Saturday 10 January 2015

Whimsey

Helen had requested that I make a pouch for one of her friend's who was celebrating her birthday today. I dug around in the stash looking for inspiration, and I came up with the most delightful piece of hedgehog linen. Perfect.


Once I had the key fabric everything else fell into place pretty quickly. A little plain linen. A bright red zip. Some Little Apples red fabric for the interior. And some perle cotton.


It was nice to add a few details to take a simple pouch and make it individual. I made sure I had a hedgehog on the zip tab. I stitched a line of brown perle stem stitch on both sides. And then a quickly embroidered ladybug to mirror the ladybugs in the hedgehog fabric. Well, it was easier to embroider a ladybug than a hedgehog!

A dig in a different cupboard produced a Terry's Chocolate Orange to pop inside. Bob's your uncle, the job is done.

Susan

20 comments:

  1. Thats my idea of a perfect gift - usable and edible!
    Its my birthday soon :)

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  2. I am going right now to look for an embroidery class on craftsy. I am so stinking jealous of your skills!!!! This is fab!!!

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  3. It's the cutest pouch ever! I'm sure it was an absolute hit!

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  4. Opps it gobbled up my comment! The pouch is perfect, I'm sure it was very well received :)

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  5. I don't know whether I'm more impressed that you made this (gorgeous pouch) in a relatively short amount of time or that you had a chocolate orange in one of your cupboards!

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  6. I would love this as a present, everyone likes to get an original gift. x

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  7. Perfect. Although I'm now craving choc orange which I'm not even keen on :-)

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  8. Adorable! We have a cupboard full of Christmas chocolates we are trying to offload as birthday presents too! Jxo

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  9. What a great mum you are! A sweet gift for a happy birthday!

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  10. Cute and grown up all at the same time!

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  11. Stop the clocks - you gave away a Terrys chocolate orange?!

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  12. Cute wee ladybird. You have a cupboard full of chocolate though? My wee box looks quite reasonable now as I hide it away to start the diet tomorrow..

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  13. What a sweet gift to be able to give a friend. You are an awesome Mum!

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  14. Looks fab, what a great make, im sure it will be adored!

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  15. Lovely present!
    I sent dear son off to a party for 3 friends with NOTHING handmade today - it felt great!

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  16. I think I may be using this idea. This is lovely Susan, and I even have some chocolate orange in the house.

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  17. Adorable pouch! And chocolate included....what could be better.

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  18. A gorgeous pouch. WIsh there was a Terry's Orange hiding in my cupboard.....!!!

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  19. The friends of your daughters are the luckiest

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