Snowy stitching and a fair!

I was delighted to get a stall for this Sunday at Gainsborough Old Hall Christmas Fair.

 

It’s a big new thing for me but I am looking forward to chatting to people about my upcycled and hand made jewellery and hopefully selling some!

So this week it will be a mad rush to get everything organised and to finish off some pieces of jewellery that have been put to one side for various reasons, one of those being my snowy stitching.  One of our local churches has a Festival of Trees organised by the Rotary Club every Christmas. Organisations in the town and surrounding area put together Christmas trees decorated in such a way as to reflect their organisation as well as being Christmassy. This year is the first year that Scunthorpe Embroiderers’ Guild has had a tree and in September, Ruth, our chair, gave us all a plastic hoop with the simple instruction to stitch something suitable. I went for a mixture of blue and white fabrics and a snow/snowflakes theme.

The big snowflake is crocheted in coton a broder and stitched down with lazy daisy stitches at the points to finish it off.

The commercial embroidered silk got a bit of a make over with back stitch outlining and french knot snow.

Then I had fun with stitch combinations to create snowflakes. Mostly fly stitch and straight stitches.

A seeding of smaller snowflakes in straight stitch and french knots on a metallic fabric.

And finished with a couched down border of a fancy white thread.

It all ended up being a bit last minute as usual, so I don’t have any photos of the finished. neatened version but I really like the way it turned out in the end and looking forward to seeing it on the tree next month. Back to the fair prep for me now!