I have been wanting to make a certain embroided wall hanging for quite a while. So I finally got around to it this fall.
Here is a photo of my parents' house. I had a regular-size photo, which I xeroxed and enlarged. I outlined the important parts of the house.
Then I traced it onto tracing paper. I had always thought that I'd make this a red-work project. But then I thought, red isn't exactly my mom's favorite color. Oftentimes one also sees "blue-work" and "black-work." But in the end I decided to make it multi-color.
I had a lot of fun with this embroidery. I used Frixion pens to transfer the image from the tracing paper onto the fabric. It was a piece of fabric that I had tea-dyed a long time ago, and it had a fusible lining on the back.
I'll show you some of the detail.
Finished with the embroidery, I had to decide on border(s). These next four photos are really poor quality, but all I was wanting to see was color combinations.
I finally decided on a green flange with the brown grunge fabric.
Of course, I added a hanging sleeve and a label before mailing it to MomStitches for Christmas.
Of course, I forgot to measure it, but it's not real huge, maybe 15 inches wide(?).
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