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Eco-print Needlecase Kit

Eco-print Needlecase Kit
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Eco-print Needlecase KitHJKLM
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These kits each feature an eco-printed fabric by an artist-maker local to me.

Sarah collects leaves and blooms from her garden, the hedgerows and understanding neighbours in a little village in the Scottish Borders. She works her magic with carefully sourced materials, giving new life to rescued deadstock fabrics and utlising natural dyes.

I encourage you to stitch into the fabric, perhaps outlining the leaves for even greater depth, or making little random straight stitches (seed stitch) over the background to create a textured effect. I suggest just one or two strands of the 6-ply embroidery threads in your needle.

For the inner fabric I have teamed the eco-prints with a range of Balinese-style batiks which resemble dramatic watercolour stripes. The coloured felt for your needles and pins is 100% wool and the wadding layer is 50% cotton/50% bamboo.

You’ll also find co-ordinating cotton embroidery threads, a mother-of-pearl button, a needle and a slim pair of metallic scissors.

There’s a step-by-step guide to making up your needlecase. Feel free to make it differently, or to use the kit to create a little pouch or glasses/mobile case instead. Embroider all over the fabric, selectively or not at all - whatever you like!

The finished size, when folded closed, is approx 11cm x 10cm.

Every kit is different, but sometimes I can make more than one kit from the same fabric. These ones can be considered as sisters - same style, same shades, different flower/leaf arrangement so each one unique.

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