Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Another dose of sugar


I love stumpwork, I love wool embroidery and I especially love Jan Kerton's wool embroidery and stumpwork.  And........ it is well known, how much I love Turkey Work! Look at that bunny tail!


This is an Australian wool blanket I made for my #2 daughter. It was offered as a class at SAGA convention a few years ago. I modified Jan's original design a tad to reflect my daughter's sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha. I made the flowers into white violets, and added the 5 point crown over one of the bunnies. ZTA's sorority symbols are bunnies, strawberries, white violets and the 5 point crown.When I saw Jan's original design, I immediately thought of my daughter and her sorority. It was so much fun to stitch. But if it was fun to stitch, imagine.....


how much fun it is now! What a cute future little ZTA. Two days old and she is ready to pledge.

15 comments:

  1. Ohhhh Martha you must be bursting at the seams having such a precious angel to model your heavenly creation and wrap with "love and stitches"! Can't wait to see her in the people choice show &share set from SAGA convention.
    Happy Happy Stitching,
    Debbie

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  2. Another beautiful photo! Please, a tutorial on how to do this type of embroidery!

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  3. Just beautiful on both accounts.

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  4. Delightful - the blanketing responds so well to stitching, too!

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  5. Love at first sight!!! she is so precious wrapped up in her "ZTA" blanket!!! I see lots of strawberry and bunnies designs in her future!!!

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  6. Yep, she is a beautiful little "legacy!"

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  7. A beautiful blanket on a beautiful baby! The Zetas have added a lot of new symbols since the olden days when all we had was the white violet, crown, and a carpenter's square! I like these better. She's the best dressed legacy I've ever seen!

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  8. I was thinking, "What a beautiful blanket!" And then.... I saw it draping that gorgeous baby. You took my breath away! What a wonderful photo!

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  9. Clearly, you are having too much fun! :)

    Your new little bunny is the cutest of all the bunnies! :)

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  10. That is just beautiful. Congrats on your new grandbaby - she will be best dressed girl around.

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  11. That is art...pure art...!
    And what a joyful way to pass your creation on...How beautiful she is! :)
    (how long did the blanket take you to make?)

    ~The O’Flannery Boys~
    http://adivashammer.com/?p=1662#comments

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  12. Sooooo precious - what a beautiful creation - both the baby and the blanket!

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  13. What a darling, lovely baby girl, I like the blanket, too! Your work is just lovely. See my post from July 10 - it is a bag with the sleeping bunnies.

    http://californiastitching.blogspot.com/2010/07/embroidered-stumpwork-bag-i.html

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