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by kay4sparkle 02 Jan 2018 ( edited Jan 03'18 21:45 )
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Well, I was inspired by Toogie's travel tray with the Fleur-de-lis and made one for my brother for Christmas. He loves Charlie Brown thus I digitized an outline of Charlie and put it on a piece of balsa wood. I then appliqued the 4x4 wood piece onto suede leather which with snaps became his travel tray.

This is by no means perfect, but it was my first time to embroider onto wood. It took a couple tries to get it, but worth the effort.
I did put a dab of glue between the wood and suede before I appliqued them together as I wanted to make sure it stayed together.
Thanks, Toogie and all of you for the inspiration you share each day!!

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Comments (14)
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by worthy 02 Jan 2018
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Looks amazing to me. Would never thought to try balsa wood. Great job.
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by asterixsew 02 Jan 2018
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A excellent piece of work. I know that Spendlove has sewn on balsa a number of times. (Its on my to do list.) the suede really adds a extra to this so hope your brother liked his gift
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by toogie 03 Jan 2018
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Ah, you made me wanna cry, all of you inspire ME. You are braver than me to try embroidering on this wood. 'I' have never done than and if this is your first time, no one can tell. It looks great and I just know your brother was pleased. Great work digitizing, another thing I can't do. Keep up the good work!-Toogie
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by basketkase 03 Jan 2018
+7
What a clever gift for a man....love the little peanut charater...
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by dragonflyer 03 Jan 2018
+6
Great job...I am sure he loved it!
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by mops 03 Jan 2018
+6
Great job. That balsa wood makes a firm bottom and it looks lovely. I never tried using balsa but I did sew on an old corktile left over from the 70s when it was sold in packs of a dozen or so and used on walls and memo boards.
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by spendlove 03 Jan 2018
+6
Great idea to use balsa to firm up the bottom!
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by liliana1 03 Jan 2018
+4
WOW looks fabulous
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by cantab 03 Jan 2018
+4
Every time I made these people love them and they want more. Wonderful job.
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by sonjapotgieter 03 Jan 2018
+3
Must try the wood embroidery!!1Beautiful!!!
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by grobin 03 Jan 2018
+2
Looks great. Will have to try the wood embroidering.
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by kustomkuddle 03 Jan 2018
+3
What an inspiration you are! Would never have thought to try balsa wood. Great job.
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by noah 03 Jan 2018
+2
Looks great and yes Toogie helps us all hugs
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by lbrow 03 Jan 2018
+1
A fantastic job you have done! Congratulations!