Wednesday, February 10, 2010

My Red Exchange Was Received

I recently participated in the HOE exchange called Go Red For the Heart. I sent my exchange to Lisette who emailed me this morning to say she received it and loved it!

I really had alot of fun stitching it as it was a bit of a challenge for me. I stitched it over 1 on 32 ct belfast linen. This is the 2 nd time I have stitched over 1 and I have to say it went smoothly! The first time I stitched over 1 it was a disaster lol The only difference this time was I used evenweave linen. Last time I just used regular linen. The next challenge I had was trying to finish it to fit it properly into a heartshaped cupcake holder. I have only ever made round cupcakes and stuffed them using fiber fill. This time my DH had an idea to use styrofoam in the cupcake to get the right heart shaped fit. So he cut a block of styrofoam into the heart shape then shaved down the top to make it smooth. The rest was up to me. I really like the way it came out and I am so glad Lisette loved it too!


4 comments:

Meadows08 said...

It turned out so cute! What a great idea to use styrofoam.

Mylene said...

That looks so lovely!!

Unknown said...

That is absolutely adorable! It's a really cute idea, and I love the way you finished both of the ones you posted (the purple one and the heart one).

Mylene said...

Such a great surprise came in today, THANK YOU so much, Lisa.

I send a note to the e-mail address you've written on the card but it came back to me so i use the one i can find here on your blog. Hope you get to receive it.