four years in the making

Some years ago I saw a lovely piece of hand stitchery made up into a pin cushion(?) in a little old tart casing.  I believe it was the work of Charlotte Lyons shown on her blog.  Having found a little (not so old) tart tin at an op shop I wanted to reuse a piece of my silk ribbon embroidery and make one myself.  I couldn't find the photo anywhere on her blog and left the pieces on a corner of my craft table to tumble around amongst the other bits and ideas in progress.  I suspect Charlotte pulled it for publication in a book she produced with some friends.

Finally today I unpicked the original square pin cushion, created a pattern to suit my scalloped oval tart case and cut up the fabric.

I am very pleased to have tried the idea and tick that off the list.

Charlotte designs and sells embroidery panels for handstitching.  I think they would fun for both the novice and experienced person so you might like to visit her Etsy shop.