Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #19

The past week turned into an unplanned blogging break.  One of the sewing projects I was working on took longer than I had estimated and for the other, well… what was supposed to be a quick, fun project of sewing a new nightgown turned into correcting mistakes in the purchased pattern that I didn’t even notice until after I’d already cut the fabric out (more on that in a future post.)

I was so involved with those projects that it wasn’t until later on Friday that I realized that I hadn’t posted since Monday and then I decided to take the weekend off as well.

But I’m back today with another adorable vintage Workbasket embroidery pattern from the series of dancing veggies that I’ve been posting for the past few weeks.  Last Monday, I promised you the lead singer for the band and here he is singing his heart out.

I learned a new stitch in the process of embroidering this guy.  I went in search of a stitch that would look like the “eyes” you find on a real potato and found video instructions for the raised cup stitch.

Because the dimples/eyes are quite small with the biggest one above being about 3/16″ and the smaller ones only 1/8″, completing only the first two rounds of the stitch were enough to give me the effect that I wanted.   It’s actually quite a fun stitch to watch come together and I’ll likely be looking for ways to use it in future projects.

This vintage pattern can be downloaded as a pdf here.

Welcome to Stitchery Link Party #19

For those who may be visiting for the first time… every Monday I host a link party in which I invite others to share their hand embroidery projects.  I am constantly amazed and inspired by the items that are linked up each week.

If you’ve never linked up to a link party before and would like to join in, I’ve written a quick tutorial called How to Link Up to a Link Party to help you not only link up to this party but to any link party you might like to participate in.

The rules for linking up are simple:

1. The project can be anything you’ve made as long as it includes embroidery stitches in some form. Such projects might be but are not limited to redwork, blackwork, goldwork, bluework, (etc), counted cross-stitch, crazy quilting, crewel, silk ribbon, pulled thread, hardanger and sashiko.

These projects do not have to be vintage or vintage inspired. All styles are welcome as long as it’s hand embroidered.

2. Link directly to your blog post, not to your blog home page.

3. If you happen to sell your embroidery or embroidery patterns, feel free to link up to a blog post you’ve written about a project you’re selling, but No direct links to shops or websites selling things.

4. This will be a curated link party. In other words, if a link does not conform to the three simple rules above, it will be removed.

The next three are more requests than rules.   They are by no means a requirement to take part in the party:

5. Please link back to the Stitchery Link Party with a text link somewhere in your post. Or if you’d prefer you can use the cool button that our son designed for me.

Simply copy and paste the code you’ll find under the button in my left side bar. You can add it to your post or to the sidebar of your blog.  (Please note:  For those of you who have already been kind enough to add the button, the coding has been updated and I would so appreciate it if you would grab the new code.)

6. As well, please share the love and visit one or two (or more) of the other links and take time to leave a comment.

7. I would, of course, love it if you decide to follow me but it’s not necessary in order to take part in the link party. (If you do decide to follow me, you can subscribe to e-mail updates in the box on the upper right hand side bar. You will then be sent an activation e-mail.  Once you click on the link in that e-mail, you will begin receiving updates each time I post.  Buttons to follow me on other social media are in the upper left hand side bar.)

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