If you’ve got a niche and a nose for what you know you like, then waste your time, just drop that dime and dial into to what you know you want.
I love using interesting fabrics in my projects and had great fun going through my stashes auditioning them. I wanted large feathers for a runner using fabrics that would make them colorful and each one a little different from the other.
‘Add a touch of flair and a bit of dare to your next machine embroidery project, with Prisms le Fleur.’
Dee is a friend of mine who has dark auburn hair and a peaches and cream complexion. Also her favorite color is blue.
I asked another friend what saying I should add to it. She thought about it and said “Be Dee-Lightful!” and I immediately loved it. Thank you Mari for that perfect description to this Dee-Lightful picture.
Dee is a tender heart, whose expertise in many subjects makes for great conversations. I have learned a lot about computers – social media and cyberspace security from her. She is also a Dee-Lightful person.
I sewed this Dee combination design next to Pami onto green cotton/linen. Now I can make the pretty long pillow I had planned for this project. Her dress is applique fabric but the rest is embroidery. The fabric I chose for her dress has a whirl that almost matches the whirl of her dress in the wind. A happy surprise.
The wing needle lacy edge along the bottom of the hem is sewn with a regular needle.
In this version of Dee, her dress is not applique (but it can be). Instead I sewed the fill in her dress with a wing needle as well as the lacy hem. You can see the light coming through the holes created by the wing needle when making the lacy circles on the hem. Light shows through some of the wing needle eyelets in her dress as well.
Although I offer two versions of Dee’s dress – applique and wing needle, it can also be both. So there are really three versions of Dee’s dress. The wing needle fill on her dress can be sewn through the applique fabric as well.
It’s your choice – applique, wing needle fill, or applique + wing needle fill for her dress.
I made a few computer renderings of alternate hair colors. The same thread color choices will apply regardless if a brunette, blond, red, or auburn. The colors will still be considered dark, darker, darkest, plus a lighter dark for the highlights in her hair. I hope these are helpful.
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Designs Include Step-by-Step PDF instructions
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Please note that while these designs do not have a lot of thread colors they do have many thread changes. They are necessary. Don’t consolidate them. Some sections have to sew before other sections.
Making Lace? Stitch it right the first time. Always keep a spool each of white and charcoal Wonderfil Invisafil 100wt on hand to fill those bobbins and up your embroidery game.
"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
Narrated by the author
"The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day."
― Richard Condon,
The Manchurian Candidate
