Thanks y’all for the stitchy advice! How do y’all think the glass of lemonade came out? I did use a different shade of light blue for the ice cubes but I don’t think you can really tell. No big deal.
A tiny little part of me wants to fill in the glass solid yellow using the long and short stitch (or random seed stitches), but I am holding myself back because if I fill in the glass than that means I’d have to fill in the other patterns, and I don’t want to do that 
It’s not that I’m being lazy, it’s just that I guess I want this to be a more relaxing “quick” embroidery project rather than having to keep at it for so long because I am filling everything in.
I’ve also stitched up the watermelon and I like how it came out. I used backstitch, split stitch, and lazy dasies.
bar be cute pattern by wild olive
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They turned out really cute ! Can’t wait to see the rest !
thanks, wild olive is right, everything is better with a litlte smiley face! this pattern is so fun!
Maybe you could crayon tint, or colored pencil tint? That’s what I like to do if I don’t want to spend all that time filling in, but it needs that extra something.
I know a lot of people use crayons, but I’ve had more success with the overall even color feel with colored pencils
I like the idea of a crayon or color pencil tint but don’t know if that washes out in the laundry easily? An applique background came to mind but it’s possibly too late for this project. Looks cute!
I did experiment with crayon tinting once but wasn’t sure if I loved the technique, but I was just practicing on some scrap fabric so maybe the practice project I chose for crayon tinting wasn’t appropriate. Plus, if I were to embrace crayon color tinting, I don’t like the idea of washing my crayon tinted dish toweles in the laundry with all the other towels and stuff, I’m concerned that the wax might get all over everything at some point….. But there definitely is some very cute crayon tinted embroidered stuff on flickr though!
And yes, it is too late to applique for this project but for the future, that would be a great idea, especially since now that I’m sewing I’ll saving my scraps and stuff, I could reuse them in a new way!
There is someone on flickr, whose user name escapes my memory now, but she stitches the cutest clotheslines with applique clothes!
They sell fabric crayons! They don’t wash out I don’t believe…I have some, but haven’t used them yet. I think you can use them like this in the tinting, but also like a transfer. I’m wanting Mason to draw me something, and then I’ll iron it onto something special!
Oh yea, and I think doe-c-doe does some cute clothes line-applique clothes.
yes doe c doe does cute clothes appliques, i actually won one of them in a giveaway!