Mabel's designs

[Mabel Figworthy]

Here is the project I was working on in that car - it's a Celtic cross inspired by the service sheet of the church we visit while in Llandrindod Wells (hence I've called it Llandrindod )
More info about the design and the stitches etc on FoF

[rcperryls]

I love what you do!! This is going to be stunning!

Carole

[Podolyanka]

To begin with, thank you very much for sharing the story which is really interesting. I like the project, the threads you have chosen for it and your absolutely perfect stitching. Happy stitching, Mabel!

[Mabel Figworthy]

The linen I'm using for the Llandrindod cross is a surface embroidery fabric. It's got a count (40ct) but it's not really meant for counted work. But that doesn't mean you can't.... (after all, I'm sure the ladies who did the old-fashioned Hardanger in Norway centuries ago didn't distinguish between counted and non-counted fabric )
More info on FoF.

[rcperryls]

Stunning. Amazing. Beautiful.

Carole

[Squirrel]

Totally wonderful for sure Mabel.

[poppy]

Beautiful crosses, Mabel

[karen4bells]

Such amazing projects and stitching Mabel!!

[Garnet]

Oh I love the Celtic Cross Mabel, the colours you have chosen for it are perfect, and so beautifully stitched as always.

I cannot get over the tiny size of the Hardanger cross - amazing

[Mabel Figworthy]

When I'd finished the little willow tree I wasn't quite happy with one of the branches - it had too much "flat" light brown in it. So I added a few medium brown stitches and am much happier with it now. I framed it using the card-circle-pushed-in-the-back-of-the-hoop method.
More about how the design developed on FoF.

[rcperryls]

It was lovely before and its even more so now!!!

Carole

[wendywombat]

It was lovely before and its even more so now!!!

Carole

Yes, indeed it is!!


You said that it might become a 'Mabel Kit' if you got the permission from the designer. Any update on that?

[Mabel Figworthy]

Yes, the copyright holder is happy for me to do with it what I please as long as the embroidery is "not too identical" to the original logo (can you be a little bit identical?). As I used only one part of it, and changed what was an outline with plain straight lines for the hanging branches into what you see above, I think we can safely say it's not identical

[poppy]

Beautiful finish!

[Garnet]

Wow Mabel, I thought your tree was beautiful before, now it's perfectly beautiful and perfectly stitched.

[KarinvdB]

Beautiful work! Love that my country gave you the inspiration and permission In turn you’re inspiring me with your use of the hoop to frame it, I really like that idea.

[Squirrel]

It definitely has made the willow show itself off more clearly. Well Done Mabel

[Serinde]

It's astonishing how a few well-placed stitches changes the whole look of that branch. Wonderful.

[Mabel Figworthy]

When I finished the teeny weeny Hardanger cross, Serinde asked whether I was going to turn it into a pendant. It's a little larger than anything I've turned into pendants before, but I suddenly remembered there were two larger pendants in a big box of stitching stuff someone had passed on to me because his mother could no longer stitch.

They've lost their perspex insert (if they ever had one) and they are not deep enough to fold the fabric around a card template, so I ironed dark grey vilene to the back, cut it exactly to size and fitted it under the bezel. The four "feet" of the bevel actually push the fabric in a little bit and make it a little convex, which looks rather nice !

[wendywombat]

Now that does make a very attractive pendant, Mabel.

I like the idea of using a dark vilene to back it. Now that would work in those acrylic coasters instead of card wouldn't it!