Birds and Blooms Embroidered Cushion

Linda Guy

Final size:

41cm (16in) square

USD $9.09

Intermediate

Embroidery

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Description

Create a sweet embroidered cushion featuring appliqué flowers with Linda Guy’s embroidery cushion pattern. Embellish the flower designs by selecting and fussy cutting fabrics for appliqué, and embroider the sweet little birds, flowers and hearts in red thread to create a stunning redwork embroidery.

Perfect for fussy cutting your fabrics to create interesting designs for your appliqué flowers
The red-only embroidery doesn’t detract from the overall design, and relies on the print fabrics for extra colour
Materials list includes DMC thread colour Linda used
Linda used needleturn appliqué but you can adapt the design to suit your preferred method of appliqué
Detailed instructions take you from creating your embroidery and appliqué through to finishing off your cushion
Includes Linda’s tips on appliqué and how you might want to alter the design to make it a bit different
A good intermediate-level project for crafters with some embroidery and appliqué experience

Materials

Designer

Linda Guy

What’s your idea of the perfect stitching day? A perfect stitching day right now would be at the beach, sitting under a tree covering paper pieces or hand stitching. Cup of tea, piece of cake and, most of all, some sunshine. I’ve lived this day a few times when my son came back from Australia and when I was holidaying over there, so there are some good stitching memories. And my sewing bag is full of covered hexagons!

Where do you like to do your work – in a studio, in the garden, in an armchair? All three of those, depending on what I’m sewing. When it’s winter in New Zealand, I take to my armchair in front of the fire. It’s where I do all my appliqué in the evening.

How many stitching projects do you think you tackle each year? I have a very long list of ‘to do’ sewing projects. I’d like to think I could do them all, but I just do what I can and enjoy all the different stages as I go.

What are your sewing essentials? Oooh, well … appliqué pins; Roxanne’s glue; Sewline mechanical pencil and glue pen; Bottom Line Thread; templates for hand piecing; straw needles; and a toothpick or three.

What sort of projects do you like to take with you when you are on the move? I take some redwork stitching and some paper templates. Small appliqué projects, too. Even if I don’t get to stitch, it’s still there, just in case.

How would you describe your stitching style? I think I’d describe it as a little bit folk art. I love all types of stitching, especially redwork on linen with some appliqué, as well. I love birds on quilts. There’s something restful about them and, as hard as I try not to include them, they always seem to appear.

What’s the largest stitching endeavour you have ever worked on – and the smallest? The largest stitching endeavour was a quilt 105in square. It was my second quilt and had lots of appliqué and tiny hand-quilting stitches with intricate quilting patterns. Today, I go in for the slightly larger stiches! The smallest project is a wool sewing keep that holds a pair of scissors and a packet of needles.