Jo Lynch from Adelaide, Australia made this cutwork project, using some of these pansy designs. Jo is also a very active member on my ElsasEmbroideryFriends list and she encourages other list members with her beautiful projects. The following is the instructions that Jo gave the other list members, who wanted to know how she did it: First of all I use a Janome 10001 Programs Embird & Easy Edit. Firstly I combined  2 Designs in Embird and saved it as one design then went to Easy Edit Selected 4 pages Centered the first design. After that I just played with the combined design from Embird until I thought it looked like a cutwork border and just sent it to the machine. Printed a Template and just sewed it out. After the embroidery was completed I used Fray Stop all around the edge of the design - let it dry and cut the border. The thing I did not say was that this was purely an experiment. Elsa did not digitize the pansys for Cut Work so they do not have the little running stitch around the edge for cutting up to--hence you have to be very careful not to cut any of the embroidery.

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