Inspiration has struck!

The last Tattershall piece is underway and coming out exactly as I wanted, even though I wasn’t sure what I did want! I’d set my heart on using a transfer I’d made from a photo in the booklet of some of Tattershall’s bricks but it was what to do with it that had me baffled. Then I thought back to the first visit with my youngest and I immediately recalled the rain storm which we sat out under one of the trees by the shop. Leaves and raindrops, I remembered and it all fell into place.

The background is some more of the batik I did at our last Guild meeting and the tiny leaves are cut out of some hand painted fabric backed with stabiliser.

I’m stitching them down with split stitch veins in fine silk before I add the raindrops.

I’ve also done a fair bit more on the Bright Pyramids needle book. The double dark blue line is the spine and I’m already onto the last hearts and flowers panel. After that I just have four more rows of long-legged cross stitch:  two vertical and two horizontal along the whole width to do before making it up.

Am still swearing but less often, which must mean I am improving.

I made a little pair of upcycled butterfly earrings recently which sold to a friend almost as soon as I’d posted about them on Instagram.

I then had a lot of fun turning a card booklet which had contained a free sample tea bag into bespoke packaging for them!

The felt on the left is to cushion them when the booklet is shut.

Contact details on the back and a ribbon attached to the spine with a miniature paper fastener as a closure.

A very satisfying little make.