Did you guess what what I'd added to the back of the Hearts Desire centre tabe piece that I shared a picture of yesterday? Well I was adding a final flourish! First of all I sketched a design onto paper, using a motif from the book With Needle and Thread (also by Natalie Bird) and added "stitched by..." freehand. Once I was happy with my final sketch the pencil lines were drawn over with a very fine black Sharpie pen to define it. I taped my homemade paper pattern to a lightbox to enable me to trace the design onto fabric using a very fine Micron Pigma pen nib size 005. I used the same Cosmo threads for the hand embroidery on the label that I'd used on the front, along with very simple embroidery stitches...
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...the shape of the label was made using a Karen Kay Buckly Perfect Circle mylar template. It's a bit time consuming, but I think you'll agree the end results are well worth it. Anyway, here's the finished label, which has been hand appliqued into place. Measuring just 3.5" in diameter, it sits perfectly - I'll definately use this template again, especially as my next Poppy Patch Posse project is going to be a Natalie Bird Design too!
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