Hi! Sorry for the late reply, haven't checked on this account in a while.

You're right, this is on aida, which does unravel if you leave it as is. To prevent this, I cut the aida, leaving a 1 square gap all the way around. Then I added self-adhesive felt to the back, cut it to size, and stitched all the way around to protect the edges of the aida. The adhesive makes it pretty secure on its own, but stitching around the edges is just extra security, plus I just like the look of the border.

You can't actually see the self-adhesive felt though, because after that I added normal (non-adhesive) felt (that's the blue backing you can see), cut holes into it, popped on the brooch clasps, and stitched around the edges go attach the felt to the aida. I don't think it really needed two layers of felt, but I had already added the adhesive felt before I realized I wanted to add the brooch clasps.

Hmm, good to know. I'll continue adding the other images to the body then.

No problem! Ah, yes, sometimes I find those back burner projects need a concerted push from me to actually get done. Best of luck with your patch!

Thank you! Oh good, I'm glad my messing around with the formatting paid off then! I definitely agree. I'm way more likely to skip posts if I have to click a link to view the images, so it's nice to be able to include them directly in the body of the post.

Haha, I'm still trying to wrap my head around Lemmy. Thanks for letting me know! Is there a way to add multiple inline images for an album, other than just adding them to the body?

Thank you! I love lighthouse patterns too!

I stitched the pattern onto aida like normal. Then added self-adhesive felt to the back to act as interfacing and stitched all the way around that to protect the edges of the aida from fraying. And finally I cut holes into normal (non-adhesive) felt, popped in the brooch clasps, and stitched around the edges to attach it to the back. It probably didn't need two layers of felt, but it didn't occur to me that I could use brooch clasps until after I'd already stitched the self-adhesive felt on.