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 I missed last month's Dare to Dabble, as we were on holiday, so was pleased to go this time, when we were making Dorset buttons.

We began with a small metal ring, a sewing needle and our choice of threads:



The ring, as you can see, is slightly smaller in diameter than the length of the needle.  As it turned out I used mostly different threads, as these weren't long enough.

We began by covering the ring in thread, using blanket stitch:



Then we used a different thread to add spokes:



After which we worked round the spokes using backstitch to fill in the gaps:



It takes a long time.  That is the result of slightly over two hours' work.

Date: 2023-11-17 08:43 am (UTC)
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You almost ended up with a Dorset button set…glad I went local :-p

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