I cannot count my day complete
'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.
~Author Unknown

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Protecting my hands..........in my style..........

I have been planning my garden spaces for next year's planting season......as the snow falls outside.
I have learned through the years to remove my rings from my fingers and to wear gloves........
so I decided to embroider my work gloves...............

I ran across this embroidery transfer........and loved the old coffee can with flowers blooming through
the rotted hole of the can........
so I embroidered it onto one glove......
which by the way.......was a bit difficult.  The canvas was thick and hard to push a needle through
and my hand ached during the embroidery because it was hard to work the stitches from inside the glove...........but I persevered and finally completed the embroidery.  

the design made me think of one of my favorite phrases........bloom where you are planted......how fitting with the flowers in the old coffee can.........
so I embroidered the phrase onto the other glove.
I have seen painted gloves........and they are very pretty......
I wanted to make mine embroidered.
So tell me..........what is the strangest thing you have ever embroidered on.
I would love to hear!

8 comments:

mamasmercantile said...

I am so impressed, they look amazing.

Debra said...

I love your work gloves...
The strangest thing I embroidered on was a project I thought would be interesting. It turned out to be annoying and not worth it. I wanted to embroider on paper, so I used brown craft paper. I crumpled it up and made it soft and wrinkly. Good so far. But trying to not make holes where you don't want them was the problem. It looked ok-I even appliqued some fabric on it too. But yesterday I tossed it-if I embroider on paper, it will have to be a different kind of paper. I did try ironing a stabilizer on the back-thought that would help-it just made pushing the needle through the paper even harder!

lil red hen said...

Oh! They are much too pretty to wear in the dirt! I can't recall ever stitching on anything unusual.

Carol- Beads and Birds said...

This is a great design. It is amazing how much embroidery can dress up ANYTHING!!
xx, Carol

Anonymous said...

I've seen some amazing embroidery done on vintage paperback book covers so I thought I'd give it a try. The book I embroidered on was all in French and had a Queen on the cover so I embroidered all the jewelry on the Queen with French knots using gold thread. The gold thread was really hard to work with and that's about the best thing I can say about that little project....
_Stacy Z.

Brenda Kay Ledford said...

Wow! I love the design on your gardening gloves. They are so pretty and too lovely to wear in the dirt. You are very talented.

The Tea Lady's Journal said...

Those are perfect gloves to have ready for when Spring arrives. I think they are so wonderful to look at. Can't imagine how you stitched them with the thick cloth and having to go inside the glove. But truly a treasure you have created.

Karen said...

Those are so gorgeous, I would not want to actually use them for gardening, they are too nice!