I do it all the time, when the quilt "calls" for some embellishing or extra loving.

The first time I combined embroidery and quilting was the vintage hankerchief/butterfly quilt that Cheri_C posted years back. It sits patiently waiting for me to find my embroidery hoop again.
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Here's my favorite example of the combination: Sorry if you're bored of it, I've posted it a lot before because I love it so much. It was for my first and only granddaughter and my mother, aunt and I did the embroidery. Emma's 18 months old and literally drags it everywhere with her. She calls it GiGi, which is also what she calls my mother. I wonder if they're connected in her mind.
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I haven't yet, but I would like to someday.

SharonG/FL

Oh dian57 that quilt is so cute! I can see why your angel loves it so. I would love to add embroidery at some point in my quilting future. But I think it will be on my list of "must do" for the time being.

Thanks for the question; I hope people show pictures of their quilts where they used this beautiful skill. It sure gives me inspiration!

Susan

Well...... one thing I have done was buy a cheap pattern (Aunt Martha's patterns) and cut off what I don't want from the pattern and iron it to muslin fabric. I then have it as a pickup and go project when ever the mood hits. After I finish as many 'blocks' as I want, I make some sort of finishing pattern to put it together and make a small quilt. I did one in all one color that was baby animals and it really came out cute. The person who got it love it. I have been doing one for my daughter -- if she ever has a baby I will be ready :)!! It has Noah's ark and baby animals in the center. I surrounded the pattern with 9 patch and plain squares which I did additionl emboridery in the blank parts to finish it off, like blocks of fish/rainbow/dove and things of that sort. I left an area for baby's name, etc - and still working on ideas for the blank blocks to complete it. It is cute and still an on going process.

I have no embroidery skills so it's not on my list. I'll be happy if I can just do hand applique that doesn't look terrible! lol

kate

I have no embroidery machine and my hands are too bad to be doing hand work.

I'm glad this question was asked.I don't have an embroidery machine and I'm not sure what hand embroidery is. I have lightly traced a pattern onto a muslin square and then outlined the design with floss. I loved doing it although I wasn't very good at it. Is that considered hand embroidery? How is hand embroidery different from what is called needlepoint?

~Geraldine

I love embroidery and I love applique. So I combine either or both in quilting when called for. I embroidered bits of the "Monsters Quilt", previously shown, and am now doing a HST block with half applique and embroidery and the other half pieced traditional parts. Not finished designing it yet so still unsure about the pieced parts. Embroidery/applique looks good so far. Will post when done.

Beautiful quilts Diane.
I love embroidery on quilts and I do use it all of the time. I have also used it to quilt but it is hard to hoop the 3 layers, and I embroidered a raggedy edge quilt for my sis. This is a magnolia quilt I am making for DH.
Rosa

Here is a little redwork I made into a quilt...Gwen

Very sweet Gwen! She even has a patchwork dress.

All your quilts are beautiful. I don't have pics of my quilts. My 'puter crashed in March and I lost some of my pics.

Linda OH

I love to combine hand embroidery redwork/bluework and pieced blocks for baby quilts. Next I want to combine sashiko and pieced blocks to make a table runner.

Here is a redwork baby quilt:

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and a close-up:

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I love to embroidery all of the embroidery her are beautiful.

I have the blocks for bluework quilt, I need to buy a piece of bluework fabric so I can get the exact color of embroidery thread.

Sid

I am collecting fabrics and embroidery machine designs for a Fall/Thanksgiving wallhanging. I can get started on it (and a few others) after I get a hated quilt off the frame!