Brooch finished

My brooch for the Flower Press brooch swap is now finished!

Making this brooch has really challenged me, mainly to do with turning something that is essentially a piece of fabric into something that's got a structure.

My strange list of ingredients for this brooch included:

• scrap of navy blue cotton
• edging of a doily from my Mum
• beads left over from my wedding dress
• trim that came in an old sewing box I bought last year
• cardboard from a packet of bias binding
• the lens cover from the camera as a circle template
• felt
• glue
• brooch pin
• sewing cotton

The finished brooch is perhaps a little chunkier than I expected and I probably could have used a thinner cardboard, or tried leaving it out altogether.  It was useful though for something to set the fabric around a smooth curve shape.  That aside, I'm pretty happy with the result!

I'll package it up with a few small goodies from Kikki K and it will be ready to post when the post office re-opens for business next week.