I’ve started a big embroidery WIP. I transferred nearly every image from Wild Olive’s bar-be-cute pattern onto a red stripey Aunt Martha towel.
But I need some stitchy advice. I was thinking of outlining the entire glass (you can see I started a little bit around the rim and down just a bit on the left hand side) in DMC 747 very light sky blue and then extending my line of DMC 445 light lemon all around the sides and bottom of the glass to show that there is lemonade inside the glass.
OR do you think I should outline the rest of the “glass” in yellow (except the wee bit on the right that I missed with the blue)?
What do y’all think????
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In my VHPO (very honest personal opinion)
… I will continue the glass in the very light sky blue color… but that is just my opinion 
! I think that is a very good choice to stitch glass…
the yellow you chose for the lemon wedge is a perfect lemon color!
Just gave my opinion on flickr too, but the more I think about, I think you should do the glass all in blue. I’m thinking about it because I have these patterns too, I’d like to get them done before the next big cook out, but haven’t exactly decided what I plan to do with them. I’m sure it will turn out cute as can be whichever way you decide to go
Whenever I’m questioning, I go to the flickr embroidery pool and see how other people have stitched the same or a similar design. There are a couple glasses of lemonade in the pool — you might get some ideas from looking at those.
I think if you want to stitch along the inside of your glass outline with the yellow floss, you might want to do chain stitch or split stitch with maybe one or two more threads than you’re using for the lemonade — with the glass being a light color, you want to be sure the outline of the glass stands out really well against the yellow, and both chain stitch and split stitch give more texture than backstitch IMO. Another option would be to stitch two rows of stem stitch or chain stitch or even backstitch for the outline of the glass — I know when I was stitching the fruit design for the towel I made Beetastic, adding that second row of stem stitch made a huge difference in making that design “pop”.
Thanks y’all for taking the time to type out such lengthy responses! From looking at the pattern and reading what y’all said, I think I am just going to outline the rest of the glass blue and skip putting the extra yellow inside the glass. I think the lemon wedge and little wave of yellow do give enough indication that lemonade is indeed in the glass.
The other reason I am just going to outline the glass blue and not stitch a yellow line inside is that there is also a jar of relish pattern and when I looked at the jar of relish I didn’t even think that I should add a green stitchy line inside the the jar to indicate it’s full of relish…..
@Lisa, glad you have the pattern too and I look foward to seeing them done! Originally I was going to make an apron using that red check fabric I bought at JoAnns but changed my mind about it. Then I though tabout making napkins but I came to the sad conclusion that the check pattern was a bit too “tight” or “small” and that the patterns might get lost on it and not really stand out, especially the ketchup bottle
Maybe you could find a larger red checked fabric and make napkins to use at your next cook out!
red checked fabric:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookwormbethie/3629495642/
They would have been cute on red gingham! Maybe each one embroidered on a little square of white, then appliqued to the gingham? I have a picture in my head how that might look, sounds cute. I thought napkins right off for my patterns, then I thought hmm, used outside, with messy bar-b-cue type food, how long would my napkins last??
Oh I agree the patterns would look cute stitched up on red gingham/redchecked fabric for napkins, but I think the red checked fabric I bought was too dark and had a small pattern. Applique is a good idea, but I was feeling lazy so I aborted the napkin idea and switched to embroidering them on a tea towel instead!
But I do think the patterns would look better stitched up on a larger red checked fabric, without having to do anything applique, something like this:
http://pics.rubylane.com/graphics/shops/yearsafter/12557.1N.jpg
And I don’t know if BBQ stains would come out easily out of the napkins or not
It would also be fun to make a “bar be cutie” apron too! That was something I thought about but I really wanted a break from the sewing machine, so I did the tea towel instead.