Saturday, 10 October 2020

A Small Finish

 Hello blogging friends,

I´m making very slow progress on just about everything at the moment.  My start on Christmas stitching is non-existent and my trying to finish a small embroidered project for Halloween is proving all uphill.

I think I´ll put the blame on the Coronavirus, which is getting me down and when you try to buy some fun fabric for Halloween and the two local needlework shops can only show you plain black antibacterial fabric for face masks, it doesn´t help to cheer you up or encourage inspiration.

Today I´m joining Rachel of  Ten Hour Stitcher for the Fully Finished Gallery SAL as I completely finished this little mermaid pocket for a friend of a friend who had seen one of the  mermaid scissor pouches that I made years ago and wanted one for her eye glasses.

A tiny applique mermaid and different embroidery stitches on a very difficult to photograph fabric. The back also has a little embroidery.

This being a pink mermaid, I made the lining  with pink satin and added a few seed beads to the frame


I still have quite a few of these embroideries done from time back, they are all different and  I have been intermittently working on them for months now to use up the remains of the pretty fabric. I will show them all properly in a separate post.


I´m still waiting for the metal frames to arrive so I can finish the pouches off properly.  Hope they arrive before Christmas.


I was going to show my finished curtains in this post but the FFGS is not for sewing, so I´ll leave them until my next post,  Thank you for stopping by and looking.

Sheryl

 

20 comments:

  1. Beautiful stitching Sheryl! Your mermaids are really cute! Lovely fabric!
    Every year I realise too late I have nothing suitable for Halloween makes 🎃 👻 But I am stitching a couple of little Halloween pieces on Aida! Look forward to seeing your Halloween makes.
    Hugs,
    Barbara xxx 😊🤗

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  2. What beautiful work. that fabric is perfect! Do you add anything other than embroidery to the detail? It is magnificent!

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  3. Wow, those are adorable! I love those mermaids!

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  4. Oh Sheryl your work is always so very beautiful .
    Love the mermaids ,just wonderful .
    Enjoy your Sunday.

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  5. Those little mermaids are delightful. They'll make charming little gifts!

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  6. I love this! I can’t believe you have several finished pieces just waiting for creating small treasures. Your friend is so lucky! The pink mermaid is delightful and your finished piece just amazing! I think the entire world is a bit Covid fatigued!

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  7. What an exquisite finished project Sheryl. I think the Coronavirus is getting us all down a bit but, it is nice to have projects to work on. I look forward to seeing what you do with those other beautifully stitched panels too! Christine xx

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  8. So pretty Sheryl - is that fabric velvet? Anyway, gorgeous finish. Do you have much covid in your area? Not much here in the Dordogne but there elsewhere in France. xx

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  9. What beautiful embroidery, these make wonderful cases for glasses. I wouldn't stuff them in my handbag though, these are for careful use at home only!

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  10. So beautiful. Your embroidery is lovely.

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  11. Your mermaid pouches are very very pretty! The fabric and design are perfect complements!

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  12. Nice work Sheryl, your mermaids look very pretty. How neat to have embroidery done on printed backround fabric.

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  13. Oh wow to the fabric, the embroidery and the finishing! Thanks for showing this in the FFG SAL, and hopefully we'll see the others soon. :)

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  14. That fabric is stunning, as is your stitching! I love surface embroidery and really thinkg I need to try it some day, it's so pretty and delicate.

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  15. Fantastyczna praca! Bardzo, bardzo piękna!😍

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  16. OMGoodness, Mermaids everywhere! They are all so lovely and the one you finished as a case is just stunning. I love how you changed the colours and made them all unique.

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