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After over a month waiting for fray check to arrive (they ‘forgot’ about my order), I was finally able to finish this off. I hate doing button holes as it you stuff it up the whole piece is basically screwed, but thankfully my machine’s button holing function behaved! Made with black wool with silver flecks,…
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Progress on the baby whale. So close to finishing now…
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After much frustration where the wool completely rended, twice!, on one of the front panels when reversing, we finally have a waistcoat ready for top stitching. The wool tended to rend along seams, particularly where raw edges frayed endlessly. So after the original front panel, then the replacement panel rended, I just went to town…
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More progress on the whale; currently filling in the back of the main whale, then I’ll move on to the smaller baby positioned underneath.
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More progress on the whale. I’m going to be heading over into flipper and tail territory soon!
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A quick weekender bookmark project. Unfortunately the ribbon provided was vastly too small to cover the stitching on the back, so I improvised with a felt insert that extended just enough on either side of the ribbon to hide the stitching.
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Guess what I’m stitching now? I’ve always found that Couchman cross stitch patterns simple and generally straight forward. This one though, omg! The lines of colour are so hard to keep in focus that major miscounts happen very easily. The black section had to be unpicked in it’s entirety at least 5 times consecutively because…
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Decided to put the backing on this wall hanging I finished a number of years ago. An easy way of adding a hanger is to insert some corner triangles in-between the hanging face and the padding/backing! When the hanging gets turned right side out these make small pockets that holds the hanging dowel in place.
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I realised I’d made a rookie error with the original calculations (aka calculating pleats into whole length instead of finished length!). Once that was sorted I got sewing. This is the finished cage cover. Despite careful measuring for some reason it has one end invert shorter by 2.5cm and a lining pucker under half a…
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Slowly getting there with the dragon cross stitch. Stitching on black is really hard on the eyes, particularly when some sections are the same colour in different stitches!