Last night I appliqued some petals, some flowers on to my new piece of cloth using the cross stitched piece I showed on here yesterday. There is a certain satisfaction in creating a piece of embroidered cloth and then cutting it up to provide surface embellishment for another piece of self made cloth. It is the fact that it all belongs to you, is personal, created by you every step of the way.
Imagine you densely embroider a six inch square of cotton. You then use it for applique or cutwork, patchwork even. Then ask yourself could you have bought anything that unique. Perhaps you could but I would guess it would cost you an enormous amount of money...so my motto, DIY!
Thanks so much for all the comments and e mails yesterday re my appearance in the book. I consider myself told now.......it won't be put on a shelf it will reside on a table! As for that enabling visitors to see it, one important thing to note...I never have visitors. (not a problem, I prefer a solitary, reclusive existence)
Finally for today (I am on a roll creating my own lace based cloth, itching to do more) thank you for the continued passion for embroider, embellish, create. It is filling up nicely now and I can confirm that this will be the last run of this class....ever. So another big THANK YOU before it bows out.