I love, love, love how this one turned out. Yay for Beach Day!
Aside from liking the beach, I bought this sampler because I was curious about how to make the hat. How does one get embroidery to stick up like that?
In this case, I was instructed to do couching stitch to build up half of a sphere and then cover it with detached buttonhole. Brilliant! The base of the flip flop is just chain stitch, but with that thread color, it looks like a rattan sandal.
This stitched up fast, too! Probably the hardest part was tying that bow.
I too love, love, love it. Makes me even more excited to go to the beach.