Can you remember your very first piece of embroidery? Have you just completed it or did you stitch it many years ago?
Mine has been hiding in a drawer for over 40 years and it came to light yesterday so I thought I would share it with you.
I made this little huck embroidered needlecase when I was at junior school.
The fabric is backed with iron on interfacing (I see that I didn’t even cut off the printed words!) and has a piece of flannel sewn down the centre to make the pages for my needles. It even had five needles still in it, all of which are still useable with no sign of rust after all those years.
I used perle threads to darn in and out of the “floats” on the huck fabric, creating wavy coloured lines. My initials were drawn on in pencil (which is still visible and then stitched over.
Yes it is a very crude piece of needlework but even back then I enjoyed sewing, not knowing that I would end up running my own design business!
I’m so glad you still had your first piece of needlework. I still have mine. It was a stamped cross stitch of a barn that my mom bought as a kit when I was a kid. I didn’t finish it until a few years later. Back then, I would only work on it once or twice a year so no wonder it took me so long.
Hi, I think your needle case is wonderful. My grandmother came to see us when I was about 7 or so. See brought little blank plastic frames and taught my sister and I how to do simple outline embroidery on it.
I didn’t start emboirdery again until I was in my thirties. I did a simple cross stitch kit. I think I still have it. Going to look for it and send you a picture of it. It’s wonderful that the early piece of embroidery led to you owning a buisness. Bye
What beautiful memories dear friend! Thank you for sharing.
Maria del Valle
Not my very first but a very early one was a belt with satin stitch patterning. I was a child in the seventies and you actually could wear something like that.
I think it you was your free beginners blackstitch pattern. It’s now in a coaster on my desk.