Mabel's Hardanger - thread closed

[meerkat]

That design is amazing Mabel. I love it!

[Nachstenliebe]

I hope everything works out getting framed in time!
Faith

[Mrs Milkybar Kid]

That frozen flower is soooooo impressive !

[3madspaniels]

I seem to have missed this thread for quite a while, and just had a good nose through. Beautiful designs as always. I had my eye on Frozen Flower from your "comin soon" part of the website, but never realised it was going to be 3d. I'm completely blown away!

[wendywombat]

The sheen on that Flower makes it so life-like!!


Not bad pricing for framing etc... Well done!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Yay, they got it done in time !

This morning I set about lacing the sampler -- I didn't find a dark lavender felt, but found a dark blue that worked all right. I laced the stitching over mount board, wadding and felt, and it took me about an hour and 15 minutes, which I was quite pleased with



Then we got the call that the frame and mont were ready, so picked them up and put the whole thing together -- the frame is actually a bit more silvery than it looks in the pic, it's a sort of silvery wash over a dull gold ground, if that makes sense



So it's ready to take to the celebrations tomorrow!

[XandraS]

Beautiful framing job Mabel, such a lovely gift

[karen4bells]

It's perfection and will be a very nice gift!! Great finish!!

[jocellogirl]

That's beautiful. What a lovely gift.

[meerkat]

Very neat lacing Mabel and your design looks gorgeous its mount and frame.

[Rose]

It looks gorgeous in that frame!!!!!

[OctoberLace]

Beautiful, Mabel! Do you just do lacing for your framing, or do you also pin your pieces? Theresa

[Mabel Figworthy]

Theresa, I'm not sure what you mean by pinning unless you mean pin it to the mount board in preparation for lacing? In that case, yes, I do. I mark the centres of the four sides of the mount board (or foam core), then with four pins I count out fromt he centre of each side of the embroidery. Then I stick those pins into the centres of the mount board, and then with more and more pins I work towards the corners, making sure that I keep the grain of the fabric along the edge of the mount board. Then when I've laced it I remove the pins, and tighten the lacing, then fasten off. Hope that makes sense

[OctoberLace]

Mabel, your response is exactly what I was looking for. I want to try doing my own prep work and this is very helpful! Theresa

[Mrs Milkybar Kid]

Beautiful Mabel - wonderful frame choice, it really sets the piece off!

[rcperryls]

That is absolutely beautiful in that frame. What a lovely gift it will be.

Carole

[wendywombat]

Just Perfect!

The frame and mount suit it really well.



I'm sure that the recipients will be thoroughly pleased with it!

[Cecilia]

Just catching up with this thread; love the house, love the one with the 3D flower and love the anniversary sampler.

[Carole]

That 3D flower is amazing. Love the house too, that is really pretty.

This thread is always full of loveliness

[tiffstitch]

Beautiful!! They will love it. I'm so happy you were able to finish on time.