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wendywombat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:56 pm Brilliant!
So pleased that he won't be consigned to the storage drawer.

I agree!! He is too handsome to be hidden away!

Carole

DH is very much in favour of the not-drawer idea

Good Man!!

Well Done he looks gotgeous.

Finally got round to pinning him - if the fabric is still nice and taut tomorrow I'll start lacing.

Them's a lotta pins. But not too near the corner. Presume there is a reason?

It's true there is a little more distance between the last pins and the corners than between the pins along the sides, but when you get close to the corners the two pins coming from right angles (bad description but I hope you understand what I mean) tend to quarrel inside the foam board...
Sewing up the corners with ladder stitch and pulling the very tip back in (see pic below) generally tidies up any slackness resulting from this

Just wanted to say that the photographs you take and use to explain things are just about the best tools I have ever had for learning!

Carole

Thank you these will go with the article for Stitch as well (or at least I've sent them to the editor, who will decide whether to use them) so I'm glad to know they are clear!

Please tell me you didn't use the curved needle to do the ladder stitch! I will feel entirely inadequate!

Sorry, I did - it actually makes it easier once you're used to it! (and you get a LOT of practice during the Certificate...)

Slip-stitching the sateen on as well:

I have a curved needle...always wondered what use it had. It was in my late MIL's sewing box. I wonder if she used it?
Now I know what it's purpose is!! To keep Mabel's Corners tidy!!

Fully laced, with cat (and cat hair, fortunately not visible in this picture)

Another perfect piece of art!!!

Carole

That looks nice, when I saw how good it looks sat there, it made me smile

Jo

Incredible! That horse has real 'movement'

Love it!

Yes it's a very clever design - Helen McCook's with (I can't help myself) a few alterations...

You have done a wonderful job with this, Mabel.

A fabulous finish and it looks so 'at home' sitting there.

Wow, another beautiful work of art.