YOUR TAPESTRY AND NEEDLEWORK MADE INTO CUSHIONS FOR GIFTS…

Have you had that tapestry and needlework sitting in your drawer since you finished it years ago waiting to be made into something? Check out these two websites which can do this for you.

Sara Barns Needlework is based in South Wootton in North West Norfolk. They have many years of experience in dealing with all aspects and types of needlework from cross-stitch bookmarks for individuals to large tapestry projects for churches and cathedrals.

Fine Cell Work’s talented stitchers will finish your stitching or complete any tapestry kit. This is a great way to support the charity by providing challenging work for some of their most advanced and skilled stitchers.

Source: Sara Barns Needlework Fine Cell Work

MY LATEST ART – BY THE SEASIDE…

The size is 40 x 50 cm and comes in the black frame available on my Etsy site

BUTTONS AS A CHANGE OF OUTFIT…

 

You can change an outfit in a second with vintage buttons. They can have just the same effect as a lovely scarf and for half the price.

I’ve changed buttons on jackets, blouses and cardigans for years and have a number of different styles of black cardigans that come out each winter with different buttons on them.

You can purchasee vintage buttons on ebay or my favourite shop is Duttons for Buttons in Harrogate, which has a stock of over 12,000 buttons, they also do a mail order service.

I have also bought a cardigan in a charity shop for the buttons and put some others on it then given it back to the charity shop.

My jackets buttons change every year. This year the skin look was big and I got a number of different styles in it from a company on EBay and Amazon.

Plain coloured blouses, in particular white or black, can look so different with a lovely button on it even if you only change the top button and the sleeve buttons.

I’ve even changed a few buttons on my husbands shirts to give them a new look.

Source: Duttons EBay