It is once again time for a Work In Progress Wednesday report.
Mourning Card
A dear friend recently lost her husband, and it felt right to send her a fabric card.
I used a remnant from one of my mother's most elegant evening gowns - a piece of rich blue silk.
On it I stitched stars with metallic thread:
TAST #77 Woven Cross,
and Sunday Stitch School #176 Buttonhole Cross Stitch, #208 Star Filling Stitch and #332 Irregular Algerian Eyelet Star Stitch.
The embroidery was mounted onto a piece of card and then inserted into a window card. This card had an oval hole, but I cut it into a heart shape.
Mandala
I have completed the garland!
Up next is adding something yellow!
Hexablooms
As the sweltering summer heat has subsided a bit, I replaced a thin, airy piece of fabric that has hung across the glass wall all summer with my Morning Glory quilt.
If you remember, it is a Log Cabin design, in lovely aqua and teal with golden hearth centres and plenty of metallic embroidery quilting.
The Morning Glory quilt was meant to be a bed cover, but I usually hang it so the morning light can play with the metallic thread quilting.
There is a problem, though, it is too small to cover up the glass wall it is displayed against.
That is why I want the Hexabloom quilt to be larger. I needed to see if the width was OK.
I simply hung it with pegs from the same wooden bar as the Morning Glory quilt.
Looking at it carefully, I think I will add one more column on the right to fully cover the glass wall behind.
This means making more hexagon blocks!
Well, before I do that, I will add more of the blocks that I have already prepared, and that will go downward.
Maybe something like this:
Bookmark
This is the front of the 'mysterious' bookmark I have been hiding from you for such a long time.
I found the cross-stitch pattern on the internet. The birthday gal is a friend of cats.
#329 Radiation Stitch (teal), #330 Pueblo Stitch (teal and red) and #331 Astrakhan Velvet Stitch (mustard yellow).
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