This Joyous Season

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Although I have finished my own piece as a pillow finish, your kit does not include silk backing fabric as I normally do due to unavailability of material and that many may wish to frame this piece instead. If you would like to finish your own Joyous Season as a pillow I would recommend the Tapioca color duchess silk satin from Mood Fabrics, which you can find here

I chose to leave off the planned briolette beaded edging due to tight margins - if you would like to add a briolette edging to your own finish, I would recommend a larger margin between design edge and stitching line of 1/2” to 3/4” (1/”2 if you stitched the border and words, 3/4” if you did not). You will need 1 4mm briolette for every 1/2” of the exterior edge. I recommend the color Crystal Golden Shadow and those can be purchased here or here. Each briolette is anchored with a 15/0 seed bead at the top, I used Miyuki 15-955, 24K gold lined pale gray, which is a lovely complement to the warm browns in This Joyous Season and can be purchased here