Skulls for ladies in the very best age ;-)

It’s always a different thing with age. And fashion. And with daughters. And with a special taste. Anyway!

Some weeks ago I gave my daughter a cussion made of corkfabric, embroidered with my BERNINA 880. I enjoyed embroidering two funny Mexican Skulls on this handsome new material. I like to insert the link to the German BERNINA Blog, just to have a look at the photos:

https://blog.bernina.com/de/2015/02/think-big-stitch-big/

Well. Cross your heart. It happens to you, that you look at something and think – I really like it! I need it! I will have sleepless nights without it ;-). That’s what happend to me, I saw these skulls the first time. Ok, I slept anyway….

Last week I received another cork delivery and found a pretty new colour in it: I ordered some new dark brown and it turned out brilliant. That’s it! I will have another bag. And I will put some nice embroidered skulls on it.

No sooner said than done. The bag itself should be quite simple. The large format embroideries had first priority. I used the pattern of my standard shopping bag – please find the making of in the following link:

https://blog.bernina.com/en/2014/05/trendy-shopping-bag-with-photo-instructions/

The BERNINA 880 was a brave one and worked throughout the weekend. Patient and perfect. Without noise and difficulties.

Well, here we are again, talking about the age of mid-fourty. Not so old yet, but not the teeny one ;-). Therefore I chose nice yarns, matching with the new dark brown. I was curious how the same embroidery pattern would turn out with these different colours.

I just popped into my working room from time to time, to change the yarns.

The bag bottom was switched inbetween the outsides and stitched down with pressure foot # 53.

It already turned into a bag….

This bag variation is so easy and quick to sew. As the corkmaterial is quite solid, I did not need to use any batting. Just some stabilizer found into the bag. I ironed Decovil light I from Freudenberg on the outsides, and a cut of Decovil I for addional stabilizing for the bottom of the bag.