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My first (and very sad) attempt at embellishment  

post #1 of 14
11/14/04 at 5:30pm
Thread Starter 
Don't laugh...

soaker

I pulled out the darn caterpiller about 50 times, then decided to make a little bug instead. But the bug ended up looking like a caterpiller....so...what ya gonna do?


I still need to get some black floss to do the eyes and a little smile. It was a lot harder to embroider on a knit item, as compared to cotton. Does anybody know of a good book or anything about embroidery for knitting?
post #2 of 14
11/14/04 at 5:50pm
Looks great mama! I am working on my first soaker now and have 2 holes so far, right on the butt too so I think I may embroider something right over them! sneaky huh!
post #3 of 14
11/14/04 at 6:14pm
I think it is cute
post #4 of 14
11/14/04 at 7:17pm
It looks awesome!!!
post #5 of 14
11/14/04 at 8:32pm
I think it looks great! Lots of knitting books have instructions for duplicate stitch, which is what you usually use for large areas on knitting.
OT, pilesolaundry, I love that name! We outta have a contest to see who does the most laundry... I've seriously tried to talk my hubby into building one large room into our house that's a combo laundry room and family closet, to save us time walking all over collecting and putting away every day!
post #6 of 14
11/14/04 at 10:56pm
I think you did a geat job!!
post #7 of 14
11/14/04 at 11:23pm
I think it looks cute! And yes, is is much harder to embroider on a knit!
post #8 of 14
11/14/04 at 11:24pm
Looks good to me!!

Check out www.stitchguide.com and http://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/stitches/
post #9 of 14
11/15/04 at 12:40am
Thread Starter 
Thanks you guys...you all are too nice

I used those two sites actually. I found that chain stitch came out a lot nicer than duplicate for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because when I tried it with duplicate, you could still see the bottom color in the line between the little v's. (does that make sense?) Do I need to duplicate stitch the duplicate stitches together? (ooh wow,that probably makes no sense whatsoever) Anyways, I guess I'll keep on trying. Although I'm a tad scared after the way this one turned out
post #10 of 14
11/15/04 at 12:58am
Oh mama...don't be so hard on yourself!! I think it's great!!
post #11 of 14
11/15/04 at 1:01am
nak



Good job!!
post #12 of 14
11/15/04 at 1:41am
Quote:
Originally Posted by mamamaya
Don't laugh...
Are you kidding me? It's wonderful!
post #13 of 14
11/15/04 at 2:11am
It looks good to me!
post #14 of 14
11/15/04 at 8:38am

bs"d

Looks great, and very cute, to me, too!
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