Then there's days like today...
I'm really keen to finish off my step-by-step design challenge. But I hit a bit of an obstacle along the way. The embellishment was driving me out of my mind. At first I had planned to add a felted heart. I had even selected the burgundy felt before I chose the yarn colours. So the material selection for the entire project was based on the old felted jumper I planned to use for the heart.
Problem is... when I added the heart, I hated it... it just didn't look 'right'... whatever 'right' might be. So I tried one option after the next after the next...
this just looked too bland
so I tried this, which was too gaudy
then I abandoned the felt idea, and tried to embroider a monogram... ugh
back to the original heart again, but this time adding a button... getting there, but still not quite what I was after
and then finally success with this effort...
So now to make the 'swatch' into a cushion... surely that will be the easy part, I hope!
4 comments:
that looks great! good balance of pattern and interest without being too much. well done for perservering! i like the process you went through to plan it out. i'm not good at planning crafty things- too impatient, just want to get on with making even though i know a bit more planning would probably improve the results!
thanks donna...
this 'planning' business is all a bit new to me, but I'm starting to get the hang of it now... it does help to have a rough plan of where you are heading, and then allow room for little deviations along the way
...and then she tried the blue heart and it was just right!
sounds just like a fairy tale, doesn't it?
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