Duvet Cover

I embroidered this on crushed panne with my Brother 8500. The designs are from Hatched in Africa (peacock and everything else). I had to hoop it multiple times because I can only do 5X7 inches at a time. I should have spent more time creating lines for the hoopings, but, alas, I didn't. My mother came to the rescue though and straightened it all out for me. Thanks, Mom!

My latest project

Last summer we toured the Cranbrook House. It wasn't spectacular (not a good thing to do immediately after a 3 week trip to Russia), but it did have an embroidered chair which really caught my fancy. I'm working on digitizing something similar. I'll put my prototype up when I get a chance and maybe even some of my attempts. 

Russian Peasant Shirt Spring 2008

This is my first attempt at digitizing the shirt yoke. I used a combination of 3 different templates to get the eagle that I wanted, but while I like the eagle itself now, I'm not happy with the colors. I took the aqua out and added more gold. In addition I changed the burgundy to a bright red to make it look more Russian. The first picture is of the finished shirt, and the third picture is the color changes which look much more Russian and match the trim better.

Russian Shirt

We went to a Russian Folk show in St. Petersburg. As soon as the first man in a peasant shirt came on stage, I started thinking that I would love to sew something like that and that Stephen would probably be willing to wear it. Then my sister poked me and told me that I should make one for Stephen...and being a very obedient sister, I spent much of the rest of the show trying to figure out how they made the shirts (opening at left side of neck, loose fitting with extra fabric pulled in at the waist.)

The first 2 pictures here were taken through a store window in Moscow, hence the horrible reflection. the rest are from the folk show. The double headed eagle is the symbol of Russia.

Ideas

Quilt from the landing at the guesthouse in Sergiev Posad.










































This is a similar Russian figure decorating an apron.













This was hanging on the wall at the Donalev Monastery. I'm not sure what it's function it; it appears to be a wall hanging of sorts, but I thought that the appliqued onion domed churches might make a nice decoration for a tea cozy.