Featherweight Embroidery: Part 6 ~ Colorful Stitch Progress

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1. Lori Holt Sewing Happy Featherweight Embroidery Kit - If it is sold out, you can sign up for the in-stock notification at product link, and you will be notified as soon as we have more kits available. 
2. 4-inch or 6-inch Embroidery Hoop
3. Glass-Head Pins
4. Iron
5. Sewline Water Erasable Roller Ball Pen
6. Embroidery Scissors
7. Hand-sewing needles in various sizes
8. Needleminder
9. The Beekeeper Thread Minder by Lori Holt
   
10. Already have the supplies on hand?
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I've been stitching away on my Lori Holt version of A Quilter's Dream, and it has been fun to work with all the colors this time around. The embroidery has been coming along quite rapidly.

Of course, the color placement you choose to do may be entirely different than mine, which is part of the fun and makes each picture unique. I ended up trying to copy the trim color on the Featherweight machine, as faithfully as possible to a real machine. But you could save time and do it all one color, and it would look just as nice.

Doing the quilt in different colors actually simplified it for me since there are less lines in all directions that need embroidered at once, like I found when working on the Autumn Vintage kit. However, it does take some forethought to try and figure out which lines I want to do in each color.

I also caught this second time around, a discrepancy between the pattern and the pattern photo. On the pattern you trace, those certainly are X marks in the upper quilt corner, but on the main photo if you look closely, they are French knots just like the French knots lower down. So for this model, I went with the French knots in order to keep the quilt's
continuity. I do not know if all the patterns have this mistake, but it is something to be aware of when you are tracing your pattern onto the cloth.

When working with multiple colors, you can do it several ways. You can work all of one color at once, skipping around over the pattern if necessary. You can work with one color and then stop, unthread and rethread the needle when you are ready for another color. Or as I prefer, you can keep several needles on hand, threaded with the different colors you are using. That way you have a lot less needle threading to do, and it saves time.

But saving time is not always the object when doing a bit of handwork like this embroidery. So however you choose to do it, just enjoy the process! I am looking forward to finishing this up this week and getting started on the pieced frame. It will be fun to see what it will look like in bright colors.

See you next week!

Kristen

from Verity Vintage Studio

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