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MSM Swap Round Two: Place mats and Embroidery

I have the week off work this week - heaven. My Mum has come to stay and we're indulging our hobbies: Mum does water colour painting and I do patchwork!

Today's focus was the embroidery on the place mats I'm making for round two of the Modern She Made Swap. I'm making a set of four place mats that together make a star within a star within a star....


Two of the place mats will have an embroidered panel and two will have applique, and today I finished off one of each. Firstly, here's the applique


And here is the embroidery:



It's my own design and drawn freehand. I'm using DMC threads to coordinate with the fabrics, and a mixture of backstitch, french knots, satin stitch, chain stitch, running stitch and cross stitch. I then added a few hexagons - the edges are 1/4" long. Nice and fiddly!

I need some more supplies before I can finish these off. But I have plenty of other things to be playing with for the rest of my week off! I picked the fabrics for my Hoop La La swap item:
I'll be adding a tiny piece of black to these nice citrussy colours - if my idea works!

I hope my partners like them!
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Sharon - Lilabelle Lane said…
You are so lever. Looking or ward to seeing what eventuates for the hoop-la-la swap. Hugs
30 October 2012 at 00:37
Karen M said…
Are you actually going to let people eat on those beautiful placemats? They are worthy of being hung for people to admire. Very pretty.
30 October 2012 at 11:01
Nic said…
They look great. Hope you're enjoying your week off
30 October 2012 at 21:23
Cherie said…
Wow I totally want to be your partner! Those are such awesome embroidery designs....but alas I did't ask for placemats...
30 October 2012 at 21:32
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