Making an embroidered clutch bag

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Making an embroidered clutch bag

Clutch bags seem impossibly glamorous to a vintage girl who spends most of her days in Jeans, but this one is pretty special. In fact this posting has been marinating in my draft box for a very long time and I am so happy to finally be able to write about it. During these long months of lockdown, ‘making things’ has been so important to me and I know to lots of other people too and it has also been a chance to finish up some things that have for whatever reason been dragging their threads…so to speak. This charming project has been one of them and I really can’t explain why it has taken me so very long to get around to finishing it.

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Pinwheels have me doing Cartwheels!

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Pinwheels have me doing Cartwheels!

Two days to go before packing and so, before our computer is whisked away and I have to sign off for a while, I just wanted to update you on my summer accessories project.  We have a couple of big occasions this summer, our youngest son's final Speech Day at school and our daughter's graduation from university, so I wanted to make some pretty things to use.  I am not much of a clothes person really, but accessories....I love.  So what do I have to report.  Well, first of all... Anna Maria Horner is a total genius.  The needlepoint clutch bag is quite simply the prettiest project I have ever worked on and its going to be really lovely. 

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