Embroidery on Burlap

Inspired both by the Easter season, and by the burlap tapestry art of Lisa Borgnes Giramonti, I started an embroidery-on-burlap project a few weeks ago...my very first.

I already had the burlap. I bought an inexpensive needlework frame, and got started, choosing the words "He Is Risen". Once I finished it, I decided to make a small pillow slip out of it.

Taking a small pillow that decorates my living room presently, I took its measurements and decided to make a pillow slip for that pillow - something I could put on it, and remove it sometime after Easter, and save it for next spring...I love decorating for both Christmas and Easter. This, I think, will be specific to Easter.



I took a .75 cent linen jumper that I bought at Goodwill, specifically for the fabric alone - wouldn't be caught cold and dead in the dress...


...and laid out the measurements of the pillow on it, using a disappearing ink pen - all you sewers know the one I'm talking about...




Cutting from the center out in an "X" shape, I cut the opening for the burlap insert, and pressed the seams back...



...and stitched the insert into the opening, then sewed three seams together. (I left a finished edge that was already on the dress - one less thing for me to sew!)



The finished product ~




I so enjoyed the embroidery on burlap, and am already planning my next project with it.

9 comments:

Summer said...

Sheila , That is BEAUTIFUL!!....I want to make one too ....You are a very talented woman ....We are blessed to have the LORD JESUS aren't we ....Rest well !!

SmallMomentsBigJoy said...

I love that! So very nice.

SmallMomentsBigJoy said...

I love that! So very nice.

Unknown said...

looooveee itttt!!!!!

Sarah Howe said...

Dang! That looks awesome!

Lynn Smith said...

You are adding the coolest pillows to your collection, AND YOU MADE THEM!!!! Too cool!

Lynn Smith said...

You are adding some great pillows to your collection. AND YOU'VE MADE THEM!!!!! How cool is that?!?!?!?!?

Anonymous said...

Echoing agreement and delight! *BEAU.TEE.FULLLL* / LOVE IT...

Sheila Atchley said...

Hi Summer, my friend! :-) They are not hard to make...if you need me to show you how, I can.

Thank you, Joy-full-mom for taking the time to stop by and leave a comment...comments always delight me. FUN!

And I appreciate my daughters, my seeeester, and my "MomAnn" for taking time they don't have, to leave an encouraging word here for me. Thanks, ladies. Seeing your names in my comments section is a day maker.