Yes, I’ve finally thought of a name for my ‘Red’ design – ‘Red Over Red’. 10 points to the first person who guesses my musical influence

Here’s the last stitch in progress:

 

 

 

 

 

And here’s Lily holding up the finished product:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next weekend it will be taken to the local needlepoint shop to be made up into a cushion – yay! Then it’s photography, and hours of cutting threads and preparing the kit.

Since I’m addicted to cross stitching, I decided to start my Bats Clutch straight away! Here was my process … first, I traced around the clasp and cut out a pattern:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I traced the pattern out onto the canvas – the middle will be the bottom of the clutch:

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a pretty simple design – just some bats drawn onto the canvas with texta:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m really loving the lolly pink and black design, with added silver accents for subtle ‘bling’ effect:

 

 

 

 

 

Although I’m actually stitching the first part upside-down

 

 

 

 

 

 

This cute little clutch purse will be a prototype only – I’m sure I’ll get a lot of use out of it! I’ll probably make one for the shop after that