When I first started needlepoint, I would buy those cheap little kits at the craft store. I enjoyed working them up, they went quickly, but I never did anything with them when they were done. They live in a bin with other swatches and small finished projects.
Today I dug one of them out, and then in a further “use it up” idea, I backed it with the other half of the purple patchwork square left over from making the lavender sachet. It’s a tiny pillow, purely decorative in nature, but it means this early needlepoint project is finally seeing the light of day after probably 20+ years of being completed.
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Very pretty!
I was so young when I did the needlepoint. I’m glad to finally make something with it.
It would be so cute to have three or four of these sitting on a shelf. I may have to take up needlepoint, haha.
This is actually sitting on my mantle right now. It would look cute with some more.
That’s a great feeling (one I don’t know well enough), the finishing of abandoned projects 😉 I love pansies and think your ‘purely decorative’ project is beautiful.
Sometimes you have to make something “just for pretty.”
Agree!
Like a butterfly it has found it’s wings and taken flight.
Ahd climbed out of it’s dark cocoon of a bin.
What a great find from the past. I’m glad you made the sachet.
Going through the old projects makes me realize how long I’ve been messing around with crafts.