Friday 21 September 2012

Hardanger Floral Card

No WIP Wednesday posting this week or last owing to having nothing to post thanks to being away a couple of times.  However, I've been getting on with my knitting - only need to sew it all together now, and made this floral hardanger card:


It's from a New Stitches magazine, issue 88 from summer 2000 and I bought the materials pack, which included pearl and stranded cottons and the card blanks (there's also a blue one, but I worked that one years ago.)


Here's the finished thing, although, as ever, I had trouble getting the light pink of the card to show and couldn't make satisfactory adjustments on the image editing software, so you'll just have to imagine the card - including the bit showing through the cutwork - to be just that bit brighter than you can see here.



The close-up looks quite nice, and the peachy-pink of the background shows up passably well.

Until next time....

Text and images © Elizabeth Braun 2012

11 comments:

Erica said...

Your card is just lovely!

Silvana said...

mi piace lavoro molto interessante.
Silvana

Rachel said...

It's charming - well done!

JudyC said...

Hardanger配上簡單的刺繡更顯高雅!!! judy

Sparklyjools said...

That is so delightful!

Mare60 said...

bellissimo ricamo,sa di primavera
fresco e colorato

Cynthia Gilbreth said...

I love it, and I'm terrified of Hardanger!

Luiz Vaz said...

Lovely!

Dalmazia Lodi Rizzini said...

Bellissima idea Elizabeth! molto raffinato e il tocco di colore delizioso
dalmazia

Isabelle said...

your card is absolutely lovely !

floozina said...

This is beautiful. Like another of your commenters I am terrified of Hardanger.

I wonder if you would mind telling me where you get your card blanks (or do you make your own?) as I make cards out of all sorts of things but find it very difficult to get nice blanks.

 
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