This is for Amy, a special lady, who will be getting married in Sydney. I first knew her when we went on the same church mission trip. It is always encouraging to see a young life well invested for God's kingdom.
I wanted to make her a ring book but her mom's friend has plan to make her a ring pillow. I dont have much time to work on anything that is too time consuming, so I cracked my head and came up with this idea.....a wedding band to wrap round the Bible. I got it done in 2 days, I could have done it in a day but my long sightedness is making needlework much more difficult these days. I think I should get myself a magnifying glass for crafters (If anyone has any good recommendation please let me know). That way, I wont keep losing my beads; placing my needle into the wrong point and having a hard time threading the needle :) Never thought when this day comes, doing needlecraft would be such a tough job.
Here are the pics to what I have done.
I went to the Christian BookStore and got this nice bible. I just love it. It is a NKJV Bible in giant print.
It is burgundy leathersoft cover and has a nice pattern on it....elegant and fit for a weddng.
The first few pages are for keeping a record of the bride's and the groom's family trees. I think this is great.
Here is the band with the bride's and the groom's intials stitched on with beads.
I crocheted all along the edge of the cross stitch fabric before stitching on the beads. It is like working cross stitch except you just add in a bead to each stitch and you only do half the stitch instead of a full cross stitch. You can find very clear instructions here on beaded cross stitch.
You can see the beadwork at close up. I did a heart with a cross inside to go between the initials. I use backstitich to do the date below the heart.....just a simple design. I got the pattern for the initials from a book - Counted Beadwork.
I crocheted a button and a loop to hold the two ends together......
.....and a purple ribbon bow attached to the flap above the button.....
.....and a purple ribbon bow attached to the flap above the button.....
....and a card by Shera's Design to go with the special gift.
