Comment from Rachel
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:29 am

Wonderful! Her patterns are so fresh and original!

Comment from Rachel
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:33 am

For the contest: I’ve started embroidering in a free-form style. Here is a link to one of my projects: http://cornflowerbluestudio.blogspot.com/2008/04/macro-1730-finished-project.html

Comment from Carol
Time: April 29, 2008, 7:37 am

I took pictures of the 4 places my daughter lived while in college, traced those onto paper and made an iron on transfer from that which I put on linen-along with her school name, her name, and the date of her graduation. I am finishing it now and will have it framed for her. I have lots of Jennie Hart’s patterns, etc . . and I love her unique patterns.

Comment from jen
Time: April 29, 2008, 8:17 am

I just love Sublime Stitching! The patterns are so orginal and modern.

Comment from ruth
Time: April 29, 2008, 8:39 am

These delightful and unique designs are so attractive and special. I have never seen anything this creative. When I was younger my sister and I would embroider scenic vistas onto tablecloths and matching napkins. They were colorful and appealing but nothing in this league.

Comment from Catherine
Time: April 29, 2008, 8:39 am

Okay, get ready to throw tomatoes at me. I’ve only embroidered one thing in my life and I didn’t even finish. My aunt gave me a Thanksgiving table runner project. The embroidery was fun, but the project was so uninspiring.

I look forward to this podcast, though. I already have an embroidery idea brewing and want to listen to the master before I begin. :)

Comment from Lisa
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:07 am

Sublime Stitching was completely my motivation for starting to embroider, accessible instructions, amazing patterns, and now I am hooked. My husband and I are now collaborating on projects of patterns he draws and I embroider. A carmen miranda handbag is in the works. Thanks Jenny!

Comment from Turtle
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:28 am

Love her designs! Funky retro and classic all at once! Not so wild maybe but put 8 -13 year old girl scouts in a room with hoops, needles and thread…we’re talking (english was not the first language for most of these girls, and no two girls shared the first language) blood sweat and tears..and a few who literally stitched themselves to their project! With much practice a few got the hang of it and enjoyed stitching!

Comment from Sequana
Time: April 29, 2008, 10:32 am

Great to see some good modern designs.

Comment from kelli
Time: April 29, 2008, 10:47 am

Hmm. Wildest? I embroidered a wedding cake hat for a bachelorette party. It had three layers and white on white decorations.

Comment from RobynE
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:11 am

Craziest embroidery adventure for me is still ongoing… I started stitching Andrea Zuill’s Love Bear. He is appx 4″ by 6″. After I stitched the outlines, I decided he didn’t look bear-y enough. So I started to fill him in with French knots. I have done about a gazillion knots and I’m still not done. His bear suit now looks wonderfully woolly but I may have gone permanently cross-eyed.

Comment from Heather
Time: April 29, 2008, 12:43 pm

Jenny Hart’s designs rekindled my love of embroidery. I use to do boring old medieval designs which were beautiful but ..Yawn.. really dull. Now I am only limited by my imagination!

I don’t really have an out there project per se I am always doing something off Kilter. Usually using Jenny’s patterns. I also alter cutesy old fashion patterns to be a little more naughty. I love to see the look on people’s faces when I do. :) Thanks Jenny for the inspiration!

Comment from Dawn
Time: April 29, 2008, 12:53 pm

I decided that I’m going to do an embroidery for my bathroom to encourage me to floss! “FLOSS or your teeth are LOST” complete with a smile that has a few teeth missing. Might tweak the saying….but it gets the point across….

Comment from Josie
Time: April 29, 2008, 2:07 pm

I don’t know if I can beat the FLOSS story and mine isn’t wild…more emotional and personal. My friends and I have been working on a quilt made from the clothes of my baby daughter who passed away. I’ve begun to embroider the quilt with drawings from my son and step-daughter, birds, butterflies and other images of beauty that remind me of the beautiful soul I lost.

Can’t wait to hear the podcast…I heart Jenny Hart

Comment from Molly
Time: April 29, 2008, 2:34 pm

My wildest embroidery experience …. hmmmmm…. that’s a tough one! I’d have to say that the wildest is a pair of pillowcases I made that were all lazy daisy flowers. The pillowcases were a cotton/polyester blend that were TOUGH! My fingers were a bleeding mess after all that jabbing, jabbing, jabbing! I wore a leather finger when I’d work on it hat got all my kids howling. I don’t know why that tickled them so much. Not too wild but at it was very painful!

Comment from Erin
Time: April 29, 2008, 3:18 pm

I love Jenny Hart! I haven’t done anything crafty in years and tried embroidering a few designs 8 weeks ago to fight the winter blues and now I’m hooked!

Comment from elizabeth
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:08 pm

I started doing embroidery when I was very young – mostly kits. But in high school I had a wonderful teacher who let me do embroidery as a art project. Nothing wild – just this crazy, funny cat. I used every stitch I could think of and lots of different yarns. I made it into a pillow for my Mom. I think she still has it. Now I have a daughter of my own, she has asked to learn embroidery and I plan to start some projects with her this summer. I want to use her own drawings and mine to create our own patterns. She wants to make a monster for her brother, which I think is super cool.
I made my daughter an art bag from an old pair of jeans. I did a little embroidery on it – absolutely killed my fingers. BUT it was so worth the lost of blood for the look on her face when she received it for her birthday last year.
By the way, Jennifer, the quilt is looking so beautiful. That is something your daughter will treasure forever.
Thanks for the great site. ROCK ON!

Comment from Libby
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:13 pm

The wildest I have ever been is working on a four generation pillowcase. Doesn’t seem too daring. Looks like I have something to look forward to. How wild can you get with embroidery?

Comment from Thien-Kim
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:55 pm

Thanks for the great interview with Jenny. My wildest embroidering adventure wasn’t so whiled. I had to drive 30 minutes to find wooden embroidery hoops! I guess I’m just old school. No plastic ones for me.

Comment from Juliann
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:59 am

I’ve not actually completed any of my projects but I have planned or started a Victorian-inspired mourning piece with seed pearls, Elizabethan blackwork for re-enacting gear, and just a general redo of some very boring jeans inspired by the Muppetmobile’s rainbow connection :)

Comment from Michele
Time: April 30, 2008, 8:37 am

My embroidery experience isn’t all that great…I’ve done a few pillows and this past Christmas I stitched each person’s name on some quilted stockings that I made.

Comment from tpanderson
Time: April 30, 2008, 8:48 am

wildest embroidery moment was this past fall semester when 25 teenagers learned to embroider using Sublime Stitching patterns in my Textiles class. I was expecting some complaining….but they LOVED the patterns and took to the different stitches like fish to water. We had lots of fun, but they also learned how to follow written directions, work together, and keep trying when it’s not perfect the first time! Sewing can teach great life/work skills!

Comment from Tara
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:50 am

No crazy embroidery stories..yet! I have some ridiculous ideas planned, considering I’m a newbie! I want to handdye embroidery floss; transfer my little brother’s drawings onto a t-shirt; embroidery all my boring button-downs and plain skirts.
And here’s my only completed project so far:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/staralee/944763002/

Comment from Average Jane Crafter
Time: April 30, 2008, 3:31 pm

Thanks so much for this interview! As I mentioned on my blog, an interview with Jenny Hart is always a great lesson in inspiration and business savvy – she’s the best!

As for my wildest embroidery adventure, I’d have to say it would be my Zombie Jitterbug Girl. I had the wild idea to do it and stitched it up, and almost didn’t post it because I wasn’t sure if people would get my sense of humor. Next thing you know, it’s on BoingBoing. It was hilarious!

Comment from Rosa
Time: April 30, 2008, 3:59 pm

I am just now getting back into emboidery after not having done it since 5th grade. I guess what I’m doing now is wild considering that all I had done before were bunnies and deer. I’m embroidering brass knckles and the words “Bad Knit Girls” (a Ravelry group) that will eventually be a pillow or a wall hanging. I got a sweet hot pink embroidery hoop and a big bag of floss so I am way excited and I keep admiring the Sublime Stitching patterns.

Comment from Anne
Time: April 30, 2008, 4:04 pm

The most unusual item I embroidered was a family crest (several years ago) for my then boyfriend. I spent hours researching the crest, then hand embroidered the entire crest on a blue cloth and framed it. When I gave it to him, he then proceeded to tell me his last name was changed when his grandparents came over to Ellis Island and the crest was not even the right one!

Comment from samantha
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:51 pm

So pleased to hear this! I’m been tinkering with the idea to turn some of my illustrations into stitch patterns. Thank you so much for the inspirational push!

:)
~Sam

Comment from rachel
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:44 pm

I’m doing my first embroidery project now, inspired in large part by soulemama. But my children aren’t quite up to the line drawings I could embroider yet (big scribbles that look like they would take a lot of thread are where we are) so I decided to do something with their handprints. I have a set of the 3-year-old’s facing out with the 22-month-old’s above them. Then I’m stitching a butterfly body between, with the hands as butterfly wings. I hope to finish it to send it in time for my grandmother’s 95th birthday which also coincides with mother’s day. If I finish it as hoped, as a little butterfly pillow, it will be my second sewing machine project.

Seems a little crazy, what with lots of work and lots of littles, but I can really see the appeal of this colorful art. A delicious change from knitting…so perfect for the lightness of spring!

oh yeah…i love your podcasts!! you go, girl!

Comment from Serenknitity
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:25 am

Hi there, I loved this episode, even though I’m more of a knitter. In my twenties, to aid recovery of a broken heart, I embroidered a huge cushion, sectioned into squares, and in the squares were my favourite things (trees in blossom, black cats, the moon, astrological symbols – OK, OK, I was in my twenties). It’s now in my son’s room covered in his toys and busting at the seams, but whenever I see it I’m reminded that broken hearts do mend eventually.

Comment from Susan Cahill
Time: May 1, 2008, 5:53 am

My ex-inlaws owned a motel. I made them a cross stitched map of the US with all the capitols and other significant symbols for each state and I added an arrow and “You are Here” pointing to where the motel was. It hung in the lobby until they sold the motel.

Comment from Erica H
Time: May 1, 2008, 11:08 am

I’m currently close to finishing my first embroidery project – a series of seven flour sack towels with the iron-on patterns for days of the week and clumsy Dutch Girls. I inherited the patterns a few months ago when my Great Grandma passed away – I’ll always my Dutch grandma though these amazing vintage patterns.

I cant wait to get started on my next project – hopefully with some groovy Sublime Stitching patterns!

Comment from Michelle
Time: May 1, 2008, 12:14 pm

I love embroidering my daughter’s drawings, and I also have fun with my Embroidered Buttons Swaps. I don’t know how “wild” it is, but embroidery is certainly never boring! Here’s a link to my Flickr! embroidery set for anyone who’s interested:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58949955@N00/sets/72157603328699203/

Comment from Jackie Z
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:03 pm

I love Jenny’s contemporary embroidery style. I embroidered a wacky sheep on a knitting bag.

Comment from Sally B
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:09 pm

Ok, I’m a newbie at the whole embroidery thing, so I really don’t have any crazy stories yet…. but I’m sure I will before it’s over with! I bought your book not long ago, and I love it and am having a great time with it!

Comment from Sonni
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:59 pm

I’m a newbie too so I don’t have any wild and crazy stories about embroidery. I do love Sublime Stitching and was turned onto embroidery through a monthly craft night get together with friends. I had bought my own Sublime Stitching Kit and have been practicing ever since.

Comment from Teresa
Time: May 1, 2008, 3:36 pm

I’m also just starting embroidering and don’t have any good stories yet. I bought the Sublime Stitching book and have started working on the practice page. I love the patterns in the book. Thanks Jennifer for the great podcast and Jenny for the wonderful designs.

Comment from Dawn
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:53 pm

I had not embroidered for a few years when it came over me to do a design on a bib for a friend that was having her first kid. The friend’s SO is a park ranger so I free handed JR Ranger a tree and a squirrel on the bib. I wish I had pictures of it as for being ffree handed it actually came out pretty well – you could even tell the squirrel was a squirrel.

Comment from Sandy
Time: May 1, 2008, 6:58 pm

I made a small pile of napkins to embroider on a while back but have only done a cup design on one so far. My mom however embroidered a bok choy for me when she was visiting a couple of weeks ago.

Comment from liz
Time: May 1, 2008, 10:58 pm

wildest embroidery adventure? hmm. . . i’m not sure my life is “wild” enough to have an embroidery adventure ; )

sublime stitching is my first embroidery book. i love the fun design and ideas!

thanks for the giveaway!

Comment from Wendy Marijnissen
Time: May 1, 2008, 11:45 pm

Love Jenny’s work and the way she put embroidery back on the map.
I’m still doing cross stitch mostly, but because of her work, I’m now going to venture out to other embroidery projects.
Hope to win the amazing goodies in the giveaway.
Thanks and way the go Jenny and Craftsanity!
Wendy

Comment from Mia
Time: May 2, 2008, 1:45 am

Wow! I just finished listening to the podcast, and it’s fantastic to learn so much about Jenny (& your rock pants!).

I’m still pretty new to embroidery, in fact I think I’ve only finished 3 things, but I think I’d have to say my “wildest” embroidery adventure would be embroidering Max dressed up like a “Wild Thing” for my own wild little boy on one of his t-shirts!

Comment from oami
Time: May 2, 2008, 7:18 am

I guess it’s not really wild, more a little morbid, but the embroidery I’m most proud of is a portrait of my beloved dog who passed away a few months ago. She’s sleeping in a field of flowers, on a muslin ground.
My mother taught me to embroider when I was a little girl. She was a very accomplished needlewoman, and worked on Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party – the Susan B. Anthony runner. I was looking through her copy of the book that accompanied the exhibit recently and found her diary and pictures of her working there…very juicy!
I loved hearing Jenny’s interview, I’ve been a fan of her work for awhile.

Comment from Kari
Time: May 2, 2008, 7:31 am

I’ve been slowly delving into embroidery with Jenny’s Stitch-It Kit. I embroidered an olive on a onesie for my pal’s baby girl “Olive”. Not too wild, I realize, but it turned out cute. I just visited Austin for the 1st time and loved it! I would love to visit again and attend a Jenny Hart workshop.

Comment from Alison
Time: May 2, 2008, 7:33 am

Wildest embroidery adventure, eh? Does one that involves 3 mischievous cats count?

I downloaded the Bear and Bunny Patterns from Wee Wonderfuls to make little dolls for a friend that just became a Mommy. I figured some hand embroidered dolls would be great for the baby! So, I spent several hours stitching (I’m a bit slow!), pulled out my greatly neglected sewing machine, stuffed the dolls with stuffing, and as I was stitching the Bunny shut, the thread got a knot that wouldn’t quit. I set it aside for the night, tucking my embroidered babies next to the sewing machine.

The next morning, my maternal instinct must have kicked in, as I stumbled up the stairs, eyes half-open, the first thing I noticed was the missing dolls. The bunny was under the chair I had been sitting on…needle still hanging on the now extremely tangled thread. But where was the bear?

I looked everywhere and finally found him, face-down, in a little play house for my 3 kitties. He had some good sized claw marks all over him, and some embroidery floss pulled through to the front of the fabric. I was so sad for him! Then I got really angry…those D@mn cats!!!

After I cooled down for a couple hours I realized these dolls would become new kitty toys. Obviously they liked them, so I switched the stuffing for crinkly plastic shopping bags and sprayed them with a catnip spray. Walaa! New kitty toys.

Now I need to start embroidering NEW dolls for my friend…

Comment from Mel
Time: May 2, 2008, 8:40 am

My wildest embroidery adventure is not even being able to get started. My plan was to teach myself to knit, then crochet, followed by embroidery. Now I’m doing a knitting project that just doesn’t want to be finished. I’m ready to learn more crafts but I’m still in square one.

Comment from debbie
Time: May 2, 2008, 9:13 am

I love freestyle embroidery. Here’s an embroidered mini-quilt, inspired by prayer rugs and Susan Shie’s work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10182003@N07/840151152/

Really looking forward to listening to the interview with Jenny!

Comment from Elisabeth
Time: May 2, 2008, 9:46 am

I have yet to do much more stitching than sewing buttons back on to a jacket, but I decided last week that I really want to learn to embroider and I ordered the group pack from Sublime Stitching for me and my friends to try when we’re taking a break from writing our dissertations. I do not have, therefore, a legitimate embroidery adventure but I am positive that this will become one! Also, I sit on the subway during my commute to school listening to craftsanity and visualizing embroidery. If that isn’t an adventure, I don’t know what is!

Comment from Jessica Egmont
Time: May 2, 2008, 11:40 am

I have the basics down but have a hard time finding the time and neat ways to practice new stitches. My next project I think will be a sampler of some kind or stitching some more of my daughters drawings to frame, give as gifts or create a larger project like a quilt…..if I could only ask for more practice time!!!

Comment from Kyla
Time: May 2, 2008, 1:15 pm

What a great show!

Most of my embroidery is not traditional. I first learned to embroider was on a painted soft sculpture. I played with color, texture and shape. I let the paint tell me what to stitch. I learned a lot, like leaving extra fabric for the hoop.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/peachymanaangel/Art/DSCF0033.jpg
http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/peachymanaangel/Art/?action=view&current=DSCF0022.jpg this piece is part of a larger sculpture here
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/peachymanaangel/Art/P1000020.jpg
These pieces are killer on the hands and fingers.

At the moment my big embroidery project is a wrist cuff . . . that looks like the atomical wrist. ^_^ Ha. It has been a blast to make, luckily my Mom is a stitched and an OR nurse. Some days I would come home and ask ” Does this thread look like muscle or bone? ” I even made some carpel bone buttons out of polymer clay.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/peachymanaangel/Art/DSCF0037.jpg

Jenny, thank you for helping pave the way for modern embroidery.

Comment from Laure
Time: May 2, 2008, 3:37 pm

I am just getting back into embroidery after a long spell of no stitching. The most unusual material that I have embroidered was in the 70′s when stitching on black satin was very popular. After listening to the interview, I had lots of crazy stitching ideas. Thanks for the inspiration!

Comment from Em
Time: May 2, 2008, 8:15 pm

As a girl I took stitchery as a summer camp activity. I designed and embroidered a small pair of cutoff shorts on piece of aida cloth. Cut off shorts were really cool then, so I thought the image of them would be cool… but it was a little lame with hindsight.

Comment from Carrie
Time: May 2, 2008, 9:57 pm

My wildest adventure has yet to happen — I have never embroidered a thing! But I really want to. I am currently obsessing over what to try first.

Comment from Beth
Time: May 3, 2008, 9:02 am

I found a beige Jcrew sweater at the thrift that had beige flowers embroidered on it. I then filled in the flowers with colored embroidered and added blanket stitch to the hem and cuffs. I’ve now discovered it has a few holes. I saw felt “moth” patches in a museum store in London and am thinking of doing something similar.

My most recent embroidery project was finishing a vintage crewel piece. I found it in a box, partially completed and felt it was time for it to be finished.

Comment from Xanthe
Time: May 3, 2008, 9:54 am

The night before Valentines Day I embroidered for the first time. My daughter (age 10) wanted a heart sewn on a Halloween skeleton shirt she has. Emma didn’t want a cute heart, she wanted an anatomical heart! I sketched out a simple design, looked up a few how-to stitch websites, and voila, a cool shirt! Not a bad first attempt.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36318055@N00/2264447873/

Great interview! Now I want embroider some of my kids designs *grins*

Comment from Regina
Time: May 3, 2008, 3:22 pm

I guess the wildest thing that I’ve ever embroidered were some linen sachets for my sister’s bridal shower.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50003039@N00/212653662/

I don’t embroider all that much, but Jenny Hart certainly inspires me to do more.

Great interview!!

Comment from Tina
Time: May 3, 2008, 6:26 pm

I have only embroidered with traditional materials but I did take a beginner embroidery class last year at Pioneer Farms, which I thought was exciting. It’s a living history farm here in north Austin where you can visit or take classes in old farmhouses situated on a town square circa 1850′s Texas. They also have other fiber arts classes and dutch oven classes as well as iron works classes. The docents are dressed for the period, over all a really great experience.

Comment from jen
Time: May 3, 2008, 8:29 pm

i’m starting my first embroidering project right now…doing a pattern from wee wonderfuls…wish me luck!

Comment from L-A
Time: May 3, 2008, 9:17 pm

I’m still new at embroidery. I’ve only taught myself how in the past year and part of my reason for learning was so I could use the Sublime Stitching patterns I had purchased (I liked them so much that I bought them even though I didn’t know how to embroider). I’m starting my first big project – it was an idea I found on Martha Stewart.com to have guests sign a quilt square and make a quilt as the guestbook for a friend’s baby shower. I’m now embroidering the signatures on the squares. We thought it would make a great gift/guestbook, especially as my friends are moving to another city later this month (so I better get stitching!).

p.s. I loved the comment from oami about her mom working on Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party – that is so awesome!

Comment from L-A
Time: May 3, 2008, 9:22 pm

oh dear – I forgot to mention the wilder part of my embroidery project (it’s actually quite tame): since I’m sort of working on a deadline to finish my project, I had brought it with me on a flight from Los Angeles to Nova Scotia. I had no problems going through security in LA, but after clearing customs in Toronto, my embroidery scissors were confiscated! Apparently the US and Canada have different rules about scissors on planes. I was told I keep them if I checked in my carry on bag, but I really didn’t want to go through the security line again (and they were not expensive scissors).

Comment from Patty
Time: May 3, 2008, 10:20 pm

My wildest embroidery adventure? Um, once when I was practicing some stitches, I outlined a puppy in several different colors and skipped all the French knots. (I am SO boring.)

Comment from Samantha
Time: May 4, 2008, 5:33 am

I have never actually started any embroidery but have been admiring so much of it recently and wondering where to start. Coincidentally, I even picked up a Sublime book today in Borders and fell in love with the designs. I need a push in the right to get started. I was even thinking it would be a great thing to teach my students, especially during those wet, wintery lunchtimes.

Comment from Cindy Moore
Time: May 4, 2008, 8:15 am

I started embroidering before I could remember and have done so off and on all through my life. My last big embroidery endeavor took place 12 years ago. My father passed away the night before my mother was to start radiation treatments for colon cancer. A month later my first granddaughter was born and had to be transported to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville due to possible complications.

The company my husband worked for made baby clothes and had given us all sizes of t-shirts, onesies, gowns, overalls, and sleepers. Our granddaughter was fine and came home just before I had to go 500 miles away to stay with my mother in the hospital while she had surgery for the colon cancer. I spent a week with her night and day, sleeping in a recliner at night, running the stairs to stay fit every morning and embroidering all those little baby clothes. I must have embroidered over 30 articles of clothing during the 2 weeks I was with my mother.
My mother is fine and a cancer survivor. My 12-year-old granddaughter is extremely healthy fast pitching softball, knitting and crocheting. I will always miss my father but putting all those stitches in those tiny clothes helped me through the most difficult time of my life.
I don’t do much embroidery now. I’m in a frantic knitting phase, but I know I can always go back to it if I need to.

Comment from Beth
Time: May 4, 2008, 1:27 pm

I love handwork and once embellished a denim jacket with hearts made up solely of French knots. Each one took “forever,” but I LOVED the look + texture of the embroidery.

Comment from sheilacjones
Time: May 5, 2008, 3:42 am

How amazing to find this interview with Jenny Hart. I have been having a craving to do embroidery again after many years (nearly 20 in fact!!) and was looking at her books on amazon. I took up a correspondence embroidery class (before the internet was fully up and running) and amazed myself at things I created from patterns I drew, ink blots I made etc etc. I only found the package last weekend and now I am desparate to start something again.

Comment from Kathleen Fisher
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:54 am

I have a terrible confession … I’ve only ever stitched one thing and that was lights on Christmas cards using brightly coloured electrical wire. Obviously, being metal, the stitches had to be simple, but it was fun. Not that I don’t buy stitching kits. In fact, I buy vintage ones in charity shops all the time and give them to an embroidery-mad friend. However, after listening to Jenny Hart, I think I’ll be keep a couple for myself from now on!

Comment from Jessica
Time: May 5, 2008, 11:04 am

At first I was all bummed because I couldn’t think of any “wild and/or crazy” embroidery projects I’d done…* and then I remembered a house warming/birthday present I made for my best friend: tea towels embroidered with images from an illustrated [i.e., drawn] pocket-sized Kama Sutra. So, I guess that qualifies as fairly wild, no?

*It’s actually been some time since I’ve done any stitching, but this episode has inspired me to dig up my hoop and floss, yay!

Comment from bethie
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:29 pm

I don’t have a “wildest” experience, but Jenny’s simple yet awesome designs are completely inspiring. I love how she has revived embroidery and made it cool for a whole new generation. So many great “homey” things our moms and other relatives have done are a dying art. Long live embroidery! I have used Jenny’s designs in the past for Christmas gifts. It’s great to give homemade gifts.

Comment from ellie
Time: May 5, 2008, 8:35 pm

Nothing too wild, but here are my pants from high school when I first learned – http://deceptivelypackaged.typepad.com/deceptively_packaged/2008/03/born-crafter.html

Comment from Annie OG
Time: May 5, 2008, 8:49 pm

My big sister taught me how to embroider using the old iron on embroidery patterns of dogs in baskets, kittens doing the laundry, etc. Later as a hippie chick I embroidered my “old man’s” blue work shirts. Until I heard this interview I had never really thought about the fact that I have embroidered my way through life!

Comment from coffeechris
Time: May 6, 2008, 8:38 am

I love SubLime Stitching – the patterns are awesome – would love to win. My wildest was staying up late to design and finish a toothfairy pillow for my son, after he lost his first tooth -

Comment from Dawn
Time: May 6, 2008, 1:21 pm

I am so happy with everything I’ve gotten from Sublime Stitching. Once I get better I would love to embroider on leopard fur fabric and make my own version of the Velvet paintings.

i really hope i win!!

Comment from Heather
Time: May 6, 2008, 6:41 pm

I am new to your podcasts and have fallen in love wit them. Last thing I stitched was a stuffed horses mouth on one of my daughters animals. Not wild and crazy but that was the last thing. My 3 year old loves to sew, its not perfect but she is proud and I hope she keeps it up.
THANK YOU!!!
this is a nice escape for a stay home mom of 2 at the end of the day ;)

Comment from karen
Time: May 7, 2008, 10:04 am

I don’t really have a wild story! I keep saving shirts and bags etc to embellish, and I hoard all the neat patterns I can find (a lot of Jenny’s older patterns are included in that hoard!), but I haven’t gotten up the nerve to try it yet. ;P

Comment from Fanie
Time: May 7, 2008, 3:14 pm

Woho, I’m comment 71! :-D

So, my latest wildest adventure in the world of stitching have been to stitch a kitchen towel with Jenny’s design from the “Sushi bar”. I sent it as a gift to a friend in France and she loved it! The only bad thing is that I don’t have any picture from it but it will give me a reason to stitch even more.

I’m very interested in stitching as art, so this may very well be my next stitch project!

Thank you for this interview, Jennifer! We love, Jenny! ^-^ (And we love you, too!)

Comment from JayJay
Time: May 7, 2008, 3:42 pm

I’m just getting back into the game of making things handmade. My latest project was sewing a drawstring bag, with two contrasting materials from an old mens shirt and I embroidered a seashell onto it since I’m living near the ocean. I’m going to use it for my Mothers day gift.

It is so uplifting and inspiring to see an artist who has found her calling and is so passionate about it. Keep at it!

Comment from danielle
Time: May 7, 2008, 5:04 pm

i made a crazy embroidered pillowcase out of the most random designs in the first sublime stitching book and my boyfriend fell in love with it and took it. i read in the book about using dressmaker’s carbon to transfer other designs to fabric and ended up making him a second pillowcase with all of the characters from his favorite made-for-adults cartoon, aqua teen hunger force.

nothing says “i love you” like embroidering a cartoon man with tons of chest and shoulder hair onto a pillowcase.

Comment from Josie
Time: May 8, 2008, 12:30 pm

I had a wild embroidery experience while at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival. I was working on a tea towel as a gift for the guy friend whose house I stayed at. The image was of the waitress from Jenny Hart’s krazy kitchen series.

Above the image I embroidered “I heart Alejandro” as I had rocked out to Alejandro Escovedo the previous night and acted like a teenager at a Beatles concert. He’s also from Austin TX and quite dreamy even to a 40 something mom.

My friends thought this was silly. Not sure if the embroidery was wild but I know I acted wild at the concert….New Orleans will do that to a girl.

Comment from robin
Time: May 8, 2008, 9:36 pm

Hi Jennifer – I finally caught up to real time on the podcasts and can actually enter a contest (LOVE your show, it’s often very comforting, esp. while I’m at work, so thanks!)

My “wildest” embroidery attempt is an ongoing project that started so long ago I actually lost track of time. Originally I was going to embroider 10 “illustrations” of fairy tales. Then I started four, and finished a couple but then I foolishly decided to make them all bigger (original diameter was 2.5 inch, now they’re supposed to be 3.5 inch). I only have one done which is “Rapunzel”:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/2477767134_7ef53dce57_o.jpg
Then I’m currently expanding “Jack & the Beanstalk” and have yet to widen “The Frog Prince” or “Little Red Riding Hood”… and I haven’t even thought of 6 more of these to do in the next two decades. Sometimes I work on them and friends ask “What are you working on?” and I say “The same thing as last time” … but maybe I’ll get really wild someday and finish the imaginary set of ten.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2476955073_ea18154d85_o.jpg

Comment from shells
Time: May 9, 2008, 7:37 am

I loved hearing Jenny’s story. And her wonderful voice!
I tried to make a memory quilt in high school, and commissioned my friends to each make a block. Some I got back, most I didn’t.
More recently I have been embroidering with beads on felt. I guess the wildest thing I’ve embroidered was felt flowers overtop of the brand labels of a thrifted purse.

Comment from Stephanie Jones
Time: May 10, 2008, 12:55 pm

I used to cross stitch, but quickly got bored with it. Years later my mom bought me one of Jenny’s books for Christmas and…voila! I am hooked on embroidering everything I can get me hands on.

As for craziest embroidery? Nothing too crazy from me. I did do a onsie for my new cousin that had road kill on it, but that is about as crazy as I have gotten :)

Comment from breezily
Time: May 10, 2008, 12:59 pm

I enjoyed this podcast while driving on a long journey this morning (I listened to #74 Lexi Boeger on the outward trip earlier this week, that was great too). I haven’t embroidered for some time, and I am not a wild stitcher: my favorite project was some snowdrops!

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