Been very busy in the vegetable garden . But there were a couple of appointments to the health centre where I sat waiting in the car and I always have some embroidery on my lap .
Especially nice having an Angel in the car with me .
Halo almost finished .
I think I will be doing some work on the black areas next .
There is more work to be done on the odd yellow shapes both above and below .
We're hoping for some over- night rain , to refresh our vegetable garden and sweeten the air .
Hope you're having a nice weekend .
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I made a little start on the halo and hair this morning . For this I have gone back to using my beautiful Silk Mill embroidery thread . I think I have just about enough of it to finish with . I am being careful with it as I can't get hold of anymore while The Silk Mill is temporarily closed .
Still very hot here . I'm sitting on my bed with a nice cooling fan blowing on me . We should be back to our usual Cornish mizzle next week after a good storm over the coming weekend . 🤗
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I actually bought this ivory silk from a lovely Japanese lady on Etsy . It came all the way from Japan ! I had planned to use it on another much larger medieval piece , but then someone put me off just as I was in the process of preparing it . . . advice to self .. always best to keep your powder dry . 🖤💣💥
My creativity comes to me like the waves of the sea and it was as if I'd missed that ninth wave .
I will go back to doing it sometime .
The phase of the moon and the tide of creativity , however, hasn't completely gone out .........
..... and I'm relishing working on this piece .
So time to pause and have a little recap .
I worked some fairly loose stitching over most of the white areas .
I'm not sure yet whether to stitch the folds of the Angel's robes vertically or horizontally . I had originally thought to embroider them vertically but now I have done the under layer , I'm thinking that I quite like it that way ....hmmm.....I'm reviewing the situation 🎵🎶🎶I think I'd better think it out again !
But for now , I'm stitching those beautiful wings . Did you think I was going to leave them like that ?!
I suppose I could have done them like that ....over and over satin stitch ....would have been a quicker way of doing it .
But nope I decided to make them more feather-like .....
It is absolutely beautiful and I sat just looking at it for a very long time .
Hard not to be intimidated by it ....but I took the plunge and decided to pull it gently apart into six bundles and loosely tie it in the middle of each bundle .
I plaited each bundle and tied the ends .
I have also decided to use black DMC 310 cotton embroidery thread for the black lead caming and framing lines of the stained glass window .
It should work as it will be slightly duller than the shine of the surrounding silk .
Having said that DMC embroidery cotton threads do have a slight sheen to them .
Peace and Love 🕊️🌿
Debbie x
