Love the design above … lots of tiny pieces can be fused onto the background, and machine or hand stitched to secure them.

One of the trees I have let out of storage so far I refer to as The Family Jewels. It is decorated by single earrings, broken chains, worn out watches … and strings of beads.

The linked blog is the original smaller, purchased tree … that tree has been replaced with a taller hand made tree, and the collection of family jewels has grown to fill it!

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