This one's for Lloyd..The fish design Great..Cheers Dianne..

Missed this first time around, I'm so glad to see it. It's lovely.

I like that Dianne *

Very nice, you did a great job. Thank you for sharing with us. *4U

Isnt this a genius thought?

Nice job, Dianne!! You'll have to tell us how you did the applique, it's a great idea. I think on a towel this shows up better, and it sure looks like water. Wonderful, a flower for you. Marji

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by diannem 07 Mar 2008

Hi Marji and all....This is how I did it...The applique design is a separate design..I combined the fish to it..Hooped the towel and appliqued the fabric and then the design on top...you don't need any stabalizer and the underneath stitches nicely disapear into the towel...I the lay a piece of woven solvy onto the part fo the name..I hope this helps..The background fabric looks like the water..Thankyou for your comments..Dianne

by shirlener88 08 Mar 2008

Dianne, thank you for the instructions, that does help. I have seen this sort of technique an really expensive towels. Great to know how to do the same thing at home.

This towel turned ou lovely, good idea that background, brings other people on ideas. *4U

this is realy very beautiful!

The towel is so beautiful. I bet Lloyd is a fishermsn. Here is a flower for you.

dianne, I really like this, I like fish alot, because I was born in February. HaHa. I understand that this is in the "Cute" designs, how wonderful to know that our host has such beautiful designs. I looked when I saw it posted that way, but couldn't find it, is the applique part of the design? A flower for you. loretta

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by marjialexa 07 Mar 2008

Loretta, I hope dianne can tell us exactly how she did this, but no, the applique is not part of the design. I would guess she embroidered onto batik quilt material, then used the fancy stitches in her sewing machine to do the applique. Let's hope she tells us! Marji

That is very nice. And a beautiful background.
I love it! greetings Annyn. And a flower for you.

Great job! The fish turned out very well. Very beautiful background! Flower for you.

this looks really beautiful and quite original. I'm sure Lloyd loves it. flower for your job well done

That turned out beautifully!

Looks great Dianne, nice idea, this one is toob big for my hoop so it is nice to see how it turned out thanks. I'm just getting the hang of resizing so I might give this one a go now I can see how lovely it turned out.

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by sanjoy51 02 Mar 2008

thats too big. and a tying error sorry.

dianne, thanks for posting this cute design - Lloyd will adore it. Where did you get this cute fish from? *4U

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by diannem 02 Mar 2008

Hi :-) This design..cuteembroidery.com under Fish..D

by shirlener88 03 Mar 2008

Wow, I had no idea - that the background was part of the design - I guess that is what I was looking ar more than anything else - how it made it look like water - I guess that was just the material that you used. Thank you.!