Cherri’s Christmas presents

My friend Cherri belongs to a sewing group, and apparently every year it’s their custom to make Christmas presents for each other. A few weeks ago she asked me if I could come up with something she could stitch on small bags for their 2018 present, so I had a look through my “For Inspiration” file and found a photo of a lovely little Art Deco screen.

A little metal screen from the Art Deco era

This looked exactly the sort of design that would go well on a purse, so I used it as the basis of a digitised design, and Cherri has just spend a very busy couple of weeks stitching out all the purses. Here they all are, with the names of the recipients attached,

All the bags together

and here is a close-up of just one, so you can see the details more clearly

A bag by itself

I think they really turned out well, and I love all the different colours Cherri used. That rough grey felt is not an easy fabric to work with, because it tends to suck colour and texture out of anything that’s embroidered on it, but in this case the colours are just right and the background and the embroidery really work well together

Well, Christmas is next week, and I hope everybody will be too involved with holiday events to think too much about embroidery. I’ll take a short break from the blog and be back in January, but meanwhile I wish all blog readers, and indeed all embroiderers everywhere, a happy and peaceful holiday season