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That design is amazing Mabel. I love it!

I hope everything works out getting framed in time!
Faith

That frozen flower is soooooo impressive !

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!

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


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

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!

Beautiful framing job Mabel, such a lovely gift

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

That's beautiful. What a lovely gift.

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

It looks gorgeous in that frame!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

Carole

Just Perfect!

The frame and mount suit it really well.



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

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

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

This thread is always full of loveliness

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