Hello and welcome to the world of Inspiration Mutz - get carried away to new ideas and enjoy your machine even more ! All designs come in ART / HUS /JEF / PES / VIP format and are available for immediate download              Orders are processed by BMT MICRO Click on the required format below to add to shopping cart The following payment methods are supported Some artwork by Idea for project and layout     by Inspiration Mutz Inspiration Mutz Embroidery ............ there is so much more than ‘just stitching’ Your website from South Africa for machine embroidery designs and small project collections Working with felt:                                   Price: $ 20   Penny Rug: Happy Easter Some weeks ago I was asked by a stitcher from AK if I was interested to design a ‘Penny Rug’ suitable for machine embroidery.  After some research and reading on the history about such an item I was kind of ‘hooked’ and replied that I would give it a try. And the more I read about them - the more images I saw - the more the urge was there to start one soon and it ended up in this project - all done in the 5x7 hoop - on felt over WSS (Vilene). If you go and Google the word ‘Penny Rug’ you will find many images and interesting pages with information about how they originate and what the idea was. This goes back to the 19th century where woman turned scraps of woolen fabric from old garments into felt and created round ‘pennies’ from different layers and colors of this felt - held together and same time embellished with some kind of decorative embroidery - and sometimes simple shapes of an applique-kind nature were added to create useful items like rugs or mats - . So - the word is ‘prim’ or ‘naive’ - but considering that they only had their very 2 hands and a needle to create these rather interesting items gives me a feeling of great respect. The pennies are done with 4 in 1 hooping, then there is a centre circle and 4 inner sections. The pennies are arranged around the assembled inner part and sewn in place with a few zig-zag stitches. That is basically it. Inner parts and circle have applique detail as well as embroidery and also text. A well texted and illustrated PDF is supplied with the file.   Finished project is 41 cm in dia (16.4 inch)