2016 Mini Projects

[mauveme]

Another beauty. My god Mabel, your needles must be smoking.

[Mabel Figworthy]

it's more that when I do a lot of one design (or very similar ones) after a while I can do them without looking at the chart much, so they go very quickly.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Number 4. I'm hoping to make at least 8 in total. Last year they were very popular and sold out in the first hour, so as many as possible really!

[mauveme]

Gorgeous. Mable, the energizer bunny has nothing on you,. You keep going and going and going......

[wendywombat]

Funny how the pattern looks so different when the thread colours change.

These will sell so well.

[Mabel Figworthy]

3rd of a set with small leaf corner motifs:



Next is a set of three with heart motifs

[Jewell Stitcher]

Wow these are all so beautiful Mabel

[Squirrel]

They are so gorgeous Mabel and will make a wonderful coaster set.

[Serinde]

Mabel, these are lovely. May I ask what colour thread you are using for coaster 3?

[kandifloss]

Oh my, these are just sooo beautiful Mabel. You must spend a lot time stitching away making these, they are great

Kandi

[Mabel Figworthy]

Serinde, the colour in all the others is Caron Wildflowers but Small Leaf #3 usesCaron Impressions, their silk/wool blend; that particular one is 038 Morning Mist.

Here are two more, with hearts in the corners; like all the others they use Wildflowers. There will be one more in that set but I don't think I'll manage tonight as I need to pack my bag, and make sure I've got everything I need for the workshops (last time I forgot the double-sided tape for the people who finished within the workshop time and wanted to put their card together )

I'm rather pleased with the way the nutmeg stitches turned out - it took a bit of manipulating, but they came out nicely two-tone

[Squirrel]

Love the hearts on the border, and gosh they are all so beautiful. What a gorgeous set they are going to be together. Great stitching Mabel.

[karen4bells]

[Mabel Figworthy]

Got some stitching done on the train but not much, so just the one - and it'll be the last one for a bit because I've got a few other things that need putting together before 22nd Oct; after that I'll just try and get as many done as I can

[kandifloss]

Oh my, another pretty one Mabel

[wendywombat]

Oh my, another pretty one Mabel

Very pretty indeed!!

[Serinde]

And you did something different with your little sun in the middle -- two colours! Wonderful!

[Mabel Figworthy]

The three coasters with the heart motifs all use nutmeg stitch in the middle, which is worked in two passes; I use the same variegated thread as for the chain stitch and border but fiddle it in such a way that the first pass uses one colour of the variegation, and the second pass uses another so here it's pink and almost-white, in the two previous ones it's brown & green, and green & blue/turquoise.

[wendywombat]

So clever. That's what I like about variegated threads. Never the same twice, but you can "engineer" the colours.

[Squirrel]

That is beautiful too Mabel and what a lot of fun you are having with the variegated threads.