Hosted by Rachel the Ten Hour Stitcher
This SAL is designed to motivate us all to do something with that box of Finished pieces instead of just storing them under the bed. We will all be linking up on Rachel's blog on or after the 10th of each month (10 Hour Stitcher - 10th of the month).
After the excitement of last month and an early appearance of an FFO, we are back to the usual "let's make the 9th FFO Day".
I managed to frame two pieces, one is an older finish which was waiting for the right frame and the other is a fresh finish from the end of August.
Here's Autumn In The Square from Just Nan:
I managed to frame two pieces, one is an older finish which was waiting for the right frame and the other is a fresh finish from the end of August.
Here's Autumn In The Square from Just Nan:
That's a bit blurry but the colours are accurate.
Here's a close-up so you can see the sweet little hedgehog button I used instead of the charm in the centre:
One change I made from the original was to alternate red and grey squirrels around the edge of the design.
The next piece is also a Just Nan, this is Mermaid Heart:
and my ongoing quest to get a decent colour-match to the fabric, this is a skein of DMC 926 which is the same colour as the fabric. Go and get your 926 and then you will see how inaccurate the photos are!
Here's an update on one from July, this is also a Just Nan! Tea with Honey which has travelled it's way onto Mary to stitch. I managed to get a little teaset from a doll's house company and stick the pieces on to some flat-topped pins to hold them in place:
Finally, here's one that will hopefully be an FFO by next month. Another Just Nan! This is Scream House. Here are the four external walls that now have pumpkin beads added to the fences:
I didn't have the special stripy beads Nan used so I just used two slightly different orange beads from my stash:
Here's the piece charted for the base, but I'm going to use it for the inside floor as I'm not making the pumpkin pincushion.
Look at that - a whole post of Just Nan!
Autumn In The Square is beautiful Jo. So is Mermaid Heart. But Tea With Honey!! I love that adorable little tea set you acquired for it! Perfect!!
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ReplyDeleteHello Jo: All your designs are wonderful, what a great idea to add the tea set, perfect finish to the Tea With Honey design.
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Catherine
Always lovely stitching at your blog. Love it all of course. Missed you.
ReplyDeleteThese projects are so beautiful, I especially love the one with the tea set.
ReplyDeleteYou're really going all out with your Just Nans recently! They all look awesome though. Love the tiny tea set you found for Tea with Honey!
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