When I got an email from C&T Publishing showing their newly released books, I had to smile.
I was a product of the 70s. Embroidery was big back then and oh my, did I ever love doing it. I had a jean jacket that I was constantly adding a new embroidery motif to. I just loved that jean jacket.
This isn’t my actual jacket but mine looked something like this…
Mine had a row of flowers across the back near the bottom. I LOVED stitching on it. Back then McCalls and Simplicity had iron-on motifs and I was always wanting more motifs to iron on and stitch.
This is the pattern that I had…I did some Googling to find it. Oh my, I got more than the 65 cents worth out of the pattern.
My dream was to have my jean jacket look just like the gal’s that is in the picture. I wish I still had it to show you all. It was so fun.
So, imagine my joy when I saw the book that C&T is publishing…Embroidery. Notice the big yellow flower on the back of the jean jacket?
My 12-year-old self is coveting it. It would have been a great addition to my jean jacket.
The book is Everyday Embroidery for Modern Stitchers written by Megan Eckman and is full of fun motifs.
The book shows how to make several different projects and then lets you mix and match motifs to projects.
Here is a little more info from C&T about it.
“Get started with embroidery! Sew 15 fun projects that are approachable, practical, and awesome
Go retro, mystical, or botanical with 50 themed embroidery ideas to iron on or download and print
Mix and match motifs to choose your own adventure—even embroider your own apparel“
There were lots of cute things.
As I said, my 12-year-old self really wanted this book.
But, alas. I turned 55 and jean jackets with cool embroidery aren’t the thing and now I’m into cross-stitching. It was a cute book though…and if you have a 12-year-old in your life. Buy a jean jacket and a book like this along with embroidery supplies might be just the thing. Who knows…maybe 43 years later she’ll be writing a blog post and feeling nostalgic about her 12-year-old self and her mad embroidery skills.
You can find the book HERE at C&T Publishing.
You can also find it HERE on Amazon.
When my children were little (early 70s), I embroidered flowers on the cummerbund part of my 5 year old daughter’s dress. Then my 3 year old son said, “I want flowers on my clothes too. I said, “I’m not going to put flowers on your clothes.” So I found some cross stitch animals, like a dog and an octopus on his bib overalls. He was satisfied with that. One child always wanted what the other one had. I’m sure you can relate to that, Jo.
Ha, ha! I still can’t part with the brown corduroy jean jacket that I bought in the 2000’s with flowers embroidered around the bottom 1/3 of it (although I didn’t do it myself). I loved it and wore it lots. Even though it’s not in style now, I’m sure I’ll be ‘stylin’ in it again … probably when I’m in my 80’s … LOL!
Beautiful wedding quilt!
I absolutely love your wedding quilt. So beautiful! Can’t wait to get the pattern.
When I started kindergarten in the late 70s, my grandma made me two pair of pants and each pair had different iron-on motifs on the pockets. I proudly wore those until I outgrew them. In the 80s I always envied those with all the cool artwork on their denim jackets but knew if I dared defile my only denim jacket I’d be in trouble.
I remember when I was in high school in the 70’s doing embroidery around the hem of my jeans. It was flower-power and all and I loved decorating my clothing. Thanks for bringing back the memories Jo!
I am a bit older than you – I graduated in the mid ’70s – I embroidered on my jean jacket and I think I had 3 pair of jeans that I embroidered on – one of them quite a lot. When the jeans wore out (and I likely out grew them as well) I couldn’t bear to toss them so I cut the legs off and sewed the bottom and used them as a bag/purse. Then when I out grew the bag as a fashion statement I re-modified it into a clothes pin bag (yep, I still hang clothes out on a line). I have only recently had to replace that bag as it became too worn out for even that. But I saved the back pocket, that embroidery was still good!
I’m 56. I say wear what makes you happy. I do. It was a great improvement to my life when I decided to find a style that is actually a style I like and am comfortable in. I use the word style loosely. I’m a tunic and leggings/ jeans with boots kinda gal lol