I needed a break from Shalimar so I decided to finish Tara with a round fabric frame that I made following the instructions I had read in the Embroidery Canada, Spring 2007 magazine from an article called "It's time to display" written by Susan Donn.
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This was really not very difficult to do and looks pretty good. You need to mount both fabrics on foam core or in my case I used some mat similar to what the framers use and cut each piece the size that I needed. Then, I added some padding to each one (next time around I will add more padding under the stitched piece so that I can add a thicker cord around it) and added my stitched Tara on the smaller circle and my chosen fabric on the larger one, and laced both individually. After that I added a brown craft paper on the back of the bigger circle. I glued Tara on the bigger circle and made some cording and added to both. All that remains for me to do now is to glue a picture hanger (cloth with self adhesive), let it dry and then hang on my wall.
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It is really a nice way to finish a project and it is much less expensive than having it framed at the framer, mostly for a little project like this one. This can be done for any shape project whether it is rectangular, triangular, square, etc.
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I could also have chosen some fabric with prints on it, but I wanted to keep it simple and elegant. It really depends on the effect that we want to achieve.
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I was hoping to receive my threads and canvas for Mystery in a Corner by Gay Ann Rodgers, but the postman came and they were not there :-(
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Pierrette =^..^=
