Another Angel embroidery 🌿

 I'm back !  I have been really busy in my vegetable garden . So busy that I have had no time to myself to sit and do my embroidery .

However , I have made a jolly good start out there , everything planted out and now the sun has returned after weeks of mizzle and fog .

There is nothing more to be done except the watering of everything early in the morning ...and hopefully soon be harvesting some lovely fresh produce .

Happy Summer Solstice to you ...or Happy Winter Solstice if you happen to live "down under " .

Here on the Lizard Cornwall it is hot hot hot ! Too hot for me ! 

So now I plan to put my feet up , sit in the shade and pick up my embroidery once again .

I have put aside the Pocket Prayer Oratory for a little while , because I have been feeling inspired to embroider another Angel .  It is from a medieval stained glass window .

I came across it on Pinterest . It didn't say which church it is from . I am on a mission to find out .

 Anyway I love it and am going to embroider it .

I love embroidering Angels .  I feel their presence , their invisible influence when I'm stitching them .

 Been sorting out all my needles , linen and silk threads .

 I made a simple sketch of the Angel onto my linen with a pencil taping the linen and the picture onto a window .

 I'm just using plain ordinary sewing cotton to go over the outline before I begin to embroider with my lovely silk thread .

                       I always start with the face .

 I will continue to stitch over these lines and eventually I'll be able to roll it up and take it out with me on our travels . 

                                     Peace and Love 🕊️

                                            Debbie x

Sacred Heart of Jesus ❤️‍🔥miniature embroidery finished

 

I added a little touch of gold on the Crucifix and I think I will leave it there now .

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Sunday Evening Stitching ❤️‍🔥Sacred Heart Embroidery Progress

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Sacred Heart of Jesus - Little Pocket Prayer Oratory continued ❤️‍🔥

I have almost finished this little piece ,which will become the front flap of my little pocket prayer oratory .

I'm not totally happy with the halo where it meets the doves wings , it doesn't come in enough . I will come back to that and sort it out !

I gave myself until Pentecost to finish this Holy Spirit piece .

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Meanwhile .....

This will be the inside . 

I'm working the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the centre .

I have sketched it , ever so lightly with a pencil .

Then stitched the outline with red DeVere Yarns silk thread .

Then it was very late , so I didn't do very much .

☀️Today the sun is shining . I took my embroidery things out side and I thought I could do a bit more  , but as it turned out it was a tad too breezy and my things kept blowing off my lap ! 

I only managed to do a little bit more . 

Now I'm thinking that I need to go over the Crown of Thorns . 

It would have been better if I had embroidered the heart first then worked the Crown of Thorns over the top of it .

It's a very small piece , so I really mustn't try to make it too detailed . 

That said , I am pleased with how it's coming along . I do know where I'm going with this !

Silk thread is very slippery ,  I'm not sure where I put my Thread Heaven (thread conditioner ) .

                               I'll do some more after lunch .

                                          love Debbie 🐝

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🌿Olive branch 🕊️🌿

                         I found a little time to put in an Olive branch .

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Come Holy Spirit - Little White Dove Embroidery 🌿🕊️🌿

 

I am so busy in the vegetable garden at the moment , I have had hardly any time for my embroidery . Here's a very quick update .  🕊️

I'm still working on it . I've started the "tongues of fire " that descended upon the Apostle's heads enabling them to understand and speak in different languages to take the word of God out into the world and the birth of the Christian church . I need to throw in some fiery orange and gold .

A white dove in the Christian church symbolises the Holy Spirit .....it is of course globally known as a symbol of peace , purity and hope . I am going to combine the two and give him an Olive branch . 🌿

I'm still using silk thread but have changed over to DeVere Yarns .

I'm just grabbing a few minutes here and there to do a little more and I'm making it up as I go . Drawing my design with a very fine chalk pencil , you might have seen it in an earlier post . Works well for me on this dark linen . It's very faint and brushes away easily .

              All fer now !  🤍🪷🕊️ Love Debbie x

Little White Dove Embroidery 🕊️

 

  I'm using lovely silk thread from The Silk Mill 🤍 Hands sore and chapped from gardening  🌿🌱🐝🐞Silk threads catching on chapped  hands sets my teeth on edge ! Need to moisturise .  Probably would have been easier to stitch with DMC cotton threads .  

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Little Pocket Prayer Oratory - Come Holy Spirit 🕊️

 

                  

                           Needlework had been put on hold for the time being .

I'm still here though ! Been busy sowing seeds and getting the vegetable garden up and running .

All is going well and today we had our first salad with home grown lettuce and baby kale .Tomatoes and Cucumbers are coming along , soon to be put into the greenhouse .

With fruit and vegetables in the shops becoming so expensive I'm trying to grow as much as I can .

    I'm growing lots of salad leaves to pick in the shed ....safe from snails  🐌

As well as all the garden duties  , we've had several trips to the dentist to contend with and whenever I have had some time to sit down and relax ....it's been too noisy again .

I am doing a small project . One that I can bring with me in my bag , for whenever I might find the odd five minutes to stitch .

           It will eventually be a little pocket prayer oratory .

                         I'm doing a tiny and very simple dove on the front .  

                        Hoping I can get him finished in time for Pentecost .

                    Anyway , here are a few pics of my progress 🕊️

   I hope you all had a very Happy Easter .  love Debbie 💐x 

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Little Holiday in Charmouth -✨Little Angel came too ! 💛

 

So we've had a nice little holibobs in both Somerset and Dorset, mainly to go dinosaur hunting in Charmouth which is in Dorset .

                   

We stayed in a sweet little 18th century period cottage in Somerset ; which meant a very long drive to the beach , but husband decided it was reasonably priced and that it would be very well worth it .

We visited Montecute House , Bridport , Lyme Regis , Glastonbury , Burton Bradstock and Groves Nursery and of course Charmouth beach . 

Because of the rainy weather and the country roads being unfamiliar to us , we always tried to get back to the cottage well before dark .

Then we would have our teatime in front of the woodburning stove , with cups of tea , sandwiches and cake .

Then I would leave him in the lounge watching his American football 🙄

I would go into the cosy and warm , little dining room , where I really enjoyed sitting at this lovely Georgian table sketching and doing my embroidery .

  I had brought lots of things to do .... no internet, no radio , just the sound of the rain on the window .

These colourful embroidery doodlings are from a Hildegard von Bingen project I am doing .

Whoever would have thought such bright colours and patterns could be from the 12th century illustrations/artwork !

I love them very much  . 

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                                     Naturally , my angel came too !

                                   I wanted to finish the background .

                 I soon finished the background and decided to outline her angel wings .

 I think it looks better now . I'm just going to do a little more work on her angel gown .

✨I do love embroidering Angels ✨💛✨ I was delighted to find this little Angel hanging up almost hidden behind the curtains in my bedroom !✨✨✨

 

I have been planning to start a Perpetual Botanical Watercolour Journal .

I have the journal , the paints the brushes and everything all ready to go at home but I just can't seem to get started . 

  I want to record the Snowdrops , the Mistletoe , the sweet lambs in the meadows and a tiny first Ladybird of the year .

 I will try again when we get home .

                    I did manage to sketch and embroider this Snowdrop .  

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