Bookmarks, Butterfly

[tarnera]

Okay I found those bookmarks so here's the image heavy post I promised last time.









I'm not sure what flowers these are.



Or these... they're not peonies, are they?



I really like that they didn't go for poinsettias. Poinsettias are beautiful, don't get me wrong, but as a December baby I at least get kind of tired of them after a while. Why couldn't we get Christmas Cactus as our flower? At least that's actually a flower...

/cough/ sorry, didn't mean to go on a mini rant!

Anyway...



This is the one I'm starting now, but... well, it's off center. I have no idea how this happened. And I don't mean a little, I counted and one margin is where the tip of my thumb touches that crease and the other is where my needle is stuck in the cloth. It will be extremely noticeable.

I'm seriously considering ripping it out and starting over, as frustrating as that always is... but I don't have a lot of certain colors that I've used on the butterfly. I don't know if I can do that, much as I want to... /sigh.

Comments

[mirlacca]

Those are beautiful! Could that one flower be a geranium?

And why not just keep going with what you've got, and when you're finished, cut off the excess margin? It shouldn't even show once it's framed. Unless you've got a top/bottom margin problem as well that won't leave you with any margin at all.

[tarnera]

I'm not sure, people are saying the November one is a chrysanthemum. I'm just not good at flowers!

I think the top/bottom margins should be ok; I haven't counted it but it looks ok as the middle, eyeballing it. I feel confident in that method of measuring since that's how I figured out the side-to-side was off. I'm pretty hesitant to just cut things off like that without good reason; I suppose we'll see how it looks when I'm done. If it bothers me too much then, maybe.