Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Quaker Carrots

I am sooo excited about this!  I have no idea where I got the idea from, so if it's yours, then thank-you!
Last week I found a pencilled in entry in my craft journal from last year that just said "Quaker carrots".  I had totally forgotten writing that.


I did the stitching on these yesterday and today.  I wanted to make three but I ran out of floss:(
 I dyed my own 32 count linen, and used the orange DMC Color Variations.


I traced a pie shape onto the linen, and then starting stitching Quaker style motifs inside the pie shapes.

After cutting them out I stitched up the sides; turned them inside out and stuffed them; added the raggedy tops and used a gathering stitch to close them up.  The green calico was torn into strips and pieces were braided and some parts were left loose.  I wrapped another strip around the top of the carrot to hide my gathering stitches on the carrot.


I think they go well with my little vintage rabbit from yesterday, don't you?


Thanks for visiting!

3 comments:

Patty C. said...

This is just too darling !!!!

Anonymous said...

WOW, YOU HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN BUSY SINCE WE LEFT. lOVE THE CARROTS AND THE TAGS. THEY'RE TOO NICE TO GET LOST IN AN AIRPORT!

Veronica said...

Love it! Such an ingenious idea. Rabbit and carrots look so cute together.

Hugs,
Veronica.

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