When you do embroidery, are you always wondering what you can do with it once it is finished? Will you frame it? Will you make it into a cushion or pillow? Will you make it into a needlecase? Can it just be hemmed and left as is?
OR, is the making enough? Does it need to be made into anything? This is what I ponder in today’s video. I’d love to know what you think.
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Yes, the making is enough is many cases. What goes into a storage box instead of getting finished off into a [something] are experiments, trials, and explorations with new threads, fabrics, and techniques. I’ll try just about anything and do enough Brazilian embroidery, for example, to know it is not my New Favorite Thing, and into the box it goes. Only work that comes out well gets the further investment of framing or mounting in a box top.
Thanks for your thoughts, BG.
What BGinBmore said. Plus at my rate of stitching (sloooow!) by the time I finish something, sometimes my tastes have changed, I can’t find the desired finishing materials, or I decide that the intended finish is no longer what I want but haven’t yet decided on a new finish. So into the box it goes.