I “Heart” This Finish!
19 January 2008 16:50 finishing, happy dances
Behold! My first finish of 2008!
Although this little Quaker design stitched up relatively fast and easy, I ran into a small glitch when I was finished with the front side: I didn’t have enough WDW “Azaleas” to stitch the back side!
Nevertheless, I did not panic. I did some quick color matching and came up with some DMC colors (917 and 3836) that would compliment the remnants of the WDW and stitched the back side.
However, I then had to buy some Polyfil before I could do the finishing and after that I had some minor issues with the WDW that I used to stitch with bleeding onto the linen a wee bit. It was nothing a little cold water soak didn’t cure, but it delayed my finishing by a day or so.
Anyway, I just love the simple but inventive way this is finished! Though I wish the “dip” in the heart was a little better defined, I think this heart-shaped pin cushion did turn out quite nicely… Especially since I had never done a whip stitch finished design in anything but a square before!
19 January 2008 at 19:55
Very pretty finish, your adjustments look great.
20 January 2008 at 06:43
I heart it, too. :o)
20 January 2008 at 06:52
Very pretty finish! The colors are wonderful
20 January 2008 at 14:55
Beautiful heart, nice job finishing it
21 January 2008 at 11:00
Beautiful finish! I think you were quite creative in making up for running out of the WDW color. Well done.
23 January 2008 at 09:41
It’s beautiful! Great finish Renee!