A Halloween finish!

Phew....just in time for Halloween! So my little Halloween design that I was stitching last week is all finished....and I mean finished, finished :) Yay me!!!

So after you saw some of the Halloween design last week, (click here for how it looked as my 'almost finished' piece) I finished the stitching part then got on with the finishing part.

First off.....cutting the design to shape....

...then deciding on what order I wanted the coloured felt to be, black border with an orange background.....

....or orange border with an black background...

 Ahh, decisions, decisions! So although I liked the orange with the black background better, I realized that it wouldn't show up if I put the banner on my front door which is painted black, so the decision was kind of made for me....black with orange!

Next step was glueing/gluing  (I ended up looking up the spelling as it doesn't look right either way! Now I know that you can use either!) the stitching to the felt....

Trim to size the repeat with the orange felt...

The with a rather long length of black and white bakers twine (which  was so hard to find in the shops!) and a large darning needle....

....we end up with this....

For speed I pictured it on an inside door, it will of course have pride of place, and show up rather nicely, on my black front door just in time for Halloween!

Now I just have to go and buy some more sweets/candy for the trick-or-treaters on Halloween  (please don't ask why I have to buy more sweets/candy 😏 )

Until next time....happy stitching!

Rhona