I loved the Retro Christmas Truck embroidery design from Embroidery Library and wanted to try embroidering a pillow cover to either give as a gift or decorate my living room for the holidays.
I purchased a plain coloured pillow cover from IKEA and began embroidering the design.
This pillow cover, although large was difficult to embroider due to its narrow opening. Once you got the pillow cover hooped, there was very little space left to embroider. With my hands in the space and my fingers near the needle I kept the fabric out of the way and maintained a clear space for the machine to do its work.
As the image stitched out, I was becoming more and more disappointed with the image. I did not like it. I was second guessing my colour choices. Look at it. The tree has no definition - maybe I should have gone with a darker green. The truck highlights were too bright, next time I would select a deeper shade of peach.
However, I have learned over the years, after many crafty failures, not to give up.
The last step in the embroidery design was the black stitching. Wow, what a difference that made. I absolutely love the image. The black details changed this image. It brought definition and pop to the design.
Sorry family but I am keeping this one to decorate my living room.
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