“A” Initial Pendant

There’s still time to vote in the Sew-vivor competition at Family Ever After – polls remain open until Friday 3/22 at midnight PST.

I said I’d show you how I made the “A” initial pendant.  I can’t even justify calling it a tutorial, because it was super easy!

I started with this pendant I found at Michael’s.  I looked for one with a plain bezel and a medallion which looked like I’d be able to easily pry off.  I also have some smaller blanks that I grabbed at Pick Your Plum, but I wanted something a little bigger for this project.

Well looky there!  One little wiggle with a butter knife and off it came.  It was basically a sticker.  
Gather up your supplies.  I used DMC pearl cotton embroidery floss and a scrap of linen cut larger than the bezel.  Sketch the letter or trace a font you like and backstitch over the line.  For the French knots, I drew dots out so I could be sure they were evenly spaced.
I had initially planned to add some batting and cut some cardboard to stretch the piece over, but I tried putting it back over the rounded medallion and it worked very nicely!  I just used my trusty glue gun to adhere the whole thing back into the bezel.  Then I added a jump ring and a chain.  Easy peasy!
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