New silk & gold kit

[Mabel Figworthy]

Presenting Mabel's latest kit: the silk & gold Quatrefoil.
Treat yourself (and the recipient of the resultant card) to a bit of luxury with the soft feel of silk on silk and the little touch of bling that gold thread brings!

[Serinde]

Lovely! I know this design has been around for a bit, but today I did wonder if your designing is constrained by the type and size of aperture cards available now -- nothing like back in the day, I seem to remember.

[Mabel Figworthy]

I have actually found a new supplier who has a good range of sizes and apertures, albeit at rather higher prices than I used to pay - but at least I can get them! So no constraints there, fortunately
Also, I tend to design first and decide what to do with them afterwards....

[rcperryls]

A lovely card and kit. As always.

Carole

[Squirrel]

Very beautiful

[Podolyanka]

Your flower fascinated me, so I looked at four-petalled flowers and discovered that there are plenty of them in nature and some are really fantastically beautiful. Plus I learnt that poppies have 4 petals- I would have bet my old hat that they have more petals. I also discovered that there are quite pretty flowers with two petals all in all! Thank you, Mabel, without your wonderful flower I would not have discovered such interesting facts about flowers. Did you consult google or did you design the flower on your card from your imagination?

[wendywombat]

Stunning!!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Lyudmila, I'm pleased this design led you on such an interesting journey of discovery! I have to admit I didn't do any botanical research - the four-petalled flower, with or without the small leaves in the corner, is quite a well-known motif in medieval manuscripts (that's also where I got the name "Quatrefoil" from). It's good to hear it could have been a real flower, because medieval manuscripts are not always known for their accurate depiction of nature....

[fccs]

Love the story. And that picture would be a fun embroidery project.

[Serinde]

A bit late in a reply to this... but Nancy Spies has copied a whole bunch of these wonderful creatures from manuscripts and made them into designs. Ask the library to find you Here be Drolleries and/or Here be Wyverns. You will find rabbits jousting from the backs of lions, along with wonderful alphabets, architecture, and various patterns from cloth. They really are wonderful books.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Must look that up, thank you! Tanya Bentham has done a few as well.