upkeron.blogg.se - Remembrance poppy earrings

(A note: Pearl necklaces are all identified simply by their number of strands not because they are the same necklace, but because they're hard to identify by different names)

2015: Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings, Two Strand Pearl Necklace, Queen Alexandra's Wedding Brooch.2014: Queen Alexandra's Wedding Earrings, Two Strand Pearl Necklace, Richmond Brooch.2013: Queen Mary's Button Earrings, Three Strand Pearl Necklace, Williamson Diamond Brooch.

They really do stand out nicely, eh? Just make sure you’ve memorized the poem so you can thoroughly explain to quizzical non-Canadians just why the heck you’re wearing a poppy in November. Stitch right around the edge of the poppy’s black centre, so that the red stitching is pretty much invisible on the front.ħ) Stitch your pin backing or a large safety pin to the back of the flower.Ĩ) Pin to your coat and wear outside. This gives your poppy some shape, rather than just letting it sit flat against your coat.Ħ) Still using red thread, the small flower to the larger flower. I double stitched mine in place to make sure they stayed put.Ĥ) Using your red thread now, take the larger red flower and sew a rough circle of large stitches around its centre.ĥ) Before knotting the thread, pull on it a bit so the felt flower puckers and gathers in the middle. (Or pin the templates to the felt and cut around them.) One larger flower and one smaller flower from the red felt, and a small circle-with-scalloped-edges from the black felt.Ģ) Sew the black circle to the small red flower, using stitches of varying lengths that go well into the red area.ģ) If desired, sew small black beads overtop of the black felt.

poppy template(or you can draw your own)ġ) Trace and cut out your shapes.

Every Canadian child (even I, who grew up in the States) memorized this poem at some point during their school years. For some time after the fighting, red poppies grew profusely on the battlefields, due to the soil becoming rich in poppy-growing nutrients from all the war-zone rubble. Many World War I soldiers lie in unmarked graves in the region of Flanders, Belgium, where a great deal of fighting took place. The reference goes back to a poem titled Flanders Fields, and attributed to John McCrae. But for those Canadian ex-pats less outrageously forward-planning, or Canadians (ex-pats or not) who keep having the darn things come unpinned and make a leap for freedom whenever their purse shifts slightly, here is a very simple, very quick tutorial for making your own Remembrance Day poppies.įor those non-Canadians wondering, as my school friends did, what the heck I’m talking about, the poppies represent Canadian soldiers who died in the World Wars, hence their significance for Remembrance Day. I imagine she saved them from before she moved away. I don’t know how my mom got the authentic plastic given-out-by-Canadian-veterans-in-malls poppies down there. Canadians pretty much blend right in south of the 49th parallel, given enough time, but you can sometimes pick them out by looking for a few weird habits, like celebrating Thanksgiving a month and a half early, and like wearing plastic poppies in early November.

When I was a kid growing up in the Midwest, each November my American friends would ask me why I was wearing a red flower on my coat.