Ms. Corbett has a very helpful and inspiring blog about needlework. She emphasizes surface embroidery, and it's always fun to drop by there and see what's up. There is a link to her blog along the side.
Recently she mentioned that she has a big magnifier for her embroidery station, by a window, and showed what she is doing to keep the lens covered while she's not working with it. She also mentioned that keeping a magnifier covered when the sun is out can be an important safety habit.
This inspired me to see what I could do to keep mine covered, as it's recently been set up by a window as well.
The fabric is some ivory polyester dupioni that was left over from a wedding dress a while back. User tip, I should have secured the edges of the piece before putting it into the Qsnap frame. It frayed quite a bit and loose threads had to be corralled a lot. Because of the nature of this fabric, the cover bag was sewn up with French seams on the sides and a folded over double seam at the top.
The flowers were just sketched with a pencil. The threads are cotton floss, two strands. The floss could be DMC, or Anchor, or some random brand. The cover is not expected to be washed, anyway. And there are quite a few bits and bobs of thread on little cards to use up.
The stems are stem stitch, the leaves a variation on feather stitch. The blossoms are daisy stitch, with French knots in the centers.
The casing is ribbon. So is the drawstring.
This was a fun little project and solved a need as well.
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