Remember way
back when I stitched my first Travelling Pattern? It was
Shakespeare's Peddlar's Count Your Blessings and I asked people to tell me who
their Stitching Blessing was. Freddy's Mama (aka Kirsten) told me about
her friend Irene and as Kirsten's name was pulled out of the hat I decided to
make a little something to thank her "blessing".
The design and
stitching was simple. I like the quote "Stitching Friends are
Friends who Count", it's a nice pun and a lovely sentiment. I laid
out the quote on graph paper in an invented font and added the symbols from the
Travelling Pattern (anyone know the name for those 8 leaved
symbols?). Then I decided to make it into a padded ornament. I
stitched round three sides inside out then turned it the right way out, so far
so good. I stuffed it and slip stitched the final side. Now I have
two nice corners and two different corners. So I decided to put cord
around the edges, but I should have buried the cord ends inside the ornie
before sewing it up. So I was left with two ends. Which I
sewed together and tried to hide with some gold braid wrapped round them!!
I sent the ornie off
to Irene with an explanation that this is my first and probably only
ornie! It arrived yesterday and as I remembered to take a photo before it
went off to the USA
I can show you all, here it is:
The back is made from
one of the fabric samples I got earlier this year. They make lovely
ornament backings so I will include them with any giveaways I do so people who
actually like making the things can do so!! The thread is a variegated
DMC.
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