Helen and a customer are both making height charts for grandchildren, but wondered how to do the numbers - and Helen remembered that I have an embroidery machine.
We had a chat about how best the numbered could be continuous, given that I can only embroider a maximum of 18cm at a time, but she was happy to join sections together, so while Valerie's dragonflies and flowers were stitching I designed these, and then stitched them:
10cm to 180 cm
With the fives marked, and the line starting and finishing accurately
(you can see the measurements are correct!)
If anyone else wants to make a height chart, I'm happy to stitch another set of mearusing lines, metric or imperial!
While I was at Helen's I also bought some cream on cream yardage, so have now been able to border and bind the first of the two tessellated stars: just about two foot of hand sewing to finish then it's done!!!!
clever as always!
ReplyDeleteAren't you a handy person to have calling Benta :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your height chart embroidery. Sadly, I have no small people to measure at the moment :)
ReplyDeleteI'm suspecting you have frequent flyer miles if she knew she didn't have to phone you to get you to pop round ;o)
ReplyDeleteI do like your stars the cream really makes them stand out!
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