At the exhibition a few weeks ago someone mentioned that there will be a Christmas Fair in our neighbourhood in November. As people were so interested in the embroideries I tried to think of something embroidered that I could sell at the fair and came up with the idea of greetings cards. So I ordered a few packs of “photo insert cards” from an on-line supplier and searched my archives for some designs that might make good cards. In my early days as a digitiser, when I was selling designs on the Internet, I did a lot of simple 4×4 inch designs which I found to be ideally suited to be used as cards. Not all of them are Christmas cards but things like butterflies and Art Nouveau designs are usually popular, and the cards can be used for many different purposes.
A selection of embroidered Christmas and note cards, stitched on felt
I quickly discovered that stitching the designs on felt worked a lot better than using my usual backing fabric, and made the finished product look quite professional These little embroideries are quick and easy to stitch out, and they’ll be a good place to use up all my odds and ends of metallic threads. I think the cards will be very popular