The Happy Scanner

[beautress]

Hi, I'm beautress, aka becki, from Walker County, Texas, and am here to share a project I've worked on since September and will attach scans of them. The patterns were mail ordered and are all the same butterfly. Each was hand embroidered using different colors and sometimes, different stitches.

This is my first post, and hope that you can click on a thumbnail to enlarge it in another window. I'm not quite acquainted with how things work on this website, but will be learning-as-go.

I haven't found 2 scans yet, and am working on block #12 in spare hours. This has been going on since September, quite a change from my lifetime of quilting 2 or 3 charity quilts per week.

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[PeggyM]

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They are beautiful! Welcome from Maryland.

[Genny]

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Hello and welcome from Iowa. Your butterflies are beautiful!

[beautress]

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Thank you Peggy! My late mother and father's best friends were from Baltimore who came here back in the 50s. I loved to go over to their house. We called them Aunt Char and Uncle Skeeze, Aunt char always had ceramics cooking in her kiln, and they came out so pretty!

[auntiemern]

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Very nice. I have not embroidered in a long time.

[beautress]

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Hello and welcome from Iowa. Your butterflies are beautiful!

Thank you, Genny. I can't finish them soon enough! Finding time is the key, but I'd like to get them sashed, in a quilt top, and sent to my son in North Carolina. He loves butterflies. Then I can get back to full-steam ahead on my charity quilts. I consider it an exercise in appreciation for those wonderful people who hand embroider quilts as their passion!

[beautress]

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Very nice. I have not embroidered in a long time.

That was me before September! I have another online friend who was embroidering, then on ebay, I saw the perfect tool--a butterfly quilt, and decided to try that first so I could do fun stuff with it. Little did I know what I was getting into! LOL!!! Half a year later, I'm still working on the last block. <huff, puff, huff, puff>

[Grandma G]

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Hi Becki - your embroidery is beautiful. Welcome to the forum. I just live south of you in northern Montgomery County. Hope to see lots of your work posted here. We could probably learn a thing or two from you!!

[beautress]

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Hi Becki - your embroidery is beautiful. Welcome to the forum. I just live south of you in northern Montgomery County. Hope to see lots of your work posted here. We could probably learn a thing or two from you!!

Thanks for the heads-up, Grandma G! I really hadn't thought about the time expended on this one project until I posted here, so I learned something from you all just for setting up such a neat place for quilters to come. I'm thrilled one so close showed up here.

[Jean Sewing Machine]

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These are beautiful! I'm quite fond of butterflies myself, having completed two butterfly projects lately. Your project will be lovely when completed.

[easyquilts]

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You do gorgeous work... Welcome from Ohio.

[Lynn Ramsey]

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They are all Beautiful, your work in wonderful.

[tamsterg7]

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Those are gorgeous, and will make a lovely quilt!

[SallyO'Sews]

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Welcome from Connecticut! Your butterflies are beautiful.

[beautress]

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These are beautiful! I'm quite fond of butterflies myself, having completed two butterfly projects lately. Your project will be lovely when completed.

Thanks, Jean. I hope you will post your butterfly pictures or link to them. I'm so used to doing things and getting them done in under a week, that this embroidery project has dragged on too long, and I'm anxious to move on. I'll review and see if I can find one of my appliqued butterflies or so. There was this 30s butterfly quilt that I copied with a pair of scissors using an old manila folder for a template. It was red and white. No telling where it was filed. There was another more recent, as well a couple of years ago. Be back in a minute.

Well, I did find the quilt one of my girlfriends took a picture of, and it is like a 30s butterflies, but I couldn't find my old template which is in a box somewhere after our move from Wyoming to Texas a few years back, so I had to cut a new one. The wings seem squarer than the red and white one, somehow.

Will have to find the photograph of the red and white one sometime this week. It's around somewhere, hopefully.

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