Fun Stuff

I had so many Christmas gifts and baby gifts to make this month that it became a blur! This was a fun "gift" that I made for a white elephant game. The embroidery was done on an actual roll of regular toilet paper!! I'd been wanting to try this and this seemed like the perfect time! :)

Monogramed Hand Towel

I love the look of embossed towels. I decided to try a couple different files one free one and one purchased. I'm much happier with the purchased one from embroiderydesigns.com

Practice Christmas Towel

I downloaded this great free embroidery file from sewforum.com and wanted to try it out on a "practice" towel prior to investing in better quality towels. This is a dollar store towel I picked up quite some time ago. I really like the quality of the file and can't wait to try it on better towels!

Welcoming baby Zenith!

Gifts for our newest neighbor!!

Appliqued Girly Monogram

Another great applique from Planet Applique ! I love these T-shirts from Target!

Appliqued Beach Babe T-Shirt

I just love this design from Planet Applique ! It's going to be part of my nieces birthday gift. I love that I can make these appliqued designs for relatives! My boys are too "old" for them! :) There will be more to come as I have several birthdays in the summer to prepare gifts for.

Triton's Gifts

My great-nephew turned 1 and I found an adorable Sock Monkey I had to buy for his birthday, also prompting me to create the sock monkey finger puppets and T-shirt (designs found at www.myembroiderynook.com). The tool belt was a design I purchased from planetapplique.com. My son asked me why I didn't put the design higher on the T-shirt so I reminded him that tool belts are worn around the waist! :) I found the pail at Target to put all the gifts in and cut Triton's name in vinyl to match the pail handle.

Baby Warren's burps, bibs, and blankie

I made these gifts for my good (great) friend's third grandchild this past winter.

Fishing Embroidery

My Mother-in-Law is an avid fisher, and I thought these designs were perfect!

Nevaeh's Gifts

A warm fuzzy blanket and funny bib were some of the gifts I made to welcome home my new niece in February.

Monogram Blankie

I found this picture of one of the first stacked monograms I had done.

Insulated Coffee Mug

I've made a couple of these now. Who knew there was such a thing as Kiwi paper? Love it! Now I just have to make one for me!

Yin Yang Applique

My sister loves to wear black and white and has several pieces of jewelry with the Yin Yang symbol on it. A lady on Sew Forum  created this embroidery file. I used a light weight T-shirt and fat quarter fabric I purchased at Joann Fabric's

Birthday Gifts for Ava

Appliques for T-shirts and insulated water bottle from Planet Applique. These gifts were made for my niece Ava's birthday.

Summer Fun T-shirts

My nephews birthdays are only a day apart and I wanted to try out some of the new appliques I bought from Planet Applique.

Welcome baby Tatum!

Embroidered gifts for our new niece Tatum who joined us just after Christmas!

Welcome Home Baby Triton!

This was part of my "Welcome Home" gift for my new great nephew. Huge fleece blanket, burp cloth and bib.

Embroidered Birthday Gifts part 2

Here is the second series of gifts:

Embroidered Birthday Gifts part 1

I have three birthdays in July for nieces and nephews and beach towels and sports mugs are my go-to gifts!