Hello Friend,
Happy Friday! Grab your coffee, your seam ripper (you know, just in case), and settle in—because this week’s embroidery class gave us a holiday giggle that must be shared.
So there we were, blissfully stitching away in our machine embroidery class, making our own holiday cards. If you’ve never embroidered on cardstock, let me tell you—it’s ridiculously fun. And the process is simple:
Placement stitch for the card
Tack down your appliqué
Add decorative stitching
Embellish until your heart is merry and bright
Easy-peasy… in theory.
Enter one of our sweet students, who was cruising along like a pro.
Placement stitch? ✔️
Fabric for appliqué? ✔️
Back up to stitch-out and tack it down? ✔️
And then suddenly—
“Wait! Donna! What did I do wrong?!”
I walk over, take one look, and ask the important, life-altering question:
“Well… is the card under the fabric?”
😅
Friends… there was no card under that fabric. Not even a little corner. Just a perfectly tacked-down square of fabric with a cute little evergreen tree stitched right on it… floating in space like a lost quilt block without a purpose.
It was supposed to be a Christmas card.
It is now… a mystery orphan block of holiday cheer.
We did a do-over (with actual cardstock this time!), but that little appliquéd evergreen? It lives on. I’m not sure what she’s going to do with it—a coaster? A tag? A warning label? A reminder to always check what’s under your hoop?
But hey… every class needs a story, and this one is getting gold-stitched into the memory book.
🎄✨ May all your cards have cardstock under them this weekend.
And if they don’t… well, you’ve just invented a new project.
Happy stitching,
Donna
