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I'm hoping to make it into a brooch some time this week

How perfect for Advent!

Gorgeous

Yup, it works as a brooch

Cute!

I second that!

Pretty Christmas brooch, Mabel! The black sweater shows it off well.

Carole

Fabulous.

In the same group on FB where someone posted that picot poinsettia, a lady posted a picture of a little felt Christmas Bunny ornament. I asked whether I could use it and she said yes, so meet Harry! He's a Christmas ornament for my daughter-in-law who had to say goodbye to her (grey) pet rabbit last month.

I couldn't tell from her picture whether hers was a single layer, or double-sided, but I decided to make Harry double-sided anyway. Some of it was a bit of a faff! Worth it though, I hope, although I will tell DIL that if having the ornament on her tree would just make her sad I would keep it and not be offended.

Oh, he's about 8cm tall.

Harry is adorable Mabel! It is always heartbreaking to lose a pet but to receive a thoughtful gift like this will hopefully be a happy reminder for your DIL.

It is thoughtful of you, Mabel. Harry is very cute.

What a little cutie he is Mabel.

Ooooohhh, I love that Brooch Mabel, it looks very effective, well done,


Are there instructions anywhere for it?, I would love to have a go myself (I am not on FB).

Harry is so cute him

Garnet, if you know how to do woven picots (and I think Mary Corbet has a good instruction video on her site - she has good instruction videos for most things ) you can make this brooch (or keep it on the fabric and make it into a card, or an ornament, or whatever).

I started with the French knots because they help me get the scale right (I hadn't worked with this yarn before for embroidery, it's a four-ply crochet yarn): 1 in the middle, 6 around it in a circle. Then four red picot in a cross shape (I mean, pointing north east south west) very close to them. Now push the picots up so you can see the fabric underneath and do four more in the gaps (pointing north-east, south-east etc - sort of on the diagonal). Push those up as well and work four green picots, not too regularly distributed and showing up between the red petals.

To finish as a brooch, buttonhole stitch a small circle around the base of the poinsettia, then cut it out. Now I'll describe not what I did but what I should have done :
Turn the poinsettia over so you're looking at the circle from the back. Fold the left and right side to the middle (sew together if you wish). Put a safety pin on top, horizontally (so positioned left to right) and fold the top and bottom flaps over it and secure. I'm going to FoF about this but here's a sneak preview of my diagram for it:

I love the rabbit ornament and there is no doubt in my mind that it will be a comfort to your DIL. I know that when I lost pets and my DH gave me ornaments that were cat angels looking like that special cat, putting them on the tree was a way of knowing that they are still in our hearts. Very lovely and very special gift.

Carole

Oooohhhh, thank you so much for very detailed instructions Mabel, I have bookmarked them to settle down and have a good read later. I really appreciate your instructions, they are so clear and easy to understand.

You really are a

The tea towel is now officially being used

Beautiful, like all your works.