Honestly, I don’t really care. It’s not my stitch along anymore. 
It was supposed to be about fun and community building. I am not discounting machine embroidery, it just started as hand embroidery.
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I think on the old place we had a separate category for machine stitching. I do think free-form machine embroidery combined with hand embroidery would fit…I personally think most things in a hoop would be acceptable, like felt embroideries…perhaps the key word is hand stitching?
I just enjoy it all…maybe some things wouldn’t qualify for the challenges, but, I would still love to see what people make…
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Here’s my entry for July. I swear I didn’t come up with this until the other day, long after announcing the theme.
I outlined the wings in gold hand embroidery. It was too bright, so I hit it with a black sharpie. But it counts!
another picture and more words here I stitched some scraps and I liked it
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This is what I was thinking as well. But like @AIMR said, I don’t want to miss out on awesome projects! And since @MistressJennie has participated with a machine embroidered piece before, I say let’s add machine embroidery to our working definition and see what happens!
But a strictly machine sewn piece, while technically stitching, still wouldn’t count for this craftalong unless it had machine or hand embroidered elements.
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I’m baking a strudel then just have to finish mounting this, hoping to mail it to you tomorrow @steiconi!
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oooooh, French knots! mmmmm, streudal!
Colonial knots! I can’t see a difference but wanted to try them 
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Tease!
I can see the difference…they are fatter than the French…like most colonials are…
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Oooh the ladybug! 
Mounted with a hanging ribbon on the back & off in the mail tomorrow! It’s very green but not as green as this photo, lookin’ real neon here, lol.
I used lots of different stitches:
The white daisies are French knots & boullion stitch.
Blue forget-me-knots are cast on & drizzle stitch.
Yellow yarrow is colonial knots. Lavender is lazy daisy & knots.
Red roses are spider web stitch. There’s also stem, split and long & short stitch.
It’s a subtle rainbow for Pride month, see all the colours?
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Absolutely beautiful!!! What an amazingly generous prize.
Lovely, I’ve got just the spot for it!
Just gorgeous…love the yarrow…
Absolutely, amazingly beautiful! I love the rainbow.
Not to come and drag out what is embroidery or not, but look at this amazing piece, done with a sewing machine. Just a regular machine. Im amazed that people can free hand sew like this (or free hand quilting)
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Beautiful thread painting!
love all the faces!
Here’s some incredible accurate anatomical stitchies, just WOW!
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The embroidery is fantastic, but I’m wowed by her confidence!
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