I was so excited last night that I stayed up to put the last beads in. This piece has history. It was started by a member of our embroidery guild (Central Taranaki) who died at the start of 2010. Last year her husband gifted me with her stitch bags and supplies and this was in it. My night class had been stitching Laura Perins Floral Ribbons and Victorian Ribbons and I was about to start one of them. I decided that I would finish this piece and make it up.
At the weekend we
had our regional embroidery retreat and I decided that I would take this piece
and stitch everything that needed to be done except the beads. That would be my
stitching for Monday night class and this piece would be done. It worked but
after a lengthy discussion on the colour of the beads, opal disappeared, the
greens were wrong, the pink was too wishy washy, we decided on silver pearl and
raspberry. I did most of it during the class time but after all left I sat on the
couch, watched my favourite programme “Person of Interest” and sewed on the
final beads. It was 10.45 pm when I took out the pins holding it on and took
the photo.
My decision now
is what type of bag. I have been making snappy bags and don’t really need any
more for myself so think I would like to make this into a pocket for a bigger
bag that will hold a 14 inch frame. This may be the go but now to find material
(is there any in the stash) and a pattern (I have a book).
The next exciting thing that has happened is my dad had his birthday yesterday and the birthday surprise was my brother arriving home at 9pm last night. Very exciting.
2 comments:
show and tell table next guild meeting will be the place to show it off well done.
hoping to get the bag made but when i went to get all the materials i had no pattern. Hopefully tonight marilyn will have it.
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