A Day at the Zoo

These are the first five designs from A Day at the Zoo by Smith Street Designs.  Smith Street's Wildflowers quilt was the first embroidery quilt I completed.  I saw it in Arizona and immediately purchased the pattern.  I have since completed several of their quilts.  I saw A Day at the Zoo in their booth at Houston and really liked it.  There is also a collection of textured fabrics that can be used with the pattern.  Of course, I had to have that also. The pattern includes snakes and I don't think they will be part of my quilt.  We'll see what happens.

Softies

The Wednesday Embroidery Group decided to stitch softies at our meeting in February.  So I thought I better check to see if this is easy and if I would like making them.  The designs are from Momma MC Designs and they come in different sizes and formats.  These are made entirely from fleece. The teddy bears are made in one hooping and the giraffe in two hoopings. The teddy bear eyes, ears, and nose area are embroidery stitches as are the details on the giraffe. The smaller softies are about 6 1/2 inches and the larger one is about 8 1/2 inches.  The small ones can be made in a 5X7 hoop. Well, they are easy to make and highly addictive as you can see. There are many, many designs available from Etsy.