This is what my grandson decided he liked to put at each place setting for the Jr. ROTC military ball. Now we just need to get a head count. The Col. said that he is hoping for 400 - yikes! I decided that it would be too much to embroider each one, so we have cut this out of felt, and tied with ribbon. It makes a 2 1/2" square, and will hold 4-5 pieces of chocolates. This was just a prototype, and I took it from a design that I was going to stich on the embroidery machine. This will be a lot quicker since I have 399 more to make. I really don't think that I will be have to do that many. But we will not have an exact count until a week or two prior to the ball. This will be a challenge. I am going to have to have an assembly party to get all of these together.

Good luck, hope you get some help as that is a challenge. They are cute and of course theirs nothing better than chocolate to fill them with. *4U and everyone

These look really cute. I was wondering if the ribbon is threaded through the top of each point to keep it closed or just the two opposite sides? Hope you don't have too many still to cut out.

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by dlonnahawkins 14 Nov 2010

The ribbon is threaded through all 4 corners.

by christracey 14 Nov 2010

Thank you. I couldn't tell by the photo.

Another question..are you using a wheel to cut them all? I'd imagine that to be quicker than pinking shears/scissors.

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by dlonnahawkins 13 Nov 2010

NO - these are no in a circle, and I tried using my cutter, but it did not look as good. I almost went out and bought the quilt cutter, but just a little too pricey to get this project done. I have about 1/2 of them cut, but don't want to do many more until I get the actual head count. I ran out of felt, and can not match it - soooo mix and match will have to be good enough.

Yikes is right! My goodness that's a lot. The quicker way you find, the better, I'm thinking. But they look lovely. The felt seems to have a thread running through it. I'm not sure I've seen any like that (unless you made it too, with cast off embroidery thread???). Great job!

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by dlonnahawkins 13 Nov 2010

yes - the felt has red and green metalic thread through it - but I ran out of that, and can not find any more - But I do have some white with irridescent sparkle threads through it - so we mix and match.

Nice idea These should work great.

These will be nice dlonna

You've got a lot of work ahead of you. Hope you get lots of help. These are nice.

very cute

Great little package and it will be so much easier than you making all the others on your embroidery machine. You are a wonderful grandma, too.

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by dlonnahawkins 09 Nov 2010

I hope he thinks so - I am even filling in for my daughter at the meeting tomorrow - she is in school and could not make the 2:00 PM meeting. I hope we get a good head count.

WOW COUNT ME IN I LEARN FAST & MOVE FASTER lol CAROLYN

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by dlonnahawkins 09 Nov 2010

Come on in - let me know when you will be here, and I have the spare bed cleared. LOL I have cut our 74 of these, and have to go into town to try to match the felt. If not, we will just have to mix and match best we can.

They look very nice