Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook is definitely a favorite of mine. I’ve had it opened on my coffee table just so I can gawk at it and think of all the pretty projects to start.
It’s filled with step-by-step guides, her favorite techniques, and beautiful patterns that will have you embroidering in no time. She includes almost every detail from the best fabrics to the exact color threads she used.
The Coloring Book Collection and patterns are perfect for getting the kids involved in the fun. While you’re following the patterns to stitch, they can use them to color in.
The Quilted Alphabet Blocks from the AlphaCute section make the prettiest keepsake for a new baby. Anna Maria gives you the complete instructions for how to make them, as well as the full alphabet pattern.
Now that you’ve heard all about this gem of a book, want to find out how to win a copy?
Check out how to enter for the chance to win a copy of Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook after the jump…
To enter for the chance to win a copy of Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook tell us about something you’d love to embroider. I’d love to embroider this quote Jacinda posted on Cross-Stitch Quote of the Day. For additional entries tweet, stumble, or share the giveaway on Facebook and leave a comment each time. Come back and leave a comment every day from now until December 18th at midnight. We will announce the winner here on Prudent Baby.
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there is a stumpwork rabbit pattern, a cute little bunny, that I’d love to embroider but I have to improve my embroidery first!
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I never embroidered before, but I’m always so jealous of people who can. As this book really gives a step-by-step explanation, it would be just awesome to win this book! Being astronomer and mother of two kids, the first thing I’d try to make would probably be a bear trying to reach a star.
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I just finished embroidering quilt squares for a quilt for my newborn son. I have been coveting this book since she announced it. I would LOVE to win a copy
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I’d love to learn how to embroider so I can embroider a quilt with an astronomical map on it, with the sun, the planets, and the stars
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I would love to add embroidery to my projects like daughter skirts, quilting, fabric pillows. I imagine once I learn and get good at embroidery I will. Want to stitch on everything.
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My daughter’s beloved baby doll has had to be retired, and I’m trying to embroider the quote from “Velveteen Rabbit” about becoming real. Then I’ll put them both into a shadow box for her room.
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I would love to embroider a bunch of towels for a friend who moved into his own apartment a few weeks ago! Maybe with quotes from some favorite songs…
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I would love to make those blocks!! Or anything that is not terribly out of date like all the patterns I have seen. I have many supplies left over from making a picture of my sister and her daughter and my mother in laws wedding picture. But I haven’t found anything that I feel is super cute besides that! I’m sure that book is full of great ideas!
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I would love t embroider the names of all our family members or their initials on our family quilt!
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I did my first piece of embroidery as gift for my husband this year and I loved it! I have been designing a family totem that I was planning to paint but it would be lovely in cross-stitch!
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When I was a teen, I did a marked-out cross-stitch of the alphabet for a baby gift. I’d love to do the “big girl” embroidery version of it on a pillow.
Or I’d embroider something from Anne of Green Gables, b/c that seems fitting.
shanahattis at gmail dot com
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I’d love to embroider an apron for my granddaughter who is getting a kitchen set from Santa this year!
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I’ve been trying to finish a family portrait cross stitch for the past year. I have a new baby, which has severely cut back on my sewing and stitching time, but I’m realizing, too, how much I really miss it!
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I’d like to embroider something similar to this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MVc4IsjBTvA/TVwqjZcG59I/AAAAAAAAAR0/DSUwD7eDf64/s1600/DSC_0001.JPG
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Her patterns of colorful flowers from the book look so fresh and modern, I would love to try my hand at them and hang them up in our home.
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My skills are rusty so I would like to begin with vintage fruit on dish towels…..from there the possibilities are endless.
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I’d like to embroider some cuteness on my little one’s t-shirt! Probably something like “Pete Seeger is my homeboy.”
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I want to make a pillow for my daughter with her monogram stitched on front.
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I’d love to try some of Sarah Janes out to sea patterns but I need to improve my stitches first. I’ve had this book on my amazon wish list for awhile now!
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I would like to finish up the butterfly on a shirt that I started about 3 years ago!
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I’d like to embroider a seashell scene onto a shawl for my momma.
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I would love to embroider animals for our nursery! It’s our first child, due in summer, and I have found old embroidery hoops that I want to hang on the wall. I have a few pins of owls, giraffes, birds, and elephants that could be fun to try. We find out the gender in a couple of weeks so, that will determine what gets embroidered. Also, now that I see the embroidered blocks above, I think I will need to make a few of those as well! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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I love embroidery, and I would love this book! I would love to embroider something for myself – something to hang on my wall. All my embroidery ends up as gifts!
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My husband and I went to Europe for our Honeymoon, and I’ve always planned on making a quilt to show all the cities we visited on or trip. I’d love to embroider a scene from each place, but 13+ cities is a HUGE undertaking. Maybe I’ll get it done before our 50th anniversary (you know, in 46 years ;D)
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I would love to embroider some home decor items – pillows, etc.
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I just started to work on a clutch with embroidered embellishments but I haven’t stitched in years, I would love to learn some new stitches to put on it!
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I would love to learn how to embroider monograms and little things to add details to my baby’s clothes. Also, there are some beautiful woven cloths on the pictures, especially the picture of the blocks. Does she weave as well as embroider?
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I’d like to embroider the skyline of my city.
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I would love to embroider a modern spin on a classic sampler. But those blocks pictured above would also be great for my baby.
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I love to embroider floral and geometric designs on t-shirts.
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I want to embroider a child boating on a quilt for my son. Pretty ambitious project though considering I’ve never embroidered OR quilted!
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I have been wanting to cross stitch something floral on a black background for a long time! This book looks like a perfect source for it!
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I want to embroider his and her towels for my new house with my fiance!
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Oh! This is my absolute FAVE past time! I would probably work on some art work for the walls in my children’s room and some for the living room!! Love, LOVE this!!!
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I’d love to embroider a pillow for our bed with a cute little quote.
Thanks for sharing such a lovely prize!
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I have been thinking more and more about dabbling into embroidery. I think my first project will be on some linen in a ring so I can hang it to show my first work. Then a bag for my little man since he loves organizing and carrying his motorcycles around.
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I love embroidered words! I always wanted to embroider letters or simple words on fabric to frame and hang in my daughter’s nursery. Maybe I’ll do it for her big girl room!
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I would love to embroider a baby blanket for the newest addition to our family.
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I started out with cross stitch, but find the whole counting thing tricky. (i know, right?) So I am learning to embroider. I would like to do some stumpwork – quails, crows, poppies and insects.
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I would love to embroidery the edges of my kids pillow cases, just like my grandmother use to do.
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I already love embroidering my daughter’s undershirts, clothes, and my pillow cases! I always just look for ideas online, but I’d LOVE to actually own a book of ideas.x
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OMG, AMH! Such cool work she does. This would be an inspiring book! I said once that the most epic needlework would be some classic pointillism painting done entirely in french knots.
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I would love to embroider growth charts for my daughters. I just need the time!
Bree
bdoody11 at yahoo dot com
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OMG! I NEED this book! I love love love it! I would definitely embroider some Bible verses for sure! Thank you!
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Working on some embroidery on our christmas stockings and tree skirt right now. I would love to get beyond the basics of what I know and this book sounds like a great resource! Love Bree’s idea of a growth chart. I could use one of those for my daughter!!
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Hmmm…maybe a tree or some birds on a pillow for my living room. I love the handmade touch in decorating.
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This book is gorgeous! I would love to embroidery on my girls’ clothing more.
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I’d love to embroider “you are my sunshine” to put in a hoop for art on my daughter’s wall!
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I would love to embroidery a Christmas pillow and some Christmas stockings.
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I’ve never embroidered before, but I have dreams of embellishing out simple cloth Advent Calendar.
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Embroidery and cross stitch makes me think of my 4-H days! I’d love to tackle a big project like a motif on a padded headboard, or something that would be of somewhat permanent as that, to leave a legacy.
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What a beautiful book! I want to embroider ornaments for my girls EVERY year! No more store bought!
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I would like to embroider and make those cross-stitch baby blocks. I’ve made baby blocks before, with applique. The cross-stitch idea gives a new twist.
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I’d love to embroider my girls birthday dresses
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I would love to embroider some of my clothes. It is so amazing some of the things that people create.
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I would love to embroider a throw pillow.
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I’d love to embroider a family tree.
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I’d love to embroider our (not so) little family tree! We have 5 kids so our branch alone is pretty full!!
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Those blocks! I must learn how to make them!
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A pillow. I don’t know why but I think that would make me really happy!
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I’d love to embroider our bedtime prayers for my kids’ rooms.
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I’d love to add embroidered details to the clothes I make myself and my daughter!
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I found online a small embroidery pattern with the words “the lovers, the dreamers and me” from the song “Rainbow Connection” by the Muppets. This is one of my 19-year-old’s favorite songs from childhood, and I would love to make it for her. Maybe after the holidays! Thanks for the chance at this lovely book!
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I would love to do some embroidery work on a quilt I’m currently working on. Maybe some flowers and Sunbonnet Sue’s. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would love someday to make embroidered Christmas stockings, but, alas, that would take tons of time that I just don’t have with two little ones in the house. Until then, I would love to tackle smaller projects like adding embroidery detail to pillow cases, PJs, towels, etc. What a lovely book!
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I would love to embroider some Christmas stockings with french knots that have a gradient of color away from the center of the letter. It makes sense in my head, but I will never know if it turns out until I find time to try it.
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I would love to embroider something to frame and put on my wall! Thank you for the fantastic giveaway!
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I would love to finish embroidering my project of the Lord’s Prayer. It is a lovely piece filled with Dakota Roses and precious lambs. With 6 kids from teenagers to toddlers; there just hasn’t been enough time…but I would love to win Anna Maria Horner’s book for more “someday projects”
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I would love to embroider a whole pillow. How cool would that be??
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I am very slowly working on my daughter’s birth sampler to match the one my mother sewed for me.
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Oh boy…there are so many things I’d like to embroider. To start, I want to embroider an embroidery hoop birth announcement for my bestie’s baby girl who is to be born in 3 weeks!
Cheers!
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I would love to embroider any toys for my daughter. They are such beautiful keepsakes!
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I would love to embroider a celtic design that I came across the other day on a pillow!
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I would love to embroider flowers on my mothers vintage pillowcases. They are old and beautiful.
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I would love to learn how to embroider anything. It has been on my to do list, the time is now!
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I’d love to embroider pillows for my nephews
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I would love to win this and make Some blocks for my newborn don to enjoy as he grows up!
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A growth chart for my daughters
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I would love to embroider a US map for my son’s room!
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I would like to embroider little details on my and my daughters clothes
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I would like to embroider a sampler with our family name in it.
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I saw a quote on Pinterest recently that I’d like to embroider: “The Harder you Work, the LUCKIER you Get.” It reminds me that success always requires hard work.
Thanks for the chance to win this fun book.
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I would love to embroider lighthouses. Does the book have any of those?
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I don’t embroider a lot but I love the idea of those blocks!
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I’d like to stitch something on the clothes I make for my girls, but I’m too afraid I’d mess it up
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cute! i remember my school project years ago (in primary school). I made a skirt with flowers’ embroidered. I’d love to make one for my girl now.
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I’d love to learn Indian embroidery so that I could make shirts and pillows and things.
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I have loved hand work for a long time and would be thrilled to win this lovely book. Thanks so much for the chance to win.
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I’m flower obsessed! I’d love to embroider anything floral, probably for my sister, who receives most things I make.
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I would like to embroider some pretty flowers as a border on a dress.
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I would love to embroider a unicorn!
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I tweeted about this giveaway on Twitter at https://twitter.com/likwan/status/279132734201409536.
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My little girl is crazy about pillows. I’d love to embroider some with a cute giraffe or birds. Or even the letters form the blocks in this post!
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I would love to emroider a play table cloth and napkins for my daughter’s dolly tea parties.
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I would love to embroider something for my baby girl’s approaching 1st birthday! Perhaps some little birds?
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All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
I find this angelican hymn very lovely plus it is one of my favorite series by James Herriot. I have some white star fabric this would look fantastic on!
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I would love to embroider on the quilts that I make for my kids and others as gifts. I have tried embroidering their names on it, but it was a disaster. Thanks!
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I would love to learn to embroider. I would do some cute tea towels for gifts. Thanks for the chance!
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I’d like to embroider some Dr. Seuss quotes for my three grandsons, so they’ll always have something I did for them specifically to match their personalities.
Thanks!
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I tweeted the giveaway here:
twitter.com/deedemonroe/status/279298881806807040
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I would love to make one of those blocks! I have one my aunt made me as a baby and I would love to make one for my sons and for my niece. What a great keepsake!
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I would love to embroider my niece’s name and frame it for her.
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I would love to embroider little “made by” and “made for” inscriptions on all my quilts that I give away.
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I’d like to embroider a realistic looking cat, but as that’s gonna be a long time to get skilled enough for that, today I am embroidery a smiley faced toaster instead
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I found some vintage cloth napkins in a lovely shade of purple at the thrift store and I really, really want to embroider some cute animals or flowers on them for my daughter’s tea set. It would make a great gift for her, but I don’t know how to embroider! I think Anna Maria’s book could make this birthday gift happen!
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I would like to embroider my dogs’ faces on pillows. Which they will probably promptly chew up. Oh dear.
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I found a little zombie pattern I want to put on some pillows for my son! This book would be awesome!
smartinez03 at live dot com
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I want to embroider a map of the U.S. with the path we took when we moved across the country, and a heart in each city.
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I just bought some glow-in-the-dark embroidery floss, so I’m dying to embroider some spacey motifs onto some jammies for my son!
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I would love to embroider curtains for our dining room. I have fine crocheted panels that my mother-in-law made for my husband many years ago that would go lovely sewn next to folk-inspired embroidery!
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I love the look of old world embroidery on throw pillows. All the intricate flowers and beautiful birds. But those pillows cost about a million dollars, so I would love to make a pair for our couch!
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I would love to embroider some cute birds on tea towels with an Emily Dickenson poem.
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Anything Christmas. I have so many Christmas ornaments that I could fill several trees. I now donate/share to friends and family.
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I want to embroider one of Sarah Jane’s lovely Children at Play scenes on a pinafore for my daughter.
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I would make an alphabet quilt so we can practice ABC’s before nap time..
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I love the look of embroidered hems on skirts – for me or for my toddler!
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I tweeted about this giveaway on Twitter at https://twitter.com/likwan/status/280217934150897664.
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My mom just gave me some dresses that I wore when I was a little girl. They were sewn for me by my great grandmother. They are so sweet and I would love to add my personal touch to them by embroidering the hems and collars. I hope that my daughter will love them as much as I did.
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I have been thinking of making some grocery bags – but who says they have to be boring? I’d love to add some embroidery!
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I would love to embroider a dress with lady bugs for my niece.
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I would like to do some hand embroidery on some quilts I am working on for my twin boys to give them the look of hand quilting without all the work! Anna Maria’s book looks absolutely gorgeous, thanks for the giveaway!
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Hi, I would love to embroider a gorgeous cushion for each of my 5 children, as every stitch ,will be stitched with love,and they will take a piece of my heart with them ,where ever life may take them!
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I have been working on designing and handpainting all the paper products for my sisters upcoming wedding. I’m currently working on ideas for the ‘welcome’ sign at the reception entrance. I would love to incorporate embroidery into the artwork. I love mixed media!
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I have fallen in love with these samplers: http://www.etsy.com/listing/95726411/original-embroidery-sampler-by-dropcloth and would love to hone my embroidery skills on one!
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I tweeted about this giveaway on Twitter at https://twitter.com/likwan/status/280945087180062720.
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I would love to embroider a set of felt letters for the Greek alphabet. We’re a bilingual family and I just made my daughter a plush alphabet set for Christmas. It would be lovely to make her a Greek set as well!
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I’ve been wanting to learn to embroider for a while to make something — maybe those blocks! — for my new baby.
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I would love to have new patterns!! Hers are just beautiful!!!
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I would love to have new patterns!! Hers are just beautiful!!! I would definitely stitch some of those blocks for my little girl!!!
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I’d love to embroider a rabbit hahaha
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I have a vintage cardigan that has seen some better days. I think a little embroidery could hide a few little stains!
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I tweeted about this giveaway on Twitter at https://twitter.com/likwan/status/281307326303055872.
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