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Want a UNIQUE Fashion Statement? Try This Leaf Brooch DIY
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Jan 10, 2025
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let's create brooches you could do a
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lovely green one like this one or how
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about a pink one like this one or the
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lovely blue one that I'm wearing you can
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make them out of anything you like but
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it's a great way to use up those little
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scraps of fabric and felt and they're
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really quick they're really easy and
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everyone will love them so let's get
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started you're going to need some sort
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of leaf shape now I have a free template
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for you you can use the link on the
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screen or in the description below or
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you can use a leaf tone template from
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anywhere else or freestyle it draw your
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own leaf but what you do need is a
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larger and a smaller version like I have
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on the template so the larger one is for
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your felt and then your little small one
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is going to be for your scrap of fabric
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so obviously you need some felt whatever
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color you've chosen I'm going to do this
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bright pink and a scrap of
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fabric something to fasten it to you so
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you could buy a proper brooch fastening
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or you could just use a safety pin like
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I'm doing here a little bit of something
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to stuff it you could use scrap fabric
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if you wanted or yarn if you want some
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beads you need those and you definitely
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need something to sew it with and I
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recommend an embroidery thread that
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matches or maybe contrasts that's up to
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you so that's everything you're going to
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need so to start with get those
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templates now what I would say here
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obviously if for using mine they're a
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set size but you could always print them
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off bigger or smaller to make a larger
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or small smaller brooch it's all about
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en crafting personalizing it making it
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how you want and not feeling the
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pressure to do it exactly the same as
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everyone else so take the larger
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template and cut out two of them from
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your felt so you can see how you can use
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scraps of felt for this really easily
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these aren't large pieces the fact that
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I'm using quite a large piece is just
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because that's what I've got available
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and just trim round you don't even need
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to pin it to the felt obviously you can
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do if that would make you
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happier um and get two
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identical felt leaves and then you want
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to cut the smaller template on your
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scrap of fabric now I'm just positioning
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it how I am because I want that little
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contrast of the different squares of the
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the fabric just to get those different
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colors and a bit of Interest I just like
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the look of it
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so again you just cutting round it and
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then you're going to have two felt ones
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and one fabric one and you're ready to
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start
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assembling so one of them turn it over
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because you want them to go together
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when you put them together and match up
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perfectly so can you see how I've
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positioned my pin on the back of one and
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the fabric on the front of the other and
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get yourself a needle threaded up with
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your embroidery thread put a knot in it
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and bring it through from the back just
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at the base of your inner fabric leaf
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and then make a small
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Stitch and then just bring your needle
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up somewhere along that Stitch really
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don't get fussy about where it doesn't
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matter and then another little Stitch
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and you're just making that little vein
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that's going to run up your leaf and
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then what you want to do is keep putting
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a vein out to the
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side so you're just going to bring your
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needle up along that Center vein that
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you're
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making and just pick where there are no
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rules you can have as many of these
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veins as you want and then just go out
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to the edge of your
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Fabric and put your needle
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through and then come back into the
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center in the same
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place and then take your needle out to
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the other
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side and you've made a pair of veins
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just like you'd get on an ordin Rel Leaf
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now don't pull your yarn too your yarn
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oh listen to me don't pull your thread
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too tight or you'll cause your Leaf to
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bend like that so if you do just flatten
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it out straighten it out again and then
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keep going so I'm showing you me doing
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the whole Leaf but I've spread it up so
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you don't get bored hatefully um but you
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can see I'm just working my way up and
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as I work up the leaf I'm adding those
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veins I didn't particularly want too
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many you could have loads you could even
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add veins on veins and add lots of
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detail if you want
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to but I quite like them like this and
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what you're doing by putting that vein
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obviously at the edge is attaching the
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fabric down so it's not going to come
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undone it may Fray a little at the edges
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but that just adds to the charm in my
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opinion and when you get to the end just
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make sure you go right to the end
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because again you just want to secure
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the point at the
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end you can see I'm just doing a little
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vein there to the
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side oh not quite there we
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go and then that could be the front done
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you don't have to add any beads I just
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think they do add something if you want
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to so I'll just wrestle this packet
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open Easy
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packets and just get a few of your beads
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now the only thing I need to say about
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the beads is you probably want them
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quite small but remember that you need
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to be able to get your needle through
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them so they can't be too small or you
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will have trouble and then usually the
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easiest thing is to just poke your
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needle through it on the
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surface if you're having trouble you can
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pick the bead up and poke the needle
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through but just get the bead secured
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and the way you do it is obviously you
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bring your needle up wherever you want
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to be I put it at the end of each of my
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veins and then needle through the bead
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bead on back down through the leaf in
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the same place as you came up and
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that'll just secure it and then just
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work your way around wherever you want
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them so on this one I'm working away all
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the way around and adding them to each
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vein but I don't think I added one to
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the bottom and now a lot of mine I add
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them to the bottom of the leaf as well
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but obviously you don't have to and I do
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think they look pretty without any so
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please don't feel you have to run out
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and buy
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beads if you're enjoying this video
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could you give it a thumbs up so it
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spreads to more people CU it's really
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good if more people watch and more
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people can make their pretty brooches
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these make a brilliant gift especially
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if you're looking for a last minute gift
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and you're not looking to spend too much
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money perhaps just a little something
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so once you're happy with it we're going
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to leave that there for a
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moment and attach the fastening to the
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back of the other felt Leaf so what I
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recommend is
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again you bring your needle up from what
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will be inside the brooch so think where
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you want your brooch fastening to be and
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position it and then bring your needle
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up with a kn in
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it and then back down over your
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PIN so what you've done there is just
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secured the PIN to the felt and then go
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very close to the Stitch you just did
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and do another
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Stitch very close to that stitch do
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another Stitch and keep going all the
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way along your safety pin now if you've
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got a proper brooch fastening this may
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be how it fastens or it may be that it
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has three little circles on it that's
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quite common and you just sew like this
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but each circle so work your way
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along until you're happy it's secure you
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don't really want it sliding around so
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you want to make sure you go completely
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from one end right to the other and you
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can keep stopping and testing and making
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sure that you're
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happy and get right to that end
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and once you are happy just go to the
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back and do a little tiny Stitch and you
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can hide it behind that row of
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stitches and then put your needle
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through the loop and it's just going to
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make a little knot which will just stop
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it all coming
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undone and then you could just do
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another one or you can just weave Three
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Little Stitches at the back you're just
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trying to secure that thread because you
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don't want it coming undone
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so you can see I've done two little knot
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stitches and then I'm also just going to
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do another little run through at the
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back you can see I've got a knot so I'll
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just deal with that that's not very
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exciting for you is it let's just cut it
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off and then you've got it
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secured and now you can
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assemble so I'm just going to make that
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pin a little bit safer
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so turn that one over place your front
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on and this should match perfectly now
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if you're not happy with any bits like
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I've got a little pointy bit there and I
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don't know why I got that just obviously
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didn't cut it out very well just trim
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them off and now remember that thread we
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left we're just going to bring that up
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at the end if you didn't leave a thread
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just start a new one and all you're
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going to do is a little running Stitch
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which means you just go in and out
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through both layers make sure they're
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nice little tidy stitches but you just
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going to work your way all the way
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around it also doesn't matter where you
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started from you're just going to keep
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going all the way around now what you
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can find with embroidery thread is as
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you're working it gets quite twisted and
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then it starts to try and tangle so if
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you're having that problem just hold it
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up and let the needle dangle and it'll
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all unwind and you'll see I keep doing
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that as I'm working my way
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around but don't get yourself all the
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way around because obviously we remember
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remembering we're going to put some sort
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of filling in this brooch and how much
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is up to you to How fat you want your
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Leaf to be it might be that you just
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want a little bit now I'm using toy
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filling when I do mine but what I just
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wanted to say was you can use anything
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so if you've got some leftover threads
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if you knit or crochet or if you got
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some scrapped of fabric you can cut up
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and put in that will work perfectly well
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just poke a little bit in with your
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finger and if you think well that's okay
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Carry On if not
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get a little bit more like me and poke
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that in and then just make sure you're
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happy with it before you carry on
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sewing and then we're going to finish
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off that little running
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Stitch so go right back to where you
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started see I'm just fastening up that
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little hole that's left and then all
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we'll have to do is finish off the
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thread so obviously whatever finishing
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off we do will be visible we can't hide
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it very easily so go to the back and
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just do a little tiny
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Stitch and put your needle through the
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loop and then put your needle in so that
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it comes out again somewhere else on the
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back and just make sure you haven't gone
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through the front and this is so that it
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won't pull through cuz there'll be a
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length of yarn in
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there and that's it you've made your
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brooch I hope you enjoy making loads of
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them and please give me any comments
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