I've finally finished sewing the blue Hydrangeas cross-stitch design from Veronique Enginger's book 'L'Herbier du Jardin au Point de Croix'... it's only taken me well over a year to stitch it... well, the shades of blue were very similar, so that's my excuse!
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| My stitching |
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| Cover of book by Veronique Enginger |
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| Close up of my stitching |
Now I'm wondering what to do with it.. I've got some lovely fabrics in shades of blues so I was thinking I might make it into a cushion with a patchwork style border. Patchwork seems to be quite fashionable lately and well I can't say I'm an expert but I could make a simple square border to frame my stitching..a bit like the patchwork quilts below..
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| Blue and white quilt |
Blue hydrangeas are such lovely flowers - the blue is quite unusual in flowers and you can't go wrong with a blue and white colour scheme :-)
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| Close up of Hydrangea flowers |
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| Blue and white china |
These are my fabrics that I'm thinking of using for the patchwork border:
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| Shades of blue |
I found the fabric below in a charity shop and was thinking I could maybe incorporate this into the patchwork - it's a tablecloth and it's got little printed crosses on it that imitate cross-stitch. It's very sweet - but maybe I'll save it for something else, I'm not sure yet....I might stick to a totally blue and white colour scheme, I'll see how it works out!
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| Imitation cross-stitch on old tablecloth |
One last lovely blue and white image... :-)
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| Hyacinths and blue and white china |
Hi Susan. I was just looking at your hydrangeous cross stitch and I'm wondering "did she ever finish it?" I'd love to see what you did .
ReplyDeleteHi Susan, I finished stitching the cross stitch part of it, but still haven't got around to making it up into a cushion... but your comment reminded me about it! I'm going to a stitching group soon, so I think I'll see if I can take it along and do something with it - I've just got to find it first... I can't remember where I put it! I've usually got various sewing projects on the go and sometimes I forget where I've put stuff!
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