A Quick Recycle

I bought this lovely scarf from a charity shop a while back:

I don’t wear scarves as such but it was so pretty I just had to have it. I did try it on lots of different ways, but every way I wore it I felt like a pensioner or an air hostess!

I decided that I would change it into something more wearable so I changed it into a rosette brooch.

I ironed it in half lengthwise, then folded each free edge back over and did a rosette type twist in the middle then just did a running stitch along the remainder of the scarf with strong cotton. Gathering as I went I secured it every now and then with a few stitches to the back. I finished it off with a little felt circle and a brooch back from my jewellery stash and then fluffed it up a bit.

I considered adding ribbons and lace to the back to hang from it but it was too much, due to its size I think I will leave it at this.

Voila a bright and breezy rosette to cheer up a black outfit (which is what I mainly wear, by some fluke I was in bright red that day!).

p.s. What do you think of my new header? That's my lovely Mum in a teeny weeny black polka dot mini back in 1969!

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