Holiday Handstitching

As my workroom becomes a bedroom for visitors over the Christmas holiday I made sure I had some hand stitching to do while my machines were 'out of bounds'.

Thinking ahead to my exhibition next year, I machine felted up some squares that after the additon of hand stitching, I will make up in to cards for selling at the exhibition. Regular readers will notice they are part of my "rust" series.

I really enjoy hand embroidery and with the addition of a few beads, I'm really quite pleased with these little embroideries which I hope will sell well.

Inspired by an idea in Quilting Arts Gifts, I made this needlefelted box, again with idea of something to sell at the exhibition. It was a bit labout intensive so I'm not sure whether it will make it as a sale item.