This is the third potholder swap I have taken part in at the Yahoo Mailblocks group. It is a "sane" quilting group but I still find a way to go crazy! lol So, this is the potholder I have made for the swap and I'll be mailing it out to Ramona on Monday. For the center patch I used some cross stitch pansies - my favourite flower. I coffee-dyed the cross stitch piece to make it look a bit more vintage to go with these fun fabrics I got from Connecting Threads. For further embellishment I only added a lace motif and two seams: one of buttonhole half circles and one of ric rac held in place by chain stitch. Both seams were done in blue pearl cotton. After all, a potholder is supposed to be utilitarian! I so enjoyed making this and think I should find time to make some for myself now as well. I think they would look very cheery in the kitchen. I might wait til dd moves out again though - she is famous for setting the potholders on fire! lol
So, here it is... finished! Once again, this was a workshop taught by Kim Beamish. I love her projects- they are such fun stitches. Managed to frame this one myself with a thrift store frame complete with matts that I repurposed and I am very pleased with how it turned out. I will be stitching this again because I messed up several times and want to do it again and get it right. Even with the mistakes I made though - I love it!
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