Sally's Bread Cloth

[HomekeepingGran]

My friend Sally is moving over 500 miles away and I wanted to give her something handmade. This is a flour sack bread cloth or towel from the American Chair Store which I embroidered. The design is straight from Mary Corbet's blog, Needle 'n Thread, and is the free pattern she offered this spring for an Easter breadcloth. (Search April if you want a copy of the design.) In the first picture you can see one of Sally's cups which I asked to borrow to check my colors. My colors are not an exact match but still, I am pleased. All threads are DMC cotton embroidery thread.

 

(The poor cup never made it home in one piece. After I finished with it I carefully wrapped it and bagged it in a heavy paper sack. Her husband dropped it on the concrete and smashed it to bits. So glad I wasn't the one who broke it!)

 

 

 

[cindylou4516]

Beautiful your friend will love it and think of you when she looks at it. She probably will just put it out for show too pretty to use.

[Granny Square]

Oh my goodness, that is wonderful What a lucky friend!

[ShilohsNamma]

Very pretty. Your friend will remember you always.

[RusticOkie]

That is very beautiful. I'm sure she appreciates it very much. So sad to hear about the cup, but I'm also glad it was the hubby and not you! lol

[wiz3283]

Beautiful!

[Startigerlily]

Truly beautiful! Your friend will treasure it.

[amdm]

Very beautiful. I love dainty embroidery. What a relief it was her husband who broke the cup and not you, or the gift would have been ruined for you.

[Apak]

Beautiful and delicate - wonderful gift!

[cat3crazy]

You did a really good job embroidering that bread cloth. It's gorgeous!

[HomekeepingGran]

Thank you, everyone! Now I am wishing I had a really smashing Autumn pattern to start a bread cloth for me. I love to decorate for fall (tomorrow is Sept. 1 — my personal decoration day) and I will pull out my fall dinner napkins and salt and pepper shakers and put away the summer ones.

 

[Aside: some years ago we bought plain white dishes and I change out my cloth homemade/handmade dinner napkins for the seasons. It's a cheap way to totally change the looks of a table!]

[Momcrochets]

That is gorgeous, my friend!! Wonderful work...I know your friend will love it.

[Pyroteca]

Your embroidery is just beautiful! I am sure that your friend will love her bread cloth. I envy you your patience...I am afraid I am not very patient when it comes to embroidery. Yours is really gorgeous.

[solaceinmusic]

That turned out really pretty =0)

 

If you do cross stitch, Michaels has a pattern for a fall breadcover

 

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=e00284&categoryid=30

[HomekeepingGran]

I can "do" cross stitch but don't particularly enjoy it. I dislike counting all the little squares although I have finished a few small pieces of it. I keep seeing pretty cross stitch patterns for fall but not what I am looking for, which is surface embroidery. I sort of started a design of my own but it isn't finished and I am not convinced it's good enough, if you know what I mean, plus I think the motifs are not sized correctly to each other although that could be changed. Actually, I'm considering doing another of these like Sally's and choosing different stitches used to practice something else and have a new look. Just not sure yet.

 

And now that I think about it I have a cross stitch booklet with a sunflower/fall theme. Maybe I could snag some ideas from it.

[vonnie]

Wow that is fantastic, I love it, looks like lots of work.......TFS

[pineapplequeen]

Just beautiful!!