For the Love of Embroidery

Recently I had an idea for a Christmas gift, which involved me hand embroidering “something” (I found something better and now it will be that person’s birthday present). This reminded me of my love of embroidery.

Before I could knit, I taught myself to embroider and I’d spend hours happily decorating things. Once I learned to knit, I stopped. I think I stopped because embroidery was just decorative, while knitting was more practical. I kept all my embroidery floss and hoops, even through my countless purges of craft stuff… clearly I knew I would want it.

I made a few Christmas gifts that involve some embroidery and a cute onsie for Isaac… then I finished all my Christmas gifts and ran out of projects…

So I started a quilt for Isaac… that also will have embroidery on it.

I can’t wait to finish it and see how it turns out because it does not look like how I envisioned it.

I envisioned a simple quilt with cute animals embroidered on it. The fabric ended up making it a bit to ornate for cute childish animals, so along with his name I am embroidering his initials in Celtic Knotwork Monograms and historic looking crosses.

It was pretty hard to get photos with my phone, but you get the idea.

I have to say so far I like it much better than the version I started out to make.