Little dress and embroidery were made by a Friend.
White dress with pretty Shadow Embroidery on it.
I first printed this Embroidery design on a gown in Creative Needle...a long time ago.
You can now find it in Antique Toddler Dresses, Best Embroidered Baby Clothes Two and a slightly smaller version in my Jeannie B. Embroidery Book
Shadow Embroidery is lovely and not difficult to stitch. Old Fashioned Shadow Work embroidery, originally called cross backstitching, consists of stitches worked on the wrong side of sheer fabric. The result will be the closed herringbone stitch on the wrong side and double rows of backstitching on the right side with the thread from the back shadowing through to the front.
It was often worked with white thread on white fabric which gave a very elegant look. Today it is mostly colored threads used on linens and fine children's clothing. Beautiful, anyway you stitch it!
This is my White Wednesday with Faded Charm!
What I am reading this morning:
"You stiff- necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy spirit. As your fathers did, so do you." Acts 7:51
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