Lucky Larry & Blushing Belinda . . . . Sort Of

Well, these will go down as two of my favorites ever. Our good friends, Dave and Naomi, were married in June in a fabulous barn wedding. You've met Dave & Naomi before . . . . but you know them as the Nurse and the Ninja. They're big ornament fans. In fact, my ornaments made an appearance at the wedding on the cupcake table in lieu of cake toppers.



I knew I wanted to make them a set of ornaments to commemorate their special day. I used Carolyn DeAngelis' bride & groom patterns as a starting point and then worked with actual pictures of the wedding.

Here's Dave.


Here's Dave's boutonniere.


Here's Naomi with her dress and flowers.


And here is my tribute to them in felt.


Naomi's dress isn't too exciting on the front of the ornament.
I put her detail on the back. Here is the back of her wedding dress.


And here is the back of the ornament. I don't know how well you can see it, but I made the corset-type lacing out of white embroidery floss.

I hope they like them as much as I enjoyed making them!

Nurse

Does this pattern have a name other than "Nurse?" That's all I have on my sheet. I'm naming her Nurse Naomi, after the recipient. A friend's daughter graduated from nursing school this spring and I'll be giving her this at Christmas.

I made a couple of changes:

• The pattern had a scalloped top on the nursing hat. It was too bonnet-like for my taste so I changed it. I added that red back-stitched line to give the hat some definition.
• I thought the bouquet of flowers in her hand according to the pattern was a little sexist, so I created a stethoscope instead. That's a piece of black satin rattail cord around the neck. Hanging down from there is another piece of satin trim that's flat. The bottom is 2 black circles stitched together with a silver sequin stitched on top.

As always, the arms are 3-dimensional.