FULL FINISHED GALLERY 08/25

 

It's the 10th of this month and Rachel from "Ten Hour Stitcher"

welcomes us and our Fully Finished achievements.

Please visit her blog and see all the finished projects of our stitching friends.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2025/08/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery-sal.html

I have a BIG finish this month. I started my fifth gnome in 2024 January (can you believe it) with the idea of a bagpipe player. No pattern, but I had the right fabric for the kilt and beret. Red hair came from orange cords from chocolate boxes and I had already sewed the nose on the body with the same shape I made for the other gnomes.

And then I put it back in his bag, because it was not a spring project and the beret with its ribbon was giving me some troubles. Sometimes, you need a break to come back later with better fingers.

I took it back at the end of May and managed to sew the beret and the ribbon, then I made the braids and sewed some extra hair on the back of her neck.

I have cut the leather bagpipe from two old elbows pads

Some wood sticks dyed with coffee, I have made three tiny holes in the "chanter" and glued tiny black beads and bigger yellow wood beads.

Cords and tassels are made with coton perlé.

This is a small sporran made in a red agenda cover.

Je vous présente donc mon cinquième, ma cinquième gnome devrais-je dire, car c'est une demoiselle joueuse de cornemuse.

Commencée début 2024, elle a souffert d'une pause printanière mais fût de retour sur ma table de travail fin mai pour la pose du béret, la finition de la coiffure et la confection du sporran et de la cornemuse fabriqués avec une couverture d'agenda rouge et deux renforts de coude marron.