Orange Rug Yarn Musings

Although I am planning to work the color scheme each month because I think that will help me grow more as an artist, I am inspired by this month's theme of "What are you old enough to remember." In a fiber arts sense, the thing that comes to mind is how fabric and embroidery materials were available at (an ever decreasing number of) department stores and variety stores. Now, even Walmart is cutting out it's fabric and craft section and places like JoAnn fabrics are focusing on crafts and framing. At any rate, for the February Take It Further challenge piece, I want to do an iron-on embroidery pattern (or more likely a tracing of one.) But I'm having a very hard time deciding what I want to do. I have some transfers I like, but there are also so many great ones on the web. Such as the ones at Vintage Transfer Finds. I also like some of the images used as challenges at Hand Embroidery Group Projects. Of course, I need to find one that fits with my color scheme too. Anyway, I haven't started stitching, I'm just taking too much time looking at different possible designs on the web and in my stash.d