Christmas bauble

At yesterday's meeting of Parbold Embroiderers' Guild, we heard a fascinating talk by Katie Chaplin of Japan Crafts about her visits to Japan and then she gave a workshop on making kimekomi balls in Christmas fabrics.

Briefly, this is what we did. Starting with a polystyrene ball, on the surface we marked out one of three designs, then covered each area in fabric. The final touch was outlining in cord and adding a hanging loop.

Here is my finished bauble, which is already hanging on the tree (as you can see). I'm very pleased with it.

In fact it was a great choice of workshop to have for our Christmas meeting (thanks to Sue, our Programme Secretary) and followed an earlier visit from Katie when she taught us present wrapping Japanese-style.