BrambleStitches

My second attempt at making some fabric brooches turned out 47 billion* times better. This may have had something to do with the fact that I actually attempted to pick coordinating fabrics before I started. You know, rather than make a bunch of parts, then try to make them look nice together (I’ll beat you with the snap press if you don’t settle down and look pretty!). Newsflash: Even Erik thinks these are cool. Wow!

I picked up some pinbacks today on our way thru town, so tomorrow I’ll be stitching these up and tossing them in the craft fair basket. I pulled out some other fabric this morning to make some patriotic pins in the same style. Seems like a good idea, since the fair will be held on the Marine base. I think maybe some stars and stripes pincushions are in order, as well. By the way, you can make your own brooches, too. This is Molly Chicken’s tutorial: http://mollychicken.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/12/last_minute_thi.html

*actual statistic

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