MarJen for Error - Embroidered strips are underway...

One strip of fabric stitching in the machine.

The second strip in the hoop and ready to stitch!

My machine had been busy stitching purple floral designs for the embroidered strips on the MarJen for Error quilt. The floral design is the same all the way down the strips, it is only rotated 180 degrees for every other design. This gives it the intwining ribbon look.

I made a few changes to the embroidery design itself. When I stitched the first design, it was missing come underlay stitches (those crazy stitches that seem to have no purpose, but help to stabilize the fabric). Some of the leaves were a step stitch and some were a fancy stitch, so I changed all of them to be the same fancy stitch, which helps to give the leaf texture.

The design itself takes about 1 1/2 hours to stitch by the time you count in thread changes. There are two strips with 10 designs on each one. So there are quite a few hours of embroidery. But at least my machine can be stitching as I am doing other things. And with 2 embroidery hoops and 2 strips of fabric, I can alternate between the two and get more stitching accomplished in a smaller amount of time.

I have one strip in the machine stitching. While it's stitching, I can get the other strip, marked and hooped in the second hoop so it is ready to embroider as soon as the first is finished. My machine just keeps on stitching!

The purple on the yellow looks fantastic!! I'm so excited about the color combination - it looks gorgeous!!