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Try the faux taxidermy trend with our Beautiful Bug Box. Give crafty critters a bright and contemporary makeover with Carolyn Letten’s stylish shadow box. Using pure silk fabrics and metallic threads, you can create a beautiful display that will shimmer in the sunlight and add a touch of sparkle to your home. The ultimate gift for lovers of the natural world, this stitched picture is the result of free motion machine embroidery that can be completed in just a few simple steps.
Make the butterfly
Download and print the templates from sewmag. co.uk. Using the templates, cut out two pairs of butterfly wings from paper. Place deep pink fabric into an embroidery hoop, lay the paper template for the top pair of wings near the middle of the hoop and stitch around the edge of the paper using neon pink thread.
Machine embroider over the detail pen lines. Tear the paper away. Use assorted coloured threads to fill in the details as shown. Remove the fabric from the hoop, then back the wing with medium weight interfacing. Cut out the wing, leaving a 2mm border. Repeat this step with the bottom pair of wings using a pale pink spotty fabric.
Sew the moth
Place pink crosshatch print fabric into the embroidery hoop. Use the main detailed moth template to make a paper template, then use the plain moth template to cut out a piece of pink organza fabric. Place the organza in the middle of the hoop, then lay the paper template on top so the organza is slightly sticking out.
Using a lilac thread, machine embroider around the edge of the paper template and over the detail lines. Tear the paper away. Trim the bottom edge of the pink organza to the scallop shape. With a jade thread, machine embroider inside
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