Pearl Anniversary

My friend's parents have been together for 30 years! And that means its there Pearl Anniversary!
I decided to buy a pearl frame and make an embroidery sample for them as a present. Here's How I got on:

Finished piece in frame.

Close up

Close up of embriodery

Close up of embroidery and embellishment

Close up of frame and edging.

I used different embroidery stitches such as cross stitch, running stitch, back stitch, slip stitch, heringbow stitch. The fabric is linen and I used pearl buttons, beads and silver trinkets to embellish the peice.
Heres a few pictures of the sample in progress:

I made the & way too big!

Writing almost finished!

All done! Just before frame was added!

Well thanks for viewing my blog! :D

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Lobster Skirt

Close up!

Following my post I put up yesterday, I decided to make another skirt, this time out of 1/2 a metre of fabric. The shop assistant at the fabric store said it wouldn't work. It sort of has and hasn't....
It's not very floaty but it still looks decent and I can move around in it ok.

To pull the elastic through I tapped the end to a pen lid!

Side seam stitched and ironed out.

Sailor Skirt I made yesterday!

Today's lobster Skirt!

 Here's the blogger who made the tutorial for this skirt!

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1 hour skirt

Me in skirt

Well the weather has been so hot here in Scotland! from 22 to 27 degrees in different areas! Today I spent the afternoon in Melrose and bought a nice naughitcal navy fabric with white printed boats, anchors etc. I then found a pattern on how to get a skirt out of 1 metre (yard) of fabric! Here's the link to the blogger who came up with it!

Basically you get a peice of fabric and you fold it in half long ways. then cut down the fold. then take the two right sides and put them together and pin the two shorter sides together at both sides.
Next sew those sides up but at one side leave a 2 inch gap. fold the bottom hem up and iron and sew. then fold 1cm from the top and iron. Then fold the fabric so that the 2 inch you didnt sew are flat against the fabric.and stitch around. thread some elastic through the tube at the top sew the two ends together and basically that it. (check out Meghan's blog its a lot better than how I'm explaining it :S)

Here are the pics tho:

Close up....

The elastic gathers the fabric in at the waist.

I think I will now be making more skirts!!

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