This weekend we’ll be celebrating a good friend’s 50th birthday. (Carina, if you are reading this, stop now!) I would like to make her a gift because she’s special!
She likes bright colours. My first thought was “Oh dear, I don’t do bright coloured embroidery.” I was envisioning garish brightly coloured Hardanger! But then I realised, that of course I do brightly coloured embroidery – isn’t that what most of the embroideries in my stitch dictionaries were like?!
So out came the coloured felt and the threads. I think I’ll either make an embroidered brooch, or a necklace pendant (not sure how that would work, but we’ll see!). I started it yesterday, and am not very happy with it yet.
I’m not very enamoured with the French knots or the yellowy-green buttonhole stitch. The curves of red chain stitch aren’t particularly nice curves, but I think I can probably live with them. Hmmm… maybe not. I’ll probably pull most of it out before I’m done with it!
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Don’t be so hard on yourself! Its not necessarily my kind of thing but my first thought when I saw it was that it was great. I like the multi-tone felt, and the red chain stitch curves will work well once you’ve done them all, as a whole.
Thanks Jennifer! I know I’m a bit hard on myself, but I want it to be “perfect”! 😀
Ah I know that perfect feeling – I just spent four hours unpicking a project and doing it all over again because it wasn’t perfect, to my eye at least. My husband thought it was fine but then he always does 🙂
You understand. 😀
Remember it has to please the recipient and not necessarily you!
That said, I know all about unpicking and restitching multiple times, and always get there in the end!