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While this embroidery for my etui was stitched by me, the embroidery design and the pattern for the Victorian Etui was designed by a very talented friend of mine, Karen Fraser.
Karen made her first etui many years ago. I was fortunate to be one of her very first students while she "practiced" her teaching techniques on me and Arlene Baker. Both Karen and Arlene are well-known in southern California as two of Piecemaker's finest and favorite class instructors.
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I cut a simple shape around that outline, then used some of the leftover wool felt used to line the interior to make a sheath. I added a few blossoms to mirror the embroidery on the interior heart pocket before I stitched the sheath together with a simple buttonhole stitch.
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