For the past few days I've been doing some sewing and mending that has been piling up. My sewing machine saw the light of day today for the first time in months.
And this was the result:
A personalised sheet set.
Several members of my family have sheets of a similar colour, so to tell mine apart from the others I decided to personalise them.
The butterflies on the sheets are hand-stitched on with button hole stitch, after using an iron-on fusion to hold them in place.
The pillowcases just have a strip of the same fabric as the butterfiles, machine stitched in place.
And then there is my latest completed cross stitch. I didn't have it in my list of projects, mostly because it was a little one that I just picked up when I needed something small to take with me.
So here it is 'Especially For You' from the Country Companions collection.
I'm still going on the table runner, and worked on it some more today. I'd really like to get on with something else, because it is starting to annoy me, having to alter the pattern slightly because the printed cross stitch just doesn't look right. I only hope the blue outline comes out when I wash it, otherwise I will have spent all that time stitching it for nothing.
