a local community college, it was part of a class project.
  125. a unicorn; following the lines and color chart
  126. queen sized crazy quilt with single thread stitches on every seam is the most dense and creative project
  127. Stitched a heart onto the tummies of all my teddy bears when I was a little girl.  Was my Grandma’s idea LOL.
  128. Crazy quilt block
  129. Jeans patches back in the 60’s
  130. Gift for parent’s 70th wedding anniversary- embroidered and quilted wall hanging
  131. I don’t really have an unusual embroidery project. I was a cross stitcher for years, then a quilter, and now I love mixing quilting and embroidery. Currently working on an Easter embroidery that I’ll make into a wall hanging. I just watched some of your tutorials, love the twisted chain stitch, going to put some of that in my current work. Thank you for the new techniques
  132. lace jewelry
  133. Silk Ribbon Flowers and plants.
  134. Have never done unusual embroidery.  Love most kinds of embroidery, especially the Swedish huck weaving.
  135. designed a landscape and transferred to fabric and then used as many stitches as would give texture to the design. took months of working on it a bit at a time
  136. Layering recycled plastic mailer and open-work bag on linen.
  137. crazy quilt
  138. Applique with embroidery embellishment
  139. crazy quilt
  140. Child’s traced hands
  141. Stamped linen tablecloth that no one would use, ironing it was horrible!
  142. A spider web on my blue jeans in 1975!
  143. Gold lame geckos with beading and embroidery appliqued to batik background.
  144. A Santa Clause with all French knots.
  145. Used Christmas tree tinsel on a wallhanging
  146. Am adding hand embroidery to a hand applique of my dog to add the minute fuzziness of fur and color depth.
  147. Designed a pheasant from line drawing and embroidered it totally on a quilt
  148. All mine are normal store age bags tshirt baby things hats
  149. King-sized quilt
  150. Doll faces
  151. My daughter’s “cat” quilt featuring her cats each month of the year.
  152. embroidered appliqued flowers for a dog coat
  153. Sweethearts embroidery quilt for my granddaughter.
  154. I embroider some buttons for a wedding dress.
  155. An embroidery over a crazy quilt block with Brian Hubbard.
  156. Christmas stocking
  157. Quilt for a Fireman.
  158. An art quilt
  159. Embellished a pieced quilt
  160. A design that had lots of words in a garden setting.   It was quite large and took me a long time and learned new stitches. But
  161. Don’t think any of my embroidery could be classed as unusual
  162. But applique stitched onto tha background with either with hand OR machine embroidery is NICE.”
  163. “A custom job of embroidery applique—of which I did NOT take a photo. Now, how DUMB was that?
  164. Embroidered with beads on a purse made from Deer hide.
  165. a Tardis for my daughter
  166. I have done counted cross stitch, crewel, and “regular embroidery”. I’m not sure any of the many pieces I’ve done were unusual, but I frequently combine quilting and embroidery for yearly Christmas ornaments for my 8 grandchildren.
  167. Handbags
  168. Nothing unusual.  I do lots of pillowcases and have embroidered squares for quilts.
  169. Sue Spargo’s BOM. They are amazing. Have transferred many of her techniques to quilting projects.
  170. a jacket
  171. Enhanced a painting with embroidery & beading
  172. My Levi jacket. Still a work in progress.
  173. cutwork
  174. I don’t have anything unusual as a project.  I like to try something new occasionally.  My latest embroideries have been done with wool.
  175. I have embroidered on toilet paper as Christmas gifts.
  176. Christmas dove
  177. A quilt made up of embroidered blocks all done in the same color.
  178. Working on a Christmas Quilt with nine red work blocks to do.
  179. Christmas tree skirt of felt with embroidery and sequins.
  180. demin jacket
  181. Using stencils as patterns on a couple of quilt projects.
  182. My Granddaughter’s Levi jackets.
  183. Embroidery and cut work on leather.
  184. Embroidered sides of jeans
  185. digitizing and embroidering logos for gamers
  186. Applique
  187. My dogs photos.
  188. LOL – I call it my Quarter Century Quilt.  One of those pre-printed embroidered king-size quilt.  I started embroidering it in 1973 & finished quilting & binding it in 1999!
  189. a 12 square fall portrait
  190. I embroidered a shirt, a cape and a picture.
  191. Jacket
  192. postcards
  193. Crabapple Hill Snow Cabins
  194. Large red poppies on wool with wool floss.
  195. I dunno!!
  196. not necessarily unusual, but samplers based on stitch families,i.e, running, knots (french, etc…) from an old Readers’ Digest book (I think) with pearl cotton (3 and 5); very pretty
  197. Military tanks and planes for WW II history project
  198. They’ve been pretty predictable.
  199. I figured out how to do my Birthday Month Flower – Sweet Pea.  A wonderful scrolling vine with blooms.
  200. Art quilt with beads galore!
  201. Embroidery on toilet paper
  202. None really but there’s always a first time.
  203. Gee I don;t remember,  They are all fun,  I do sometimes mix thread colors to get some color I like better than just “plain” colors.
  204. I embroidered a cat with “everything tastes better with cat hairs in it” on an apron for someone who dislikes cats.
  205. The center of a most fabulous quilt
  206. Wool appliqué over pieced quilt with  various embroidery stitches as embellishment and design details.
  207. Queen size columns
  208. Not sure if its unusual or not. I used to parts of LP covers on the backs of shirts.
  209. Crazy quilts for my grandchildren.
  210. Using Crayons, sand paper, fibers, experiment with most everything! in my embroidery.There are only 3 kinds of fabric:  Stripe, pattern, solid.  HA! HA! 210-922-0411
  211. Nothing unusual, probably most advanced is a quilt I am currently working on. Hand embroidery
  212. Revolutionary war flag quilt. Mixed applique and embroidery. Embroidered national anthem (last part)
  213. A Mothers’ Union Banner for Cartmel Priory which was a scene from Lake Windermere with 8 embroidered saints shields below representing the 8 churches in the Windermere Deanery.
  214. Probably a Jean jacket. I drew motifs with chalk, then embroidered them, no pattern or hoop. It was fun!
  215. encrusted embroidery
  216. Retirement Rag Quilt made from my husbands blue denim work jeans (with grease spots). I machine embroidered things that he used or worked on as a crane operator.  Ray Ban sunglasses, thermos bottle, cruse ship, flamingo (he worked in Miami) and other things.
  217. Skating dress
  218. using needlepoint stitches
  219. Salem Witches with crayon coloring.
  220. That is hard to say.  I love embroidery and have done so many pieces.  Have framed and made pillows plus made quilts out of my embroidery
  221. Calendra Patterdrip’s Cottage
  222. Dresden sampler on linen.  I started and didn’t know where I was going. I just let it happen.
  223. Nothing out of the usual.
  224. Jacket Embellishment
  225. A crazy quilt
  226. Baby Tag blanket
  227. childrens clothing
  228. Christmas Tree Skirt
  229. Baby onesie. The embroidery was a monkey under a palm tree playing baseball with coconuts.  After completing and get it packed up to send I found a small hole in the crouch area.  I quickly readied the machine and rehooped the onesie. I embroidered several small piles of coconuts to cover the hole and hopefully not to ??noticable!!   They loved the gift and laughed at the coconut positions.
  230. Embroidering faces on dolls.
  231. Heart shaped satin pillow with lots of fancy embroidery on it. Made it when I was a teenager.
  232. Wall hanging and table runners
  233. Embroidery tile scenes from Anita Goodesign.
  234. 2 haunted houses (free standing lace) by OESD.
  235. took a pillow apart, quilted it with embroidery and put it back together.
  236. Designed a Rooster to embroidery
  237. Stumpwork
  238. A sashiko sampler
  239. Twin bedspreads
  240. Twilled blocks quilt.
  241. I mix embroidery and beads and ribbons with traditional quilting as well as applique, wool applique, and mixed media (ie. wool, silk, velvet, linen, etc.) Each piece is different.
  242. Embroidered a religious garment for a friend.
  243. Stumpwork – 3 dimensional work where components of a picture are done separately, then the picture is assembled
  244. sugar skulls
  245. Abstract embroidery on hand painted silk
  246. A tea cup quilt
  247. Crazy quilting a vest. I have entered it in the Wisconsin state fair and won 3rd in a field of 18.
  248. A patchwork crazy quilt bear and various garments with free form emboridery.
  249. Made a quilt for my son out of our old blue jeans and hand embroidered the squares. 40 years ago!.
  250. I made an applique and machine thread-painted old truck covered in a foot of moss hidden into the trees. It’s about 36 inches square. It hung in our local Professional Center for a few months. It’s  my favorite project so far and want to do more like it.
  251. Sharon Schamber where we use the outline stitch to outline and applique at the same time.
  252. Nothing unusual – weird question!
  253. Wildlife projects
  254. Sue Spargo’s “Cuppa” BOM
  255. Hand embroidered Easter eggs
  256. Kid size chef apron for grand kids.
  257. On a Little Brown Bird quilt that took me 6 years to complete
  258. An Afghan blanket
  259. Santa treat baskets
  260. Crayon quilt with embroidery outline
  261. Trying learn Brazilian Embroidery
  262. Aprons for Christmas
  263. Crabapple Hill Studio Gingerbread Houses quilt
  264. Crazy quilt
  265. Custom design on a dance studio shoe bag.
  266. Smocked dresses with embroidered collars; silhouttes of my grandbabies hands appliqued and embroidered; silk ribbon monograms; felt fairies and their clothes
  267. Reconstruct antique needle lace repair and added bead flower embellishments
  268. Cross stitched on a woven welcome mat
  269. Embellishments to cover quilt mistakes, lol
  270. Anything Crabapple Hill
  271. Cross stitching and free stitching
  272. Sampler of stitches, freeform, I love to try new techniques
  273. Crazy quilt
  274. Sue Spargo wool
  275. Pretty typical embroidery projects.  Working on an old 1970s “Sundance” crewel embroidery project.
  276. Ribbon and beads on a Christmas stocking
  277. A lap quilt for a sister-in-law
  278. For me, it was a goldwork embroidery class. It was unusual because I was not familiar with the materials, tools and techniques used in goldwork.  I would like to do more of it.  I can definitely see using goldwork to embellish a handsewn bag, jacket or scarf.
  279. Mostly I do dish towels for gifts.
  280. U.S. Army Emblem
  281. Free form blue snowflakes on a white fleece hat
  282. I want to experiment with a variety of new and old  stitches.
  283. When I was in high school I embroidered playing cards onto my jeans.
  284. Crazy patchwork vests.
  285. Embroidered dishtowels when a child; also embroidered a quilt block.
  286. Challenge for fair competition.
  287. Silk.
  288. In the hoop quilt
  289. Denim shirts in the ’70s
  290. 15 sided biscornu
  291. Squared up and boarded 20 of my grandmothers embroidery squares. I then had one of them framed for my self and shared the others with cousins. They are 100 years old.
  292. Embroidered quilt squares on crown of thorns Mini quilt
  293. quilt and embroidery combine
  294. Wendy Williams o Christmas tree — I had never done wool appliqué mixed with embroidery and beadwork
  295. embroidered trim on a few sweatshirts to customize them
  296. crazy quilting
  297. Flower pounding wall hanging
  298. I frequently use Embroidery on my quilting projects and labels.  Have made a number of Embroidery baby quilts.  I learned to embroider as my first craft when I was 5or 6.
  299. VHS Player Cover (quilted).
  300. Wool appliqué
  301. 3 dimensional
  302. A ribbon embroidered heart shaped wreath, never finished
  303. A quilt that was colored first with crayons, then heat set and embroidery added .
  304. The best for last, what was the most unusual embroidery project you’ve ever done? One thousand, five hundred eighteen of you replied…
  305. No wonder embroidery is such a popular sport with quilters.
  306. Eight out of ten said yes! And number nine thought you asked, “Is your importer quitting?”, but once they understood the question they said yes too!
  307. Do you mix your embroidery with your quilting? Oh yeah, you betcha!
  308. When do you embroider? 1/3 of you said weekly!
  309. a cross-stitched Christmas card
  310. I painted a fairly large piece of fabric with paintstiks and am now added lots of embroidery.
  311. Created a doorstopper in redwork using a pattern from Bird Brain Designs.
  312. Still trying to learn how to do embroidery. I need to get a project to work on. I have done cross-stitch & French knots, but that’s it.
  313. Table cloth
  314. Embroidery using computerized software
  315. Sue Spargo Block of the month
  316. Embroidered flower
  317. A table runner with   Claudia Dinnell
  318. Trimmed a shirt
  319. Copy of an antique piece
  320. crazy quilts, quilted Christmas stockings, felted wool projects, embellished African quilt, and couching along seams on many quilts
  321. A vest for the change of the century “2000” for a friend
  322. In the late 70’s, I embroidered a patch to be appliqued to a blouse.
  323. On quilt tote bags
  324. Ribbon embroidery on the bottom of a bride’s slip
  325. placemats from vinyl shelf lining
  326. I recovered a turtle shaped foot stool with crazy quilting, and did embroidery over the seams in the quilt. it turned out so cute.
  327. I made a quilt that was supposed to be hand embroidered but I did it all with my regular sewing machine, using some decorative stitches and some utility stitches.
  328. I embroidered my car’s name with a flower on the carpet dashboard cover over the glove box.  It was awesome!
  329. 14 quilted prayer shawls with embroidery designs all over them.
  330. My “Dragon Quilt” I made for my daughter.  It is all brocades which frayed a little (learned my lesson there) and embroidered designs appropriate to her on the back.
  331. Wall hanging of our marriage license
  332. counted cross stitch “masterpiece” projects – reproductions of masterpiece paintings
  333. Burt Reynolds portrait
  334. Christmas stockings
  335. Wall hanging of St. Francis of Assis
  336. T-shirts, table runners, x-mas stockings, ornaments, quilts customized with embroidery
  337. A pillow with the candlestick embroidery
  338. Embroidered the outline then used crayons to color in the design.
  339. iphone cross body bag
  340. 15 sided biscornu
  341. 16 place mats and 10′ table runner
  342. I stitched designs from a vintage WWII butter premium. I added my father’s and my uncles’ names and birth and death dates that served during WWII.
  343. Ducktape
  344. A landscape quilt with the floral in machine and hand embroidery.
  345. Sashiko on a shirt.
  346. Add embroidery to everything. I even embroidered little bugs on my son’s shirt tails so he’d leave them tucked in.
  347. Embroidery with applique. Depicting illuminated letters -which is still a work in progress.
  348. Zentangle type embroidery. Free-form, make it up as you stitch.
  349. Made custom glasses cases with lots of cute embroidery for my friends.
  350. Quaddy Quilt after the characters in Thornton Burgess’ children’s book Old Mother West Wind. did embroidery in center of light fabric of a double Irish Chain and it was hand quilted.  Wedding gift for my son and his wife (from Massachusetts).
  351. Silk ribbon embroidery on a denim dress
  352. I included embroidery in two guild challenges and they were design elements that were added to other applique elements.  Both challenging but since I am doing another, not totally intimidating.
  353. I just finished the 2016 Piecemakers Calendar quilt with embroidery embellishments
  354. Stitched pumpkin seeds to a tablerunner
  355. On hem of jeans
  356. Don’t know, most of mine is pretty standard things.
  357. Stamp designs of little animals and created a quilt for niece.
  358. Nothing “unusual”.  Mostly framed pictures, pillows, towels and pillowcases.
  359. First time I attempted free-standing lace.
  360. I’m working on a crazy quilt and having fun with it.  Time consuming!  Each square is a new challenge!
  361. I made a quilt using a fabric with 3-inch circles on it.  Instead of quilting it like normal, I used embroidery in each circle and between to hold the layers together.  I do everything – hardanger, cut work, x-stitch.
  362. Can’t really think of one that I would consider unusual.
  363. Italian cutwork embroidery when I was in  my 30s
  364. Hardanger
  365. Nothing unusual for most people, but I use my extra sew outs for other projects such as pillow tops and tote bags.
  366. large cat in flower garden watching the five birds in the tree….the cat and birds are all thread, the flowers are both fabric and thread  about 3ft. tall /2ft. wide…
  367. A crazy quilt book cover
  368. Embroidered quilt patterns on tea towels
  369. Paper pieced in a wheel with embroidery on all seams
  370. Family did a family tree shirt for my mother years ago. Each family member made a contribution to the project in a round robin style. She loved it and wore until it was threadbare.
  371. Leather coasters
  372. Created fabric design on linen for a stuffed cat using needlepoint, satin stitch and probably over a dozen other embroidery stitches. Lots of different colors also.
  373. Crazy quilt with a celestial theme included a black hole and several nebula.
  374. Embroidery on a stuffed, smocked animal
  375. Seed bead embroidery in flowers.
  376. Baby quilt and chef’s apron
  377. Embellishments on clothing. Also did a framed Pheasants and wildlife piece for my Dad many years ago.
  378. Embroidered my grandkids names on their Christmas PJ’s but they had to find it (I hid it under a back pocket.
  379. Wool owls I glued to my wallpaper border in the guest bedroom.
  380. I have not done any unusual projects.
  381. I appliquéd a butterfly from vintage fabric onto anew solid fabric. Then I added a variety of free embroidery to that solid background.
  382. Christmas ornaments
  383. Snow white and the 7 dwarves
  384. Mixed media landscape. Stitch expressions exaggerating and building up stitches.
  385. Machine embroidered fans
  386. A sigil
  387. A large animal crewel work
  388. A fancy monogram on my daughter’s cloth headboard
  389. Embroidery on a burlap Christmas  stocking
  390. Embroidered a longhorn bull head on the back of a shirt, with label “bullshirt”.
  391. Finished Embroidered quilt blocks (front,batting, back) and then sewing together to make quilt: love in the hoop projects.
  392. Voodoo veve design on a friend’s hat — always gets positive comments
  393. A round bag to hold my hexie flowers.
  394. Quilt label panels with names, then made into pin cushions for gifts.
  395. Crabapple Hill Pattern that had the embroidery starting around quilt blocks & flowing into the borders
  396. Combined embroidered squares with quilted squares
  397. I don’t think my embroidery is unusual. . . this seems like a strange question to me!
  398. Motorcycle on a kitchen dish towel
  399. Silk ribbon flowers on lamp shades
  400. I embroidered ‘kitchen towel’ on all my kitchen towels so my husband would stop taking them to the garage.
  401. My current one ~ quilted, stitched, painted, collaged and embroidered.
  402. A reversible silk quilt (34″ x 54″) with a large variety of embroidery stitches in abstract patterns.  I call it “My Quilt for My Old Age” as between the texture of the silk and that of the switches, I will be able to enjoy it even if I can no longer see.
  403. I am currently working on a free-form piece that will probably be extended into several separate related pieces. My vision is to combine the embroidered work with machine embroidery, couching, piecing and fusing to create an art quilt.  Total dimensions are undetermined. Vision may change as I progress.
  404. Toilet Paper embroidery for Christmas Presents!
  405. I’m pretty conventional,   What can I say…I’ve done numerous pictures several tablecloths and a Sampler. My grandmother and Mom began teaching me when I was 5 yrs old.  It brings back so many fond memories.
  406. Towel wraps, crafts
  407. While making

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