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This week, I'm working on a job to embroider some pillow covers. Â I've worked with this client before, so she is comfortable giving me free reign on the project. Â Having so little direction is very exciting creatively, but sometimes paralyzing because I have so many ideas.
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I've settled on a central theme of dragonflies, supplemented with some other fun elements. Â Everyone likes dragonflies, right? Â What's the worst than can happen? (A motto that tends to permeate most things I do, for better or worse!)
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Most designs for this project created by the amazing team at Urban Threads. Â Their creativity has really fired up my own and features in a lot of my embroidery projects.
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I haven't been doing as much embroidery as quilting since moving house and setting up my new sewing room, so my embroidery threads haven't had a rack set up yet like my sewing and quilting threads. Â As you can probably see, for embroidery I prefer Floriani Thread.
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I love the entire series of henna/mendala inspired designs they have and can't wait to have an excuse to use all of them. Â This one is going to become a large, central dragonfly for one of the pillow covers.
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 I love variegated thread more than is rationally appropriate.  It can be a total tossup to use in embroidery, though, as the color change can really make or break a design, and you have essentially no control over it.
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This fairy seems to be surviving my variegated experiment. Â The one on the pillow cover seems to be doing ok, too.
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For now, I'm just going to keep celebrating Taylor Swift's return to Spotify by bopping along and singing loudly, even if I have to shut the door to avoid spousal retribution.
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