Presents VIII

From my friends Veronika and Magnus and their little Hedvig (the couple to the left in the front) I got a lovely carpet, hand embroidered all over with wool yarn in tambour stitch.

( This is how it looks with a cute kitty on top )

The spencer is soon finished

All that remains to do on the spencer is one button and a loop for said button. The collar is attached and all the hooks and eyes. The collar is made from two strips of wool and one of linen. The under part of the collar is sewn to the linen by hand in rows with c. 1-1,5 cm between them. The stitches on the right side are very small. This is called "pikera" in swedish; I have no idea what it's called in english. Anyhow, it's very tedious to do by hand on a 6o cm long 12 cm wide collar.