Got it Covered! - an Aqua Coloured Competition

Each April the Lytham St Annes Embroiderers Guild hold the

 M Scott-Priestly Competition with a theme set by our Chairman. 

Having acquired (as we all seem to do without even trying!) a roll of rather lurid fluorescent aqua or maybe its turquoise? fabric, she set us the task of using a piece of it, in or for  something that could be defined as having Got It Covered. 

So here are some of the inventive results.

A delightful little 'Treasure Chest' to keep bits and bobs was covered in co-ordinating colours of aqua, pink and lime green which nicely set off the sumptuous box top. See detail of top, below.
Gorgeous Button Hole stitches and French Knots surround sequins and 'glass' effect sparkles. So pretty!

Above, white is a good choice of fabric as a border to calm down the brightness of the aqua centre piece.
Detail of the stitches, below, show Fly stitch,  French Knots and beads to decorate the patterns on the fabric. Looks very comfortable but too nice to squash by sitting on it!

Have used the flash here below to show the texture of the paper that has been used to make a little book that holds several 'Stitch Studies' using the fabric in different ways. This is the Front Cover.

The six pages, above and below. look like they were fun to do. Just adding stitches and beads whilst enjoying using the fabric in imaginative ways. Great idea.

Here is a lovely little white square box with a rather grand flower sitting on top of the lid.
I hope that our stitcher forgives me, but I cannot tell if the gold stitching around each petal is done by hand or machine as it is so very neat. It must have taken hours of careful work, either way. 
Never realised it before but white really does compliment and give a luxurious look to aqua/turquoise, doesn't it? It can be a strange colour to wear but we all seem to love it :-)

This is a very nice way to use the fabric; as a sort of Mock Fastener to a Clutch Bags or Make-up Bags, made in a matching coloured silk fabric. Lovely.

Last up on this post, but not least is another Note book cover very neatly and simply stitched using Chain stitch around French Knot flowers. This will make someone happy whilst writing using this note book :-)

Everyone seemed to enjoy this challenge as there were so many entries. Look out for the rest coming up soon in the next post.
Thank you to all our stitchers for making such good use of this unusual fabric and allowing photographs of their work.