Wednesday, 9 July 2025

WIPW - Zipped Up and Stuffed

 Work In Progress Wednesday. 


Hexablooms

More flowers, 65 to be exact, have opened up on the ever-growing quilt flimsy.




 
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

It's COMPLETED!

The cushion is now assembled. The fastener is stitched in place and zipped up. The cushion is stuffed with a large pillow AND a woollen blanket that was hibernating in the closet. 

Finally, the cushion, which features the first 300 stitches from Sunday Stitch School, is now chilling out on the daybed. 


Flip it over to see the reverse side.


This is definitely a 'look, but don't touch' cushion and nothing to lean back against. All those blue sequins will prick your back for sure. 

No, you had much better study the various stitches and celebrate the loveliness of embroidery.



Birthday Card

The birthday card I showed a blown-up version of last week looks like this.


I used three pieces of machine-made lace. One, the hat, I coloured with fabric crayons. The collar and the blue bow tie are simply stitched on. 

The hair was made from a silky synthetic fibre I once bought in the UK. I wound it round a bamboo skewer and ironed it till it became a long cork screw curl. 


It was then cut into several sections and stitched on before I placed the hat on top.

The face was drawn with felt-tip pens, and the cheeks were blushed with ink from a red pencil.

It was fun and easy to make this card with materials I had in my stash.



New!
The New Sunday Stitch School Sampler

There are 330 stitches in the Sunday Stitch School collection. 300 are in the cushion as seen above.

The remaining 30, and all the future stitches I have yet to learn, need a place to live. That is why I will start a new stitch sampler on a piece of coarse cotton dyed with indigo.

Here is the blank page!



Mandala

Do you remember the Mandala project? 

It has been taking a long rest in its project box. Now, with the cushion ticked off the list, it is time to progress on this wallhanging. 

The first thing I did was to take a good look and a long think!


First on the list will be to fill in the three remaining voids with knots, and I have to check what type of knot stitches they are, as I have forgotten.

All in all, it has been a very productive week for a change.

1 comment:

Pamela said...

You’ve had a very productive week. The hexagons look great. You must be very happy to see the cushion finished. The birthday card will be appreciated. There are always other projects to fill the time left by the finished ones.