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Most families will come home from a holiday this year with an armful of leaflets, guides and tickets from the places we’ve visited that will inevitably end up in a drawer and forgotten about. This appliquéd and embroidered memory wrap can be made before you leave and taken with you. Simply hang it up in your hotel room and put all the things you collect into the pockets to give you a permanent reminder of special times.
Make a memory wrap
Cut a 23cm x 43cm panel of seaside print fabric and back with interfacing. Back beach effect print with webbing and trim to 8cm x 43cm, cutting one edge in a wavy line. Back water print fabric with webbing and cut to 3cm x 43cm, also with a wavy edge. Remove the backing paper and iron in place. Use navy sewing thread to machine stitch the beach print to the bottom of the main fabric, then sew the water print on top. Iron on the reverse.
Back a spare piece of seaside fabric with webbing, cut out an orange starfish, spade, and seagull motif. Stitch the starfish onto the ‘beach’ approximately 14cm from the right-hand edge. Trim an ‘admit one’ motif from ribbon and attach above the starfish, turning under both raw ends as you sew. Folding the ends under, stitch a 27cm length of Union Jack ribbon to the left-hand edge, ending just underneath the ticket. Sew a single Union Jack to the right-hand edge, 2.5cm from the bottom.
Machine stitch in navy around a couple of the printed seagulls and add a few stitched phrases; ‘fish and chips’, ‘summer holiday’, ‘salty toes’, and ‘oh I do like to be beside the seaside’. Iron on the r
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