Wednesday 2 March 2016

Take Two

The Monthly Challenge, restitched, on pre-stained fabric, without the colour runs. 
The chart is from Pineberry Lane and can be found here
Finished in a deliberately primitive style (I can do blanket stitch neater than that, honest), with tea stained lace, a twine bow and a rusty bell

Mind you, the final placement of one of the tea stains is a bit dubious


Rudolf!
 I nearly trod in that! I ought to rub your stupid red nose in it!

24 comments:

Amy said...

Very cute!

LOL at poor Rudolph :D

Vickie said...

ha ha! Looks great.

Chocolates4Breakfast (Terri Malinovich) said...

LOL! Funny and cute. Really cute - the finish is perfect!

Suz said...

That is super cute - I think your finishing is fantastic for this piece.

I literally laughed out loud when I read your Rudolph comment. Well done!

Barb said...

He even has his hands on his hips? Christine, I love how you have finished it .Did he have proof it was Rudolf ,it could have been anyone of the other 6.
Lol
hUGS

Brigitte said...

It's so much safer to stitch on pre.stained fabric. Your finishing is just gorgeous. I was doing this sewing on years ago and had forgotten about this way of finishing. I have to remember it when my finishing mojo comes back.

Kerryp77 said...

Me laughing at your comment actually made my kids look up from their tablets! It looks really lovely aged like that.

cucki said...

Aww he is so cute :)

Vonna Pfeiffer said...

a delightful finish!

Unknown said...

Love it and well done on having another go. Love your little joke about the tea bag stain. :)

Clare-Aimetu said...

Beautiful work Christine :-)

Cindy's Stitching said...

still very pretty. no one but you will notice.

Bea said...

The finished pillow is lovely and your comment made me giggle. Well done!

Preeti said...

You stitched again so quickly! It's looking very nice :) I guess even the earlier one was good, why can't tea spill on thread area and cause color bleed, why should it only stain the fabric area? I would have hung on to whatever happened with that excuse for stitching only once;)
You are a perfectionist!! No one will notice the dubious placement of stain until you mention.

The Knitting Cross Stitcher said...

Lovely finish..naughty Rudolph:)

Wendy said...

Hahahaha that really made me laugh!

Mary - Lecoeurceltique said...

A lovely finish, Christine.

Carol said...

Ha ha!! I just love this, Christine--that naughty Rudolf!! But, seriously, your finish is just so sweet and perfect for this prim piece :)

Julie said...

LOL, version two does look much better, finished to delightfully too.
Roll on next month!

Angela said...

Lovely finish!

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Poopy Santa!
Nice prim finish.

rosey175 said...

Well better Rudolph than Santa himself LOL. Congrats on your re-finish.

Stitching Noni said...

Gorgeous finish :o)

Sheryl said...

pretty stitching, I like the green fabric.