Stitch-olution: Sulpher Tuft (mushroom)

So a year or so later I remember I have a blog and figure why not update?

Here today we have a (fully finished) sulphur tuft cross stitch finished into a jar top.

The cross stitch is an old Allura Design - miniature, stitched on a piece of 12cm aida. I picked the cross stitch up ages ago at an Op shop for about $2-4AUD and like most of my craft things lately it sat and gathered dust. But recently I've been trying to do stuff again other than work and be miserable and today there was success.

Finishing something helps for sure.

The finished cross stitch:

And as a reminder of what type of mushroom it is I added the name using a spare bit of yellow/green and tan, just made it up as I went, with a little trial and error. I think it turned out nice:

I cut a circle of white felt to the size of a jar lid I just happened to have on the sink and located a small amount of stuffing to go between the lid of the jar and the felt. The stuffing I was hopping would smooth out the lid shape and the white felt so the black of the lid wouldn't show through the aida. I stuck down the felt to the lid with liberal use of the hot glue gun.

More liberal use of the hot glue and the mushroom was stuck down over the felt and to the lid;