Fun Fri~ Daughter's Bday Card: Lover of Dogs and Daffodil Fields

  

 Here in Kentucky we get to experience some beautiful

daffodil fields.

They flourish in farm fields where once upon a time

there must have been a house close by and someone planted them.

Over time the field got cultivated or plowed

which turned out to be the perfect way to split up, divide the bulbs 

and scatter them. 

They come up, bloom and go away

by the time the farmer needs the hay

or cattle just keep on grazing.

So my daughter loves to go back home and see the fields on the back of the farm.

 We all do.

For years I have wished for a light box

when doing some of my projects,

especially the fabric collage pillows and cards.

For Christmas my friend Lenita gave me

an Amazon card.

So I got myself a light box.

The first was way too big.

This one arrived last week

and its perfect

and just in time to make

may daughter's card.

 

First I ironed on interfacing to white fabric.

Then traced a card template with a heat sensitive pen.

I found some blackline clipart online. 

This dog came from Clipart LIbrary.

I resized the clipart in Open Office Word Processor (free)

to fit the card front.

This lightbox made the tracing so

much easier on my old eyes.

 

Black thread was used to stitch the outline of the dog.

Loaded the machine with

green embroidery thread in the needle and

white embroidery thread in the bobbin.

Practiced stems.

Starting at the * in the center

straight up, down,

to the right and back

to the left and back.

Tie off (my machine has a tie off button)

or backstitch.

 

Tiny ovals were cut from yellow fabric

Machine stitch length set at 1.0

Stitched ovals with about 4 stitches vertically.

Again, I began and ended stitch with tie off,

or pull long threads to the back and tie.