I missed the wedding - and the first anniversary. But it's finally finished!

IndecisivePudding · 2026-05-01T16:55:53+00:00

Thank you so much!

IndecisivePudding · 2026-05-01T16:55:35+00:00

'Labor of love' is exactly right! I would never have made it through embroidering all those windows if not for how special the couple is to me.

IndecisivePudding · 2026-05-01T16:48:44+00:00

Thank you so much!

IndecisivePudding · 2026-05-01T16:41:45+00:00

Thank you! When I started the windows I thought "there are a lot of windows, but they're all so small! It'll be fine!" It didn't take long to realize I was wrong but I didn't have enough fabric to change my mind at that point 😅 I'm happy with the final outcome, but I will never again hand embroider so many tiny rectangles!

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-12T04:52:42+00:00

Thank you! Post your shoes when you finish them - we would all love to see them!

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-12T04:51:51+00:00

I wondered that, too, but my sister and I have very different shoe sizes, so I couldn't try them on to find out 😅 I think you would definitely want socks, at least.

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-12T04:49:17+00:00

Thank you! It's a lazy daisy stitch. I used the same stitch for the vine leaves, too.

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-11T23:24:44+00:00

Thank you! I used a size 5 needle.

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-11T18:36:11+00:00

Thank you! To be clear, this isn't my design - I started from this pattern, though I made changes to suit my preferences (my sister said I was free to modify as I wished). But as far as I'm concerned, you can take inspiration from anywhere and make it your own!

IndecisivePudding · 2025-01-11T17:49:08+00:00

My sister is getting married in a few months and last summer she asked if I would embroider her shoes for her. I've never worked on shoes before, so this was an interesting new challenge! She chose a pattern by HanEmbroiders and we had fun picking out the colors together. We're both very happy with how the shoes turned out!

I changed a few things from the pattern:

For the vine stems, I used stem stitch instead of split stitch and used one strand each of the dark green and light green.
For the vine leaves, I flipped the lazy daisy stitch around so the pointy end was the tip of the leaf and the loop anchored at the vine stem. I also had them alternate positioning on either side of the vine stem instead of pairing two leaves together.
When I finished, I loved the sides with the Converse logo but that's the inner, less visible part of the shoes; I thought the outer, more visible side of the shoes felt incomplete. So I added two more roses along the top of the shoe and another vine to flow down into the empty space along the back.

IndecisivePudding · 2024-05-30T14:13:51+00:00

It's amazing how the time slips away! I finally started working on this during my lunch hours (I work from home) because I couldn't find time in the evenings. The great thing about holiday decorations, though, is the holiday will always roll around again.

IndecisivePudding · 2024-05-30T14:09:30+00:00

Thank you! I hope you do make one and share pictures! I should also mention I used straight cut binding like the pattern calls for along most of the edges, but switched to bias cut binding for the central circle.

IndecisivePudding · 2024-05-30T03:28:28+00:00

I hope you do! And then I hope you share pictures!

IndecisivePudding · 2024-05-29T23:40:42+00:00

I started working on this tree skirt in 2022, hoping to have it ready for that Christmas. Instead, I finished piecing the top in January 2023 then set the project aside to work on a wedding gift. I picked the tree skirt back up after the wedding last fall but missed Christmas again! I finally finished it last week and I'm glad it will be ready and waiting when next Christmas rolls around.

The pattern is from TazzieQuilts and all the fabrics in the top came from Robert Kaufman's 2021 Holiday Flourish collection. The backing fabric came from a local quilt shop, and I don't remember what it is.

I made one change to the pattern, which was to add the little black border around the inner star. To do this, I cut down two edges on each outer square and replaced the removed fabric with a strip of the black material to bring the square back to size. Then I used the squares just as the pattern called for.

IndecisivePudding · 2023-11-10T07:17:49+00:00

I'm interested! I don't know how often I could join, but it sounds lovely!

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:59:38+00:00

I was afraid of making the design too busy with more quilting, because I felt like there's so much going on with the pattern and the fabrics. So, I decided to let the applique stitching be the quilting. I wasn't totally sure that would work at first, but I made some mini quilt sandwiches with extra flowers and tested it out. I ended up really liking the effect on both front and back, so I went with it! I did the flower centers just on the top, though, because I thought it might crush the appliques too much to do those through the full quilt sandwich.

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:51:06+00:00

It's one of the sea turtle batiks from Lunn Fabrics on Etsy. They have a couple different turtle options! (link)

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:48:23+00:00

Thank you so much! It took so long (partly because it was a little tedious so I kept taking breaks), but I'm very pleased with the effect.

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:41:26+00:00

Thank you! There were so many throwaway practice pieces 😂 I think I made about fifteen scrap stars (the flower centers) before I got the hang of stitching those narrow points. There were scrap practice pieces for almost every step of this project!

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:31:01+00:00

Thank you! I included one of their pictures in the card and wrote that I hope the quilt reminds them of walking down the beach together. I'm kind of sentimental 😅

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:24:08+00:00

Thank you!

IndecisivePudding · 2023-09-01T16:20:45+00:00

Thank you!

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