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Strawberry Needle Cushion

Once we had finished our toadstools, we needed a new project, but it needed to be quick (we only had two lessons left)

We made needle sharpening strawberries -the bottom two-thirds is filled with black emery powder.

My base fabric is a pink dupion silk (shot with green). I have used au ver รก soie silk d’alger threads.

I wanted to practise my bullion knots, so I have made bullion knot flowers and the centres are french knots. I then used fern stitch to create the vine (I saw it in the book Foolproof Flower Embroidery )

Then I added seed beads, bugle beads and sequins.

I used my cricut machine to cut felt leaves for the top. And I found two metal (plastic) leaves for the top (I think they’re jewellery charms).

Better view of the top

I made the cord using a drill and pearl cotton (here’s a tutorial video)

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