First and this has nothing to do with embroidery, but I’d like to introduce you to chapstick man and tomato man (a double cherry tomato). Chapstick man lives on my desk and tomato man is just a visitor who is already gone now. Chapstick man is ever-present and is dependably clutching a tube of chap stick. They are standing on my desk on the edge of the embroidered piece that I am about to show you.
I can vividly remember when John drew this picture. We were sitting together on his little red couch in his room and he had his little yellow lap table over his little legs. He was 3 at the time and he was drawing and telling me all about his drawings. He drew several pictures, all of them with family members. He drew a nice one of his paternal grandparents. A few months later, I decided to trace the image onto cotton and outline it in the colors he used with embroidery thread. Then I bordered it with two rows of “markers” and two long “pencils” on the side. After that, I quilted it with echo lines.
The image below shows the children around the time the picture was drawn, the red couch and the yellow lap table. They are playing in the living room (John called the room, “lemming loom”), and they are having a great time as usual.
Very cute! I always planned to do that with some of my kids’ drawings, but so far I haven’t gotten around to it. 😕
“Lemming room” 😆 😆
What a keepsake!
Poor tomato man. 😆
Boy, *green with envy*, I never thought of that,
It is a treasure Donna, as I’m sure you know. I do have things that my first born son Darius cross stitched though. I taught him since he saw his older sisters doing so and wanted to learn. I should dig them out one day and scan them to show off.
I love the quilt. That is so cute!
Your lemming loom looks like ours. I like to see how the kids get creative with their surroundings. 😆
🙂 Hello! I hope this finds you doing well and trying to stay cool in our little heatwave here.
You are so creative! I love your beautiful, priceless quilt.
Hugs, Robin
The horse may have been trained to “ground tie”. Our horses are, we tie them out in the yard to graze using those spiral things for dogs, that way you can just drop the reigns when you need to and they do wander far — of course you cant leave them for too long. When I was a teen back in the `80s we would ride in a local National Battlefeild, there was a McD`s just past the boundary, we would actually “ride” through the drive through then go back to the park to picnic! We would also go to the Taco Bell, but they did not have a drive through.
Your soil must be a lot better than our Virginia clay…I love looking at peoples gardens. I like that you take the pictures to show how your garden is growing.
I am hoping to get Randy to agree to doing some terrace gardening. That would be the only way we could do it in our back yard.
You must weed that garden an awful lot to keep it so clean….
Thank You Lisa!
Yes, it is a fun store to browse around it. I`ve bought a lot of things from it over the past 30 years.
Thank you Tressa.
Hello Michele, I use word processors and spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel or Open Office.