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by mops Moderator ( edited 15 May 2014 ) 13 May 2014

Fish bowl and vase


Seeing darlingwife's fish bowl I remembered I digitised one a couple of years ago, which I never stitched out. So now that my granddaughter is asleep on the settee, I looked it up and thought I could easily change the bowl into a vase and added a cornflower bouquet. I won't be able to use my embroidery machine till I'm home again, so plenty of time (I think) to remove the barley and add some extra flowers.

I had a go at it, digitised some poppies. Used an old photograph for the poppies and for the leaves I looked at two artificial flowers my daughter has to brighten up a dull corner. I have yet to remove overlaps and streamline the stitching order but like what I got so far.

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by darlingwife 19 May 2014

Oh I just love your fish bowl! You definitely Inspire me! Thank you
Linda

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mops by mops 28 May 2014

Thank you.

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by pacmp 17 May 2014

Like others I really could watch these stitch out over and over again! Love your work! I have so many of your designs I have downloaded from both DBC and You Embroidery and I am hoping my body will allow me to do more stitching so I can make use of the designs but until then, each time I look at each of the designs as I plan out some charity quilts your designs bring a smile to my face and I thank you for that. I am sure the smiles will be even bigger as I watch the designs stitch out but until then, the smile just seeing the design I will eventually stitch, I will accept gratefully! Thank You for sharing your talent.

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mops by mops 28 May 2014

Thank you. I hope you will be able to stitch again soon.

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by Patricia109 15 May 2014

Clever Girl,
Thanks for reminding me why I am not doing digitizing. :-)
Lovely work - all three!
Stitching out is so fascinating to watch. Mesmerising in fact.
I could stay here all day.

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mops by mops 16 May 2014

Thank you.
I agree with the mesmering part. I have a screensaver of one of my designs - and it always fascinates me to see it doing its magic on the black screen.

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by marjialexa Moderator 15 May 2014

Love the designs! But even more fascinating is watching the second one sew out--how in the world did you manage to post a virtual sew out? Is that in the Embird program, or the Viking? Super job, anyway, thanks for sharing it. I love cornflowers and poppies, anyway. My mother's will bloom soon, ones she planted here at the farm probably 40 years ago. Keeps something of her alive for me. Hugs, Marji

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mops by mops 16 May 2014

Embird offers that, nice feature isn't it. You can also have it make a screensaver of any design you have, not just the ones you digitize.
Glad to see you here!!

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by dailylaundry 15 May 2014

Well done!! I am away from my embroidery machine for the best part of the month - I am further organizing my designs - wish I had you talent - digitizing would be so wonderful!! Hugs to you, Laura*

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.
Organizing designs is a task I'd rather skip. My own are rather well named and organized, although half of them in English, half of them in Dutch; seems to depend on what I was doing - having Cute open or talking to my hubby, so I could translate half of them, but which half :)
All others are by site and then per category; not the most ideal way, but I'd rather not change the system.

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by toogie 15 May 2014

I like this flower arrangement,you ended up with.Very nice,.....do they also have a scent-lol

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you. You could stitch them on a sachet with some dried flower petals :)

toogie by toogie 15 May 2014

I was just joking with you. I just meant they are so pretty,they shoud smell.-T

mops by mops 15 May 2014

I know!

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by darenluan 15 May 2014

Beautiful, I like both of them.

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by lidiad 15 May 2014

WOW! That's a wonderful design, the poppies go so well with the cornflowers, and the vase completes the design.
Hugs, Lidia

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by manami 14 May 2014

Dear Martine, it is beautiful! Your work is always wonderful! Love and hugs, Yoriko

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by noah 14 May 2014

Awesome as always hugs

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by sewilso 14 May 2014

Very nice, I love that combination!

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mops by mops 23 May 2014

Thank you.

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by gramsbear 14 May 2014

Wonderful job of a redo!!! Hugs, judy

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by anssmile 14 May 2014

Beautiful!

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mops by mops 15 May 2014

Thank you.

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by marianb 14 May 2014

You never cease to amaze us with you talents... Do love the red of the poppies with the blue cornflowers

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mops by mops 14 May 2014

Thank you.

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by pennifold 14 May 2014

Dear Martine, you are just so clever, a real artist with embroidery threads as your medium. Love all your work, love Chris

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mops by mops 14 May 2014

Thank you, Chris, it is much easier than painting as you can reduce the size of one element, enlarge another, rotate a third and move the components around until you like your composition. The tedious part starts when you change the stitching order so you can replace jumps by connection stitches and make sure there are a minimal number of thread changes.

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by teun 14 May 2014

Hi Martine Alles goed
Ik vindt dit een heel mooi tavereeltje als ik het zo mag zeggen

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mops by mops 14 May 2014

Dank je, ja, alles prima, zelfs het weer.

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by Leaha 13 May 2014

These would make a nice set to have love the way the bowl and the vase match. Love the flowers and the barley, but other flowers would be nice also. That's why you are the digitizer and I'm just a wannabe. Have a wonderful time. :)

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mops by mops 14 May 2014

Thank you!

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by mops Moderator 13 May 2014

Thank you all for your comments. I've started a poppy to make a different flower arrangement but ran out of time. I may have to wait finishing it till I am home again. But I promise to show it.

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anssmile by anssmile 14 May 2014

I'm looking forward to see it.

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by justsew 13 May 2014

Your art work is superb the top of each bowl is so realistic, very pretty.
Hugs pam.

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by carolpountney 13 May 2014

Just tooo beautiful

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by rescuer Moderator 13 May 2014

You do great work! As amazing as it looks now -- I know there is a lot of work to do before it is finished. One of the reasons I have such respect for those that manually digitize is I know the amount of time it takes to do this kind of quality work.. The design looks so much better. You can see the quality --- even now before it is stitched.
I am really looking forward to the end result.

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by buffy1 13 May 2014

great work!

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by elemausi 13 May 2014

Looks great both, but the vase with the flowers I like more

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by highlandermom 13 May 2014

Both are very nice. I love the barley but with vase like this can see more flowers. Your work intrigues me, your a great teacher. Love it.

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by CymbleneJones 13 May 2014

I, also, really like the barley with the flowers. Beautiful.

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by airyfairy 13 May 2014

I for one love the barley. Beautiful design Martine.

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by susiesembroidery 13 May 2014

Lovely designs.

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by workbecky 13 May 2014

Very nice. I like them both and agree you should keep the barley and just make another with extra flowers. They really look 3-D. Great job

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by toogie 13 May 2014

I like them both and do show when you change the barley.

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by decojo 13 May 2014

very pretty!

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by lidiad 13 May 2014

Love both of them! They are beautiful.
Hugs, Lidia

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by dragonflyer 13 May 2014

Delightful...

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by anssmile 13 May 2014

Delightful! I would keep the one with the barley, and just make a second one with all flowers?

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by jrob Moderator 13 May 2014

Wow, Martine! What a gift you have, a painter with thread.

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by basketkase 13 May 2014

Love both of these!! Your eye for color and dimension is awesome!

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by spendlove Moderator 13 May 2014

I like them both too. The bowl and vase are both nicely 3 dimensional.

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by sewilso 13 May 2014

They are very pretty!!!

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by jen15957 13 May 2014

Very pretty design and I like the fish bowl too.

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