Anyway I have a decision to make about thread colour. I want to stitch this fairy for my great-niece who is due any time. I have a piece of raspberry aida to stitch her on but can't decide on thread colour - magenta? pink? purple? a total contrast? Any ideas? I want to do a plain colour not a hand-dyed but other than that I'm not sure.
I have finished a cute Japanese Beckoning Cat design by Joan Elliott this weekend and framed it in a bargain frame. The bric-a-brac people left a box of bric and brac in our Toddler Group hall and while I was moving it to a safe place I couldn't help but notice three picture frames. I was told everything was 10p so I generously gave them 50p for all 3!
招き猫 These are the Japanese characters for Maneki Neko which I might try stitching along the bottom of the picture. Alternatively I might find some oriental braid and fix that along the bottom. I found a great shop in town recently which sells lovely trimmings. The shop is at the grotty end of town and is a bit tatty on the outside. Inside it's a jumble sale but they do have some great finds if you don't mind rummaging.
Sorry to hear about your google problems. :( I hope thet get sorts out soon.
ReplyDeleteAs for the thread, I'd suggest ivory or white. Something to pop against. That dark pink fabbie.
Cute cat and great frame job, Jo. :D
A really, really dark purple might work - try a floss toss!
ReplyDeleteI have a shop like that in town - you never know what you might ind in there! I do love a good rummage...
OOOOO I would go for a cream or a really dark raspberry colour... the best way though would be a floss toss as something you wouldn't think would work may be the answer :) and love rummaging too ;) love mouse xxxx
ReplyDeleteJo, I'm having also problems with blogger.com. Comments have been deleted by their system. And I notice that some comments I leave in other blogs seemed disappeared. It's been more than a week since I notice the problems. Last week, I can't even put a new post.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had internet in a few days, so I am not too sure what happened with Blogger. I know I could not access it last week, but then our internet went down for repairs to the main tower (or something technical like that, lol).
ReplyDeleteAs for the fairy, I would go with white on the pink fabric. I think it would just pop. :)
I think I would go for a cream colour. It would stand out beautifully from your pretty fabric.
ReplyDeleteI have lost posts too, in the past few days :(