When I took up embroidery in 2020, one of the books I read suggested using up bits of thread by doing some straight stitches until the thread was gone. I thought this was brilliant and set up some material with initials of family members and marked where the squares would be cut up once I was done. Then I set to using up the bits of thread. Two years later: done!
I’m quite happy at how they turned out. I especially love the heavy metal font I used for all but one. The other one was the tattoo font—I wasn’t pleased with it and abandoned it for the font of the music of my youth. This is a Thanksgiving project because the backing is a fun surprise. It’s made from the shirt Matt wore when we got married. The shirt ripped while he was at a family reunion this summer. He brought it home and I washed it and tucked it away until he left for Thanksgiving in North Carolina and I could finish this project. I’m very excited to give these coasters to my family at Christmas.
Three squares of doodle stitching also are being sent as Christmas presents. For this one, I traced the bird from a book by Little Dear and then freestyled the rest.
This was a straight ripoff of a cozyblue embroidery pattern (sorry!) though I did eyeball it and not trace it from the picture. (I do buy things from that store.) It’s this one, if you want to be a better person than me and purchase.
This is another one where I traced the goldfish from Little Dear and freehanded the lily pads and reeds. The colors are from Stitch Palettes.
These also got the backing from Matt’s shirt.
I’m quite please to have finished these projects.