Coloring with Thread Book Showcase

Photos courtesy of The Quilting Company

I am so excited to share with you a project that I stitched up almost a year ago for the talented Tula Pink. I have always appreciated her beautiful artwork and jumped at that chance to be able to work with her designs.

Coloring with Thread has 17 designs, plus stitch instructions & color suggestions for each design. I think its awesome that the book includes a CD of the designs. I personally prefer to print on or . It saves so much time to transfer the artwork and as weird as it sounds, I love to wash this magical stuff out and see the beautiful piece left behind.

Photos courtesy of The Quilting Company Octopus Embroidery stitched by Nichole Vogelsinger

I stitched the up the fun flowerbee and I would have to say that my favorite part to stitch were those teeny tiny leaves on the wings. Aren’t they adorable? I also enjoyed being able to make so many french knots! French knots are funny you either love them or hate them. I used to hate them, but once I figured out that I was using the wrong needle to form them… OHHHH MAN… it became a celebrated stitch! FYI… MILLINERS NEEDLES FOR FRENCH KNOTS!!!! I use the size #3 Milliners for work with Embroidery thread.

I decided to frame my embroidery, using a square frame I picked up from target. I prefer to frame without glass because I want the texture to really shine and glare can really take away from a piece.

I thought that I would share with you all how simple it is to frame! So I took some quick shots for you to follow along. If the frame has a board you do not need to create your own using foam core like I did. Also all frames are different, so while foamcore worked for my frame it may be too thick for yours, but any cardboard will do. Cut up an amazon box… I know you have many…

Separate the pieces, I discarded my glass.