A green velvet brooch.

The body of this brooch, a Christmas gift for a family friend, was made from green and beige tweed fabric, with a green velvet heart appliqued to it. The velvet heart was then decorated with french knots and glass beads. I also added a little trail of beads from the bottom of the heart. I used a kilt pin-style brooch pin.

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Louise

Happy New Year and Miss Marple Scarves

First of all Happy New Year. I hope 2016 brings you everything you hope it too, and you don't have much of the things you don't want it to bring!

These two scarves were made for Christmas presents for my Mum and sister. I used Skiff's Miss Marple Vintage Scarf pattern, available for free on Ravelry and I used Stylecraft 4ply acrylic yarn. It's a fairly simple pattern and didn't take me too long to knit both scarves. 

I made a matching brooch for each scarf using wool fabric that I embroidered with web stitches and french knots and a scattering of beads. Both scarves were appreciated.

There's a few more Christmas makes to share with you, but I've already started on my 2016 makes, which I'll also share with you soon.

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Louise

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of my blog readers🎄

Thank you for following during 2015 and I hope you'll join me on my continuing making journey in 2016💖

A fox and a stag

 

I made these for a birthday present for a friend who likes foxes and stags. The brooch was made from felt.

The stag was embroidered using chain stitch onto a corner of a vintage cotton napkin. I backed it with a piece of fabric from my sample box. It can be hung up using the vintage lace that's attached to the piece with a 1930s button. 

I'm hoping to start on a series of these textile pieces in the new year. 

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Louise

Christmas decorations

I've been making a lot of Christmas decorations lately and these are just a small selection. All of these have images from vintage Christmas cards, printed on fabric and backed with matching fabric and some have been decorated with beads and sequins. 

All of these are for sale at the Seagrass Gallery in Hoylake, but there's still a few available in the Elsie May and Bertha folksy store.

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Louise