Staying true to you, embroidered bowl! Are you complete?

At long last it was dry!

A little relaxing of the shape on the leaf shapes and some looking at what is needed next….

Definitely some painting to add colour to the felt leaves.

Do like the colour and light from my sewing machine! LED’s…

Two beading needles later!

Some beading undulating around the inside and the outside of the bowl.

Always a difficult point should I do more or should I stop? More beads or a little hand stitching?

And will it sell? Should I make another? Who knows and who can say!!!

I have another drying, a larger one.

I do like the colours and the feel of this one.

I'm deciding whether this bowl needs another layer of washaway to strengthen it as it's larger.

And of course beads, hand stitching or leave as is. A little tidying up around the edges.

Please feel free to add comments.

Comments

vicky myers said…

Hi, I think the bowl is great, like you no idea if it will sell:) Finding items that appeal is hard work (she says with feeling!!! You may just have found yourself a niche area:) Stopping by from Craft Blog UK FB blog post -

25 January 2014 at 23:11

Miss D @ Fibre Dreams said…

Thank you Vicky for taking the time to leave a comment. And I really appreciate the positive thoughts you have left me.

26 January 2014 at 02:17

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