As you can see in the picture above, the teacher nametag for the ANG Seminar at Indian Wells is almost done. All I need to do is attach the stars and it'll be done. The star brads, crystal and charms are in the location I plan to use. I moved things around quite a bit and this looks best.
The hardest thing in doing this was the lettering. I had a very long three part name to place and ended up cramming it into the middle of the space, not towards the right side as the instructions said. But there simply wasn't room for three words in one line.
This was interesting to do. The ribbon is painted to look like film. You cut a long piece in half and put the wrong sides together, then start tacking it to the congress cloth on the left side at an angle towards the right corner. Once you are about 60% across, you fold the ribbon and tack through it to hold it steady, then fold it back and attach at the side. The overlap of ribbon on both sides is to be turned under in finishing.
I'll pop it in the mail back to Laurie and she takes care of the finishing so they'll all be finished alike.
I should mention that this was designed by Angela Krause and charted by Margaret Bendig. Nice job!
UPDATE: This piece is in the mail to Laurie now. I simply added the extra L on the end of Mitchell I'd forgotten and attached the stars. Since the finished piece is essentially what you see above, I won't do another photo. After all, Blogspot limits the number of photos I can use here and I omit them when I can.
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