Embroidery for Remembering
First and this has nothing to do with embroidery, but I’d like to introduce you to chapstick man and tomato man (a double cherry tomato). Chapstick man lives on my desk and tomato man is just a visitor who is already gone now. Chapstick man is ever-present and is dependably clutching a tube of chap stick. They are standing on my desk on the edge of the embroidered piece that I am about to show you.
I can vividly remember when John drew this picture. We were sitting together on his little red couch in his room and he had his little yellow lap table over his little legs. He was 3 at the time and he was drawing and telling me all about his drawings. He drew several pictures, all of them with family members. He drew a nice one of his paternal grandparents. A few months later, I decided to trace the image onto cotton and outline it in the colors he used with embroidery thread. Then I bordered it with two rows of “markers” and two long “pencils” on the side. After that, I quilted it with echo lines.
The image below shows the children around the time the picture was drawn, the red couch and the yellow lap table. They are playing in the living room (John called the room, “lemming loom”), and they are having a great time as usual.
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Donna Young
The 6-week planner is on there..."
Several visitors requested a one-month typeable calendar and so I made one. The calendar is in both doc and pdf format. Only the doc format is typeable.
What a lovely idea. I wish I had thought of doing something like that.
Very cute! I always planned to do that with some of my kids’ drawings, but so far I haven’t gotten around to it.
“Lemming room”
What sweet memories.
I can’t remember how to get your smilies to work here, darn.
Love the embroidery work. :thumbsup:
What a keepsake!
Poor tomato man.
Boy, *green with envy*, I never thought of that,
It is a treasure Donna, as I’m sure you know. I do have things that my first born son Darius cross stitched though. I taught him since he saw his older sisters doing so and wanted to learn. I should dig them out one day and scan them to show off.
Yes, poor little Tomato Man.
I love the quilt. That is so cute!
Your lemming loom looks like ours. I like to see how the kids get creative with their surroundings.
You are so creative! I love your beautiful, priceless quilt.
Hugs, Robin
I am a student attending london college of fashion and my new terms project is to research and embroider childlike drawings of the human figure….
if you have anymore pieces of figures in a childelike form, would there be a possibility that you could forward them to my email address as they would be perfect research!!!! i would obviously put down your name and information as an inspiration.
Thank you very much
yours sincerely
tara