WIPW - Ruby Red

Work In Progress Wednesday is here again! So quickly!

Crazy for Crazy

I made a new naked block in ruby red. Most of the fabric comes from remnants of evening gowns. A friend who is a seamstress and specializes in party frocks gave me a bag of scrap fabric. Red seems to be a popular colour, or are they all from party dresses for Christmas?
The dark red fabric with machine embroidery at the top is a swatch used by a traveling salesman from Switzerland selling fabric in Africa many years ago. Through the generosity of the salesman's granddaughter it came into my possession.

In the centre I placed a piece of red canvas onto which I have made three hearts in Cross and Half Cross Stitch.

In my previous WIPW report I showed the kumihimo braid I am making. Several readers said this kind of braid making is confusing. With the pictures below I am trying to explain how it is worked.

What comes out of the hole in the centre of the disc is this braid!

It is not a complicated technique, but if you work quickly your head might spin with the constant turning of the disc and the swinging of the bobbins.