I have finished a piece of Filet work and I am amazed with the results. the chart and instructions were from a book called "Magical Needlework: 35 Original Projects and Patterns" by Dorothy Morrison. Did I mention I'm a pagan?! I'm not wiccan, therefoe not a witch despite what my aunt keeps telling me (yarn witch aparently?!)
The project itself is meant to be an altar cloth according to the book, but as I don't have an altar, I added the tabs on the top myself using 1/2dc stitches, and also added a border of sc to make all the borders a little more firm.
Made using a 3mm hook and pure cotton yarn and it's taken me over a year to finish. I kept gettig annoyed and upset with it and ignoring it, but at the end of november last year I was half way through it and decided I was going to have it finished by new year. Ok. I didn't. But 12th jan isn't far off!!!
Everything was given to me, so the only cost to myself was £1.75 for the new 3mm hook
it has not been blocked, but it has been steam ironed. No blocking due to having no space to do blocking!
the rail it's hanging from is a length of 10mm diam copper pipe with two 1970s metal bead buttons streaded on to it.
finally, a full frontal shot!
I am sooooooooooo proud of this! even my husband likes it, he's not pagan but he appreciates the skills and the work which went into it and he says it goes really well with the red wall.
