Kids Embroidery

I finished my hoop for the latest Misfit swap recently, and my two oldest girls really love it. I wish I could show you, but it would totally give away who it was for! Anyway, when they girls saw what I made, they really wanted to try it.

I took them to JoAnn's and got a few skeins of DMC floss and they got started right away. Sara, my oldest daughter, decided she wanted to stitch an apple tree. She found a scrap piece of white fabric and I helped her get it into the hoop. She then used my chalk pencil to draw her design on the fabric.

After about half an hour this is what she had.

And this is her finished tree.

She asked me to post a picture of it on Twitter to get all of friends opinions on what she had made so I did. She got a great response and everyone thought she did a wonderful job.

As to not be outdone, my Alice immediately got to work on her hoop. She found a picture of a bird in one of my old Martha Stewart magazines and she wanted to make that... It looked a little advanced for a first try so we decided that maybe butterflies would be a better choice. She chose her colors and got to work. She even got fancy and made little french knots for the ends of their antennas. 

I think they both did a great job and I'm so proud of them! They love making these and I'm sure we'll have many more. I'm thinking these would make perfect Christmas gifts for the girls to give to their grandparents.