Two more circles completed....

Since I finished my Chalet project, I have been working on embellishing more of my wool felt circles and, I am pleased to say that I have managed to complete two more of them.

This project is one that has been inspired by Sue Spargo's wonderful work and, I have been following along with Sue's Craftsy Class to give me some ideas for stitching as well as using her beautiful books 'Creative Stitching' and 'Creative Texturing' for inspiration and reference.

Firstly, I added some cute little purple 'drizzle' stitches to the centre of my first set of circles which I showed you last time. Before adding the stitches, the first set of circles looked like this...

You may recall that I thought the centre of the middle circle needed a little extra embellishment but wasn't sure what to add.  Well, when I saw the drizzle stitch, I knew it would be perfect.

Once I had added the drizzle stitch to my first set of circles, I started work on the second set of circles.

To complete this second set of circles I used coton a broder in blue to stitch an outline of 'crested chain stitch' around the largest wool circle.  I then used green coton a broder to add fly stitch to the second wool felt circle. Finishing the fly stitch with pistil stitches.  Between each of the pistil stitches I added a bullion loop in pink coton a broder.

The edge of the cotton fabric circle was embellished using 'bullion cast on stitch' in a light teal coton a broder and finally, in the centre I added a flower stitched using 'double cast on stitch' for the petals and a colonial knot in the centre.  For the flower I used a variegated cotton pearl thread (size 8).

For the third set of circles I started by outlining the largest wool circle with 'rosette chain stitch'.  I used a pretty variegated pearl cotton thread (size 8). I also used this same thread and stitch to outline the centre cotton fabric circle.  The middle wool circle was edged with small fly stitches using purple coton a broder thread.

I added some bullion knots in blue coton a broder to decorate the larger wool circle and then finished the very centre with a circle of 'open buttonhole filler stitch' in light purple coton a broder thread.

I am so pleased I started this project as these little sets of circles are providing me with a lot of opportunity to try new stitches and are quickly stitched up in an evening.  I love the texture that some of the stitches are adding to the project and I am looking forward to stitching the next set now!!