... for fridge magnets. Seriously. Even though I did a cull when we moved, the magnetic board we have for them is full and even the set of metal cupboards I have for keeping sewing stuff in is now almost completely covered. I decided, since I've been sent a few button/pin badge type things over the past couple of years, that I would swap from collecting fridge magnets as holiday/outing souvenirs to pins.
I wasn't quite sure how to display them, although I had fantasised about making a wall hanging, and then when I went to the wool show in Edinburgh recently I saw that one of the stall holders there used fabric in an embroidery hoop to display hers.
What a good idea I thought. I could do that I thought. I even went so far as to buy an embroidery hoop when we went to Hobbycraft recently - ( another of those famous occasions where they don't have what you went for but you come away with somethign different anyway).
It might have festered in the craft room for years,like so many other bits that I've collected because I had a Good Idea which I never had the nerve to put into practice but lo and behold! it didn't. Earlier today I ironed some calico, popped it into the hoop ( not anything I've ever done before) and then punned on my badges.
Et voila
Plenty of room for more. And honestly, for something that was so straightforward I am ridiculously pleased with myself for having done it.
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