Carousel Cards

We started back after the summer with some Carousel Cards. The original versions of these were based on circles, but they work well as squares too and that's what we did. Any size square will work, but most of these started as 12 by 12 in card sheets.

Beryl

                                            

Jekatarina

Michelle

Nadi (who used a letter stitched as part of our plastic canvas project)

Parvin

Shobha

Tricia

Plastic Canvas

 We had a play with plastic canvas a few weeks ago, but as the projects take longer than some to complete. I'm only getting around to posting them now.

Jyotsna chose to make bookmarks as gifts

Nadi chose to use a Mary Hickmot pattern and turn the result into a card. And then she went on to make more!

Parvin made a monogram as a gift

Shobha also added her design to a card

Tricia made several things. The boxes and coasters used Etsy patterns, while the needlecase was kept simple and geometric.

Plastic Canvas Trinket Boxes

 We've spent several meetings making plastic canvas trinket boxes using a variety of stitching materials - embroidery cotton, crochet yarn and double knitting on 7count plastic canvas. There's quite a lot of work in these, so it's taking a while to finish, but we've got some to share.

Beryl

Beryl used yarn to create two cube-shaped boxes with a geometric pattern.

Dominique

Dominique used two patterns adapted from Mary Hickmott's Easy as ABC - a booklet of patterns for making baby blocks or a beautiful baby blanket, but perfect for these boxes.

Nadi

Nadi adapted a pattern from One Nighters (Pastimes) by Janet Crews Designs for the butterfly, but designed her own pattern for the sides. She used single strand cross stitch and half-cross stitch on the top and double strand long stitch for the sides. And then adapted a couple of patterns from the Mary Hickmott book.

Nadi

Shlpa

Sue

Sue has used a lovely mix of stitches in her own design and finished it off with some lovely pearls!

                                    

Tricia

Tricia used 6 strands of embroidery cotton for this box. The rainbow was adapted from Mary Hickmott's Easy as ABC booklet. She was using up some very old thread, so the rainbow theme suited perfectly! The top and sides were done in cross stitch, and the bottom in a double strand of long stitch.

Emboldened by the small size, Tricia decided to do something bigger!

She used two strands of acrylic double knitting yarn in a long stitch pattern. Because of the size of this one, she added some grey board under the felt for added rigidity, and filled the box with threads, ready for our next project.

And another in the original size, but using Anchor Artiste metallic thread.