Robin and Me - quick pencil sketch embroidery

 

Robin and Me - Gool Peran Lowen !

                   Gool Peran Lowen !  Happy St Piran's Feast Day ! 

🌿Robin and Me 🤍🌿

 

Robin and me

 A combination of it being a very busy time of getting my vegetable garden going again and also of not being well for a while . 

I was carrying my needlework basket around with me everywhere we went , but just had no time at all to squeeze in any stitching .

I have had a couple of birds that have become quite tame and who would fly in for seeds and nuts . The Jackdaw who strangely visited every morning at around ten o'clock  , the blackbirds who come to me for grapes and a couple of Robins who love biscuit crumbs or suet pellets .

The Robins are very familiar with me ,always watching as I turn the earth in my garden , and hopping about my feet .

During the recent  coldest weather , one of the Robins has been coming to my hands for crumbs . 

My heart almost stops as he flies in to me . He is the sweetest little soul in the garden . With the sweetest song 🎶🎵🎶🎶💚🌿

I did a little scribbly pencil sketch of him and later on I thought I might embroider it . 

 I'm still not sure whether to use crewel wool , cotton or silk . . . or even to just leave it as it is . 

I made a little start . . . but . . . 

I'm still thinking about it . 

         💐☀️🕊️     Happy Spring to everyone . . 

                    or maybe it is Happy Autumn for some down under 🍁❄️🍂🌙

             Whatever it is for you , be inspired !  

Of Sea Monsters , Ships and Mermaids ⚓

 

As tempting as it is for me to start filling this in .  I think I am going to hold back for now on that . I  think that just this simple outline will work for what I am doing .

This is for a family history project that I'm working on .

I need time to stand back and think about it . The other fish in my last project just wasn't right .

I think this one is more appropriate  . 

I think my husband's Great Grandfather would like this one .

Looking forward to doing something a bit different now for a while  . 

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Of Sea Monsters , Ships and Mermaids

 

I am still working on this .....but we are coming into the "busy time" in the garden and I have been tidying and sowing seeds . 

 

Today is sunny , but I am feeling cold . So here I am snuggled on my bed with my hot water bottles again . Doing a little more .  

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Of Sea Monsters , Ships and Mermaids

 

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Of Sea Monsters , Ships and Mermaids

 

                                  Oh ! These dark and dreary , stormy winter days ! 

....and the last few days here in the U.K. have been particularly stormy and cold .

 I have Sweet Peppers and Passion flower seeds germinating on my bedroom windowsill  and in the surrounding fields of Cornwall the daffodils are beginning to bloom . Spring will soon be here , the flowers know !

While the wind is rattling the roof tiles , rain lashing against the windows .... 

I am snuggled up on my bed with two hot-water bottles , a bundle of wool and another fishy project on the go . 

It is another piece for a family history project I'm working on . This fish is from an antique sea-faring map . It is slightly different to the last one I was working on , which turned out lovely , but too much like a koi carp .

 Hopefully the colours I've chosen this time will be more suitable . 

I may not fill it all in this time . Maybe just do the outline . 

I'll just go with the flow and see what happens . 

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Lucky Red Fish

 So as you already know , I was getting mighty fed up with my fishy embroidery . I had  been stitching in poor light and on reflection decided that I didn't like the pink colour .....ugh...horrible salmon pink !

I decided to throw in some bright colour to make it exciting again .....and I pulled out the brightest and cheeriest red that I could find .

I also thought I might throw lots of gold and beads and sparkly things at it ! 

 But along came Christmas and the New Year celebrations and I just had no quiet time to myself ...and usually I carry my embroidery work along with me , everywhere I go , in my basket and to carry all these beads and gold threads was just impossible !

But also in my mind I feel that sewing on beads and gold threads  is , for me , a big cheat . I have not made my mind up yet . 

The red crewel wool however , is just the perfect fireworks ! 

I have just discovered that Red Sea Bream is a lucky fish for the Japanese  and especially for the New Year celebrations . 

I think that red fish are also lucky for the Chinese  . 

Thou Shalt Have a Fishy -🦈

I was beginning to get a bit bored with this to be honest . The light in the hotel room was not very good and now that I look at it in day light , it is looking a bit pale and bland . Something needs to be done .

It needs some brighter colours to be thrown in !

.......and maybe ....a little bling !

Maybe ...lots of bling ! 🌿⚓🌿

🦈 My embroidery fish - update ⚓