Much of my craft work now is redesigning! As you will be aware, if you follow my blog posts, I donate to the Christian Bookstore of which my daughter is the Manager. Their policy is that they will only sell goods that have a Christian message or Bible verse, so are not in competition with other local stores and are able to have unique gifts alongside their many Bibles and books. Over the last 15 months I have had fun redesigning a number of my patterns to make them suitable for selling in daughter's store. I popped some lovely Scripture words on this cushion cover that I had made a couple of years ago - another project redesigned!
The Bible Pouch above was a customer's order. I was given the dimensions and the verse to display and the request for it to be dark blue - a fairly blank page to work on. I decided to redesign my 'Walk in the Park Satchel'. I love how it turned out, so I hope the buyer does too!
I found this lovely doiley I had worked some time ago when I was looking through one of my many crates of crafted goods. It is stitched with the rather unique Bunka thread, and was meant to be worked with a punch-needle, but I chose to hand-embroider it. It was designed to be a wall hanging, but I decided to make it into a tray cloth or doiley and crocheted the pretty edge around it. When I saw it again, my eyes went to all that lovely space on the top right corner - I could add a lovely Scripture verse there and donate it for sale. So here it is finished! I am very happy with the whole project and hope someone falls in love with it enough to purchase it. I get such a thrill when my daughter lets me know that a customer enjoys seeing my work or that they have bought one of my projects as just the right gift for a friend or family.
The coat hanger cover above is another redesign. I found it in my 'Passes drawer' (Projects at a Stand Still).with pieces cut out and flowers embroidered - it had just never been sewn together. It was easy to add a Scripture Verse and complete it. It has already sold.
I am finding the redesignging just as rewarding as bringing the original design into being. There is still much joy in embroidery and there's nothing like stitching the Word of God to encourage you!
God bless you.
Val
