Gnome for Thanksgiving Blog Hop!
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Welcome to Day 2 of the Gnome for Thanksgiving Blog Hop hosted by the lovely Joan from MooseStash Quilting!
I love gnomes… so when I saw the topic I decided I “needed” to join in!
I also decided I “needed” to learn how to draw a gnome… because of course I wanted to do an embroidery… so I watched a few tutorials online and came up with this:
Well, that took a bit of trial and error but on the whole I was happy with it… so I printed out the line art part of the design and traced it onto fabric:
And that is when I thought I’d do something a little bit different…. instead of doing it by hand, I thought I might try to do it on the machine – do a bit of thread play!
So I went to my handy dandy thread holder to pick the colors I wanted:
and picked some – notice that for most of the colors I already have the bobbin to match and keep that with the thread on the thread holder…
(Dad made this thread holder for me years ago – here’s more about it and a tutorial on how to make one)
I pinned the design to some batting….
I could have used basting spray, but in the past I have found that the spray turns the white fabric yellow over time, so I am back to pinning it….
I then started coloring the lines with thread, using my 1/4″ foot:
It took a lot of turning, stopping, and starting… and some of the small bits were quite tricky…
This is how far I got:
I still have the pom pom to do, the braids, ribbons, hearts and a few more little bits…
But alas, my wrist was playing up too much and I haven’t quite finished it.
I am planning to turn it into a mini quilt, and I think it is turning out cute enough that I will finish it – but only when my wrist is feeling a bit better.
Like I said, there was a lot of turning of the fabric, which put pressure on my wrist.. if it was straight stitching it wouldn’t have been too bad…
Please check out the other bloggers who are posting their projects today:
Thank you Joan for hosting this fun hop, and thank you all for visiting!!
