Jan Gear – Embroidered Pillow Cases
Author: tracysigler | Posted: January 7th, 2010 | | Tags: craft, embroidery, sewing | 1 Comment »You can run, but you can’t hide from me when I’m carrying the Flip. This latest ambush is with my aunt Jan. For Christmas she made some very fancy embroidered pillow cases for my parents. I can’t imagine sweating and drooling on these masterpieces so I’m guessing they’re ornamental.
I dropped the ball and forgot to get photos while I was there, but I think you can see clearly enough from the video that pillow cases have a lot of detail. Gifts like this really are special, and not just because of the significant amount of time it takes to make something like this. In this (pillow) case it was about 20 hours for the pair.
One year I tried to make every gift I gave, and it just about killed me. Props to everyone makin’ stuff.
It was fun seeing the video of the two of you together discussing pillowcases. I LOVE the pillowcases shown that she made for me. There is no doubt that someone loves you if they put that much work into a gift. (I don’t have a picture of the set Jan made for Robin but I did take pictures of my set and also the beautiful set she made for Jane.)