A Hoopy Remembrance

While luxuriating on my beach blanket over the past two weeks, I occasionally took my eyes off the view to focus on some embroidery. Remember the gorgeous logo I told you about here? Well, the clever designer Berene (who knows me too well) sent me a .pdf of the logo as a line drawing. You know, just in case I might want to stitch it out. Hello, what a great idea!!

So I did.

I had some gorgeous handmade ceramic buttons from this talented artist stashed away in my sewing room. They were the perfect embellishment! The variegated blue and both pinks are #8 Finca perle cotton by Presencia and the gray and brown are 2 & 3 strands of DMC floss, respectively.

I trimmed the excess linen, snipped the 1/2" allowance and glued it to the back inside of the hoop. Then I cut a piece of heavy interfacing (Timtex) and hot glued it to the hoop, covering the backside of the stitchery.

I love my remembrance hoop! We spent almost a year raising that money, plus many cold and rainy Sunday mornings on training walks together, and ultimately 2 wonderful days of walking through Vancouver. That's worth remembering!