Archive for November, 2011

Hand Stitched Map

Take a trip down memory lane by stitching your cherished travels on a map, and frame it. I would love to do this for our Honeymoon, it would make a great anniversary gift! See it over on Martha.

Giant Cirque Scrabble

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Kind of the coolest thing ever.

Needlesgalore made a giant scrabble set for her granddaughter using the 2″ Cirque Alphabet, and the little one is currently teaching her 3 yr old brother how to use it. Embroidery and crafty education unite!

Spoonflower Winners!

Congrats to our three lucky Spoonflower winners Joanna, Kel and Marissa!

Your comments were randomly chosen to win you this tasty prize. You should have received an e-mail from us confirming your win. For everyone else, you can still grab the fabrics anytime you like from our shiny new Spoonflower store!

Comment # 248 – joanna atilana lovato 

I would be so very overjoyed to get this fabric to go with the new robot designs. I already had plans to get the designs to make things for my two grandsons. Like the other UT designs, I usually end up making things for my family first, especially the kids, as they are always so out of the normal. 

Comment #95 – Kel 

Ditto to what Rain said!!

 Comment # 127 - Marissa F

Such great fabrics!  I love the Primitive Christmas collection!  I think I would start by just staring at the fabric, then once jolted back to reality, I would make Christmas pillows for all my nieces and nephews.  It would look like they were sleeping with a very comfy Christmas present under their heads!’

UT Tutorial – Karen’s Slipper Socks

Since I’ve never been clever enough to figure out how to hoop regular socks (and you know I’m usually up for trying to hoop anything) I was so thrilled when Karen offered to share her tutorial on how she makes these adorable embroidered slipper socks from scratch, so embroidery is easy.

Thanks so much Karen! Our feet will all be a bit toastier because of you, and our regular socks will breath a sigh of relief, released from their fear of being haphazardly mangled around an embroidery hoop.

Moving Stitches

Totally smitten with the embroidery and craft work of Aubrey Longley-Cook, but this animated embroidery really blew me away.

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