
Today I held embellishment tryouts! LOL That's where I ponder the block and go through my stash and pull out different items that I think might work, the things I like stay out and the things I don't get put back. Sometimes I pull things out to consider using but I may or may not use them after all. I'll usually do several embellishment tryouts as the block progresses too.
A few things I'm planning are a button bead trail in the lower right I already pulled some buttons I think work well. Also to the left I'm planning on tatting up a 10 clover edging just for this block in size 20 ecru thread which I may add some green dye to. I'll probably fiddle with a sample to see if it would look nice, but over-dyed or not I'll embellish the tatting with some silk ribbon embroidery and beads. Then in the upper left I plan on doing a silk ribbon embroidery motif, some sort of bouquet I pulled some ribbon colors that I think would work, but I still want to go through more ribbon and see what else I have. On the upper right I like that dragonfly motif which would get dyed and I'm thinking of a seam treatment that would go well there maybe a herringbone stitch.
I want to go for a dragonfly and roses theme with this block. So I'm going to see how many dragonflies I can tuck in and how many roses I can scatter!

In case you were wondering the warbled circles are spiderweb roses, the stars are sweetheart roses and the oval-ish with the point is a ribbon stitch. Then all the leaves would be ribbon stitch too.
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