Over the past few months I've been learning the Husqvarna 5D Embroidery Design software package. It's incredibly user-friendly and POWERFUL, wow, but there are a lot of technical features to learn. My first independent design project was a medallion . . . something small, of course. Ha. There were far too many stitches in my initial design -- clearly I am an embroidery digitizing rookie! But then I loaded up a few bobbins and gave it a try . . . Here's the initial stitch-out:
Together with the fabrics below, am thinking these would make a gorgeous quilt?
Then I tried a modified version of the medallion on a few other surfaces. Here it is stitched on to a machine knit sampler. (I added the purple running stitches afterwards by hand.)
And finally, the studio rack of happy medallion experiments:
I love the one below stitched on linen. I think the pale pink works wonders against the moss green: