Yesterday I showed you the beginnings of a gift for a friend. At the time I wasn’t very happy with it, and suspected that I would end up taking out most of the stitching.
And I did!
This is the new version of the embroidery. I finished the red wiggly chain stitching. I can live with it! I took out the yellow/green buttonhole and replaced it with long-armed palestrina stitch. I removed the French knots and replaced them with nicer, more evenly spaced French knots. I added some purple silk cross stitches into the spaces around the red wiggles. Finally I worked a round of green silk buttonhole at the outside edge.
I still don’t know what I’m going to make it up into. I’m calling it a brooch, but I am not sure if that’s what it will end up being, or how. Need to let it mull over further in my mind yet… Stay tuned.
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When I do something small like this, I make them into little pillows and call them a brooch pillow. It is somewhere for your brooches to live when you are not wearing them. My mother has a small open basket in which she displays the pillows and brooches – she loves it.
I’ll be interested to see where you go from here.
Incidentally, I’ve seen the LH and RH Embroiderer’s Companions on sale at the Manchester Stitch and Creative Crafts Show today. On two different stands! Selling well, too, I’m told.
Great news – thanks Rachel!
That’s a great idea Carol. Unfortunately though mine is pretty small, and wouldn’t really fit anything but the smallest brooch on it!