Making Plans

 A few years back, in 2019  I came across a wonderful book from ‘Inspirations’,  Willing Hands, The Counted Thread Embroidery Of Betsy Morgan.

If you’re a lover of stitching 3D projects, the book is filled with eight amazing Etuis and all their beautiful themed accessories, but it was some time before I plucked up the courage to actually stitch something from the book myself, never believing I had the skills needed to complete one of the projects.

Eventually, after reading through the book so many times I settled on my project, the Virgin Queen’s Stitching Wallet and set about ordering all my supplies, including Gloriana Silks that I would be using for the first time and some beautiful Silk Dupion for the lining, all of which made me very nervous.

I took my time and followed the comprehensive instructions to the letter and after several weeks I had a finish.

That was all back in 2019,  but just recently I started seeing that a second book of Betsy’s work had been published in 2021  containing another collection of  10 Sewing boxes and Etuis.

How I had missed it until now I don’t know  and I love every

single project in it, but there was one project in particular between its pages that I really wanted to stitch and I ordered the book immediately as well as the Glorinia silks and fabric that I needed.

This is the ‘Bee Contained ‘ Etui, 

And it will be on my needle very soon!

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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