Ooooh, what did you use to create the spiral in the middle?

@NatureMC@mastodon.online thank you ☺️

Oooh wonderful! I’ve seen YouTube videos of people making these (or something similar. I want to make one at some point, but instead of a scroll I’m hoping to use a darning mushroom

Duuuuude, that’s so totally rad! (Yes I’ve got Crush’s voice from Finding Nemo in my head every time I look at your cross stitch turtles haha 😆).

This year the craft group that I’m a member of is working on a year long project: a slow stitch fabric book.I found this gorgeous old secondhand hardback book at the op shop that I thought would be perfect for the project.

Last year we made our title page to start us off - the general theme of the book being “A Journey Through Stitching”.
Each month, the ladies who are running the project give the group a prompt to create a page around. So far the prompts have been:
- Flowers/floral
- Lace
- Suffolk puffs/yoyo’s

Our latest prompt is Mushrooms.

As I’m predominantly a Cross stitcher I’ll be trying to incorporate a small piece of cross stitch on each page.
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@tree_queer@pixelfed.scot haha no. That would take forever. But a patchwork wedding dress would look pretty interesting

So I have this old white dressing gown that has a few holes in it and doesn’t really provide that much warmth. I was going to take it to the op shop or just throw it out but then I came across a video on YouTube that inspired me to try turning it into a patchwork jacket…(get ready for the twist) without using a machine. All stitching done by hand sewing 😁
I may be crazy and it might be a complete failure, but I want to give it a go.
You can see I’ve already cut the bottom of the dressing gown off, leaving it my desired length for the jacket.
Here goes nothin’.
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YouTube video that served as inspiration:
How To Make An Upcycled Slow Stitch Patchwork Reversible Jacket Without a Sewing Machine

Channel name: tmyers handmade
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Oh I love this so much 😍

Beautiful! 😍 I can totally see this being added to a wedding dress

Wooooow. How long did that one take?

BIRDIE!!! 🥰

Grind coffee beans, not human bones. #dailyaffirmation

Started a new mini cross stitch recently. I love working on little projects like these on my lunch breaks.
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Finished this piece for my friend’s mum. She loved it 🥰

This was also my first time finishing a piece using a wooden hoop to display my creation in.

For backing I used cream coloured felt which I blanket stitched on (forgot to take a pic of this).
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Been teaching myself how to make fabric yo-yo’s/Suffolk puffs.
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Looks wonderful. Any idea what you want to turn it into?

Cuuute 🥰

Progress on my current WIP
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Throwback to 2017 when I stitched this piece and gave it to mum for Mother’s Day.
Yes, I gave it to her like this and she had to then turn it into a cushion herself because I didn’t know how to, but it’s the thought that counts, right?
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I find this flatlay so aesthetically pleasing. The gradient of colours just makes my brain happy 🌈
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