While my sweetie has been recovering from surgery for the past week and a half, I've been sewing hankies for her and stitching her favorite bicycles into the corners. I started out with a few yards of fabric, some embroidery floss and a needle. This is one final result:
I started out by finding images of each bicycle on the internet, then using Photoshop to turn them into black and white drawings:
I then printed each bicycle and backlit the images with fabric on top. After sketching the bicycles onto the fabric, I embroidered. Each bicycle is about three inches wide. I then backed each bicycle with a cloth heart, mostly to hide the loose ends underneath.
The unicycle:
... and its heart (whose stars are actually sparkly and silver):
The tandem:
... and its heart:
The Redline 925:
... and its heart:
The Motobecane (my second favorite): 
... and its heart:
The cruiser (my favorite):
... and its heart:
The classic cycle:
... and its heart:
The Surly Big Dummy:
... and its heart:
It's been a very fine thing to do while it's snowy and cold out.
Cloth hankies save trees!
