Free bird and flowers for the summer.
Right - it's time for more freebies from the files. Ads it's now officially summer, here are two summery designs
A flowery branch
A flowery bird
They’re both for the 5 x 7 inch (130 x 180 mm) hoop, and both are embroidery only, with no applique. Click the link Download Flowerbranchv6 for the flowery branch, and Download Birdandflowerv6 for the bird with his flowers, both in .pes v.6
Goode luck!
A present for the physio
Recently I’ve been spending more time than I’d like with an excellent local physiotherapist, who’s been helping me a lot. The other day I was wearing a pair of earrings in the shape of owls, and she admired them, saying that she loved owls. So I thought I’d make her a little thank-you present in the form of one of my old owl designs
It’s just one of a HUGE owl collection I did some years ago. I’ve always liked owls as subjects - they’re interesting and unusual, and you can make them funny or realistic or dramatic or cute, but they always have character
I’m still going through my (immense) collection of old designs and haven’t managed to organise any new freebies for this week, but I’ll be back next week with more. By the way, if you have any ideas for free designs you’d like to see posted here, just let me know
What the physio wants, the physio will get! 
Two free designs from the past
Right - time for some more freebies, this time two variations on the theme of floral designs. First, there’s a simple little design that was inspired by the works of the famous artist William Morris. It’s only small, but it might find a home as part of a larger quilt or cushion project
Remembering William Morris
William Morris was a central figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, and the second design today is something that looks as if it were inspired by that art tradition
More Arts and Crafts flowers
Both designs are for the 4x4 inch (100 mm x 100 mm) hoop, and both are embroidery only, with no applique. And both are in .pes v.6 HERE is the little William Morris, and HERE is the second Arts and Crafts design. As always, if they don't download properly for you, just drop me a note and I'll e-mail them to you 
My latest project
Because I’m known locally as “an embroiderer”, I’m often asked to exhibit at one of the many craft shows we have here. But I always say no, because I’m a terrible seamstress. I’ve tried making embroidered bags and purses and shirts, but they’re always awful. And they take so much time to make, and if I don’t sell them they hang around in my studio for years. But the other day, I was about to say no to another invitation when I had a brainwave. Not bags or purses, but embroidered greetings cards! They don’t take any sewing - just trimming and gluing, and they’re quick and easy to make. And people like sending cards to friends and family, so they often buy a lot. And even if some cards don’t sell they’re small enough to fit into a folder until the next craft fair
So recently I’ve been spending every last minute making, cutting and gluing greetings cards, and I now have about 100, which I hope will be enough for the craft fair. I’ll let you know how it goes. But here are a few of them
A collection of cards
They're usually very simple designs compared to many of my more elaborate creations, but none the worse for that. They're just small stitchouts trimmed and glued inside what the craft shops call "triple-fold aperture cards", and I can strongly recommend them as an attractive way of using simple embroideries
But I'll be back next time with more freebies - perhaps including some from this card collection! 
Maybe it's working? Try some freebies
Well, things MAY be getting better. There are still some problems with the images that I'm trying to post, but things are a little better than they were. So I'm taking a chance and posting some freebies
In my last post I included a freebie based on a drawing of the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. It’s pretty obvious that I am a devoted admirer of Escher’s work, and I have turned a lot of his designs into embroideries. This week we have another - a design of four interlocking fish. It’s taken straight from one of Escher's drawings - it’s not my work in any way (apart from the digitising, of course!)
Four Escher fish
And just to carry on with designs based on older schools of art, the second design is a simple Art Nouveau motif, which might go well on a cushion or perhaps a quilt
Art Nouveau lives again!
Both designs are in embroidery only (no applique) and both are in .pes v.6
Click HERE to get the Escher fish, and HERE for the Art Nouveau square
And the best of luck to you! I really hope the system is working
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