my first real embroidery project

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so i work at Value Village aka Savers which is a large thrift store chain in the USA, Canada and Australia. anyway this monday is our big 50% off sale (in canada anyway...) and we have to dress up 1950's style. my friend at work found this skirt for herself but it was just plain pink so i said i would sew a poodle on it for her. i ended up deciding to embroider it instead and im really happy with the results! it only took about 3 hours and i think it looks fab.



so i printed a picture off the internet and traced it onto the skirt with a pencil. and started to ebroider with rasberry thread.


here's the finished product which obviously needs some ironing


poodle love


a close up of my stitches, a little blurry and my stitches arent the most even but hey, it does the trick.



now i just have to figure out my costume for next week!