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\nThis one will go on Terry’s desk at work. I chose overdyed floss that I had on hand for the hearts and added the personalization like what you might see carved into a tree trunk.<\/p>\n
It looks better in person. The fabric is a crisper antique white and the black of the frame looks really snappy. But, I am left to the whims of my scanner. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
The second one is by Cindy Valentine Designs. It was called Christmas Boxtop (I believe), but I totally personalized the colors by choosing an overdyed silk for the border and then pulling out solid colored silks to match. I finished this one a couple of years ago, but never mounted it in its boxtop because I didn’t like the fabric I chose to underlay the hardanger section. I finally soaked off the glue keeping the underlayment in place and replaced it with a darker color. And now it’s all done and mounted in a whitewashed finished Sudberry House box.
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\n Now to find a use for it. Perhaps it will hold my used flosses in my stitching corner before they are put away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finally framed these two last night. I had been waiting on them because I was going to lace them. Well, I finally got tired of waiting for myself and, instead, I used glue. I figured they weren’t important enough … Continue reading