Heart Tuffet Finished

C’est fini!

It took me a couple of hours, but I finished my Heart Tuffet a couple of days ago. I had envisioned a finish for this one and I think I managed to carry it off quite well, if I don’t say so myself. When I first saw the design, I knew it wouldn’t be a biscornu with that heart in the center. Because the design was square, I immediately thought of doing a mattress pincushion finish. Even though I had never done one before, I had an idea of how I could construct it fairly easily. From there, my vision included pulling the centers together like you would with a biscornu, except this one would get pulled together by stitching around the square in the center of the design over which the heart is stitched. I had a feeling that it would produce a really neat effect this way, if everything came together as planned. It turns out, my vision was an accurate one and it worked out just as I had hoped it would. Nary a catch anywhere, honestly. I didn’t bother looking up how to construct a mattress pincushion because I had an idea in my head of how to do it. I just Google’d it and looked through a couple of tutorials and it turns out that I constructed mine in a very similar fashion to other people. I actually saw some instructions that gave me an idea of how to do mine better the next time. I enjoyed this type of finish so much that there will definitely be a next time.

Well, I’ve bored you enough, so here is the content that you are really more interested in – the pictures!

First up in the first contest photo, so it’s a montage of the 3 photos I selected to keep. The photos following it are the individual close-ups:

And then the second contest photo (of the opposite side) and its component close-up shots:

Tomorrow’s post will be about some lovely squishy gifty mail that was waiting for me when I returned from San Francisco. I need better lighting in order to show the colors properly, so hopefully I’ll be able to capture some in full daylight tomorrow, as my thank you post is well overdue!