Dixie Dogwood

Here's another little project I did back in 2011. When she was a child, my mom's family used a set of dishes with a Dixie Dogwood pattern. This is what it looks like:

About 15 years ago, she had gone looking and put together a beautiful set of dishes in this pattern. For Mother's Day, I'd wanted to make a set of napkins with a coordinating pattern. When I was a kid I had done cross-stitch, but I hadn't done much since then. This was all pretty much made up on the spot.

I found a set of light cream napkins at Target, and bought embroidery supplies at our local hobby store of choice. I drew the design I wanted on in pencil and followed the lines when stitching. After a few hours, here was the final product:

What I learned:

• Embroidery, at least at my mediocre level, was faster than I expected. It's also suprisingly satisfying to have as a finished product.
• Be careful to not run dark thread behind cream fabric. It'll totally show through.
• French knots in particular are easy to do but look amazing!

Conclusion: 8/10, would stitch again.

 

-CDKS

POSTED: July 21, 2014 | CATEGORIES: crafts  | TAGS:

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