Wedding Gift

I had another wedding this month and decided to make the bride and groom a little hand stitched project.  The bride, Aggie, is originally from California and the groom, Steve, is from New Jersey.  I have seen all over Pinterest and in stores state items so I decided to make the project with their states.

I started by printing out outlines of the two states and then I pinned them to the fabric.  Then I stitched around the states with a chain stitch.

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I added in some dashed lines, their names, and the wedding date to finish the project.

I cleaned up the back with another piece of the grey fabric that I pressed and stitched a finished line around. At that same time I machine stitched the tag to the back with a note to the happy couple.  I whip stitched it to the back for a nice clean finish.

It was a fun wedding that apparently I didn't take any photos at :(  Oh well.

So one more wedding in a couple weeks that I won't be able to make, but I need to whip up a project for that, too.