Hanky 3 is a new one that is printed with flowers, and I don't want to cover these up, if possible, so I'm adding lace in the spaces or using see-through lace. So far, the only embroidery is the pekinese stitch that I've used to attach the line of see-through lace.
Hanky 4 is a new hanky as well, but the cotton it's made from is quite fine. I've done more work on this one. There's a suffolk puff with pools of french knots; a corner of a vintage hanky attached with chain stitch; flower lace attached with backstitch and I've started a line of bullion loops along the edge of the pink lace.
There's still plenty more to do on these hankies.
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Louise
I've finished the embroidery on hankies one and two. They've also been damp-stretched (they were on the damp-stretching board when I photographed them, hence all the pins). As the hankies will be mounted onto the top of a backing fabric I didn't want any holes from damp-stretching on the actual hankies so a basted pieces of cotton around the edges to put the pins in.
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Louise
Picture five shows my first hanky ledger page. I'm going to be using this ledger to explore wedding and mourning hankies, so it's going to be a lot different to the work I'm doing on my hanky cloth.
The first pages show the background that I've created for this ledger (I added the black spots that you can see on the ledger page after I took those pictures, but forgot to take another picture before I started to cut it up.
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Louise
One of the things that we're working on Simply Stitch 5 (SS5) is a hanky cloth. Karen had started using hankies when she was doing some embroidery doodling and the cloth was to be an extension of this work.
This is my first hanky. The first picture shows the hanky with its additions just pinned on. The rest show the embroidery I've been doing on the hanky.
I'm using lady's hankies so this cloth will take a bit of time to complete.
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Louise
A white work hole in a hanky.
Book 30 of 2014.
First batch of christmas decoration makes.
A hanky in the process of embellishment.
Jack looking after my sewing machine.
Online purchases.
Plum crumble.
A background for ledger work.
Teabag carrier for a swap.
I hope your week was productive.
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Louise.
