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Saturday, 9 May 2009

Mini Sampler Brooches

Quite often I get started on a project, get absorbed with thinking about colours and shapes and design details, and then something happens to distract me and it ends up languishing in one of my "in progress" boxes for weeks or even months.

Yesterday I turned my attention to one of these abandoned projects (started in February) - cross stitch sampler brooches!I knew I wanted to have the needlework "framed" with matching felt but wasn't sure quite how I wanted it to look until yesterday when I suddenly thought: ooh, frilly edges, I wonder...
These are still at the prototype stage and the frills especially need a bit of tweaking but oh what fun it is experimenting! The teal version of "make do and mend" is probably my favourite thus far:
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9 comments:

  1. Conversation Pieces9 May 2009 at 15:17

    Wow, that's weird – I'm in the middle of drafting a wee post on samplers... will be including yours now :)

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  2. Josie9 May 2009 at 20:43

    I am SO in love with the purple make do and mend!

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  3. Anonymous9 May 2009 at 21:42

    These are AMAZING! I love them. So glad you got round to working on them again :)

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  4. The Dotty One9 May 2009 at 22:00

    These are sooo cute - such an effective idea. Love it :o)

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  5. Swirlyarts10 May 2009 at 12:52

    LOVE the book nerd one!!

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  6. Anonymous10 May 2009 at 12:53

    Hi there. As your blog is so fab, I've decided to give you a Lemonade Award :)

    Come view on my blog, congrats! xx

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  7. Anonymous10 May 2009 at 14:39

    Oh Lupin, how you toy with my emotions. You've fairly stolen my heart with that book nerd brooch.

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  8. Irene11 May 2009 at 05:39

    I am soo ready to buy a bunch of those!

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  9. x vInTaGe VioLeT x14 May 2009 at 23:16

    cool brooches!
    i have stacks of aida left from my long discarded cross stitch addiction!

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