Little Angel - Roses for the Queen of Heaven 🌹update

                           I found some more of the pale blue wool !  Hooray ! 

 

I wasn't sure if it was 886 🙃 or 988 😃 but I was very happy to have found a good hank of the perfect match .

   Appletons do small skeins and large hanks , which is useful if you're doing a larger project .

   For something more important I would normally get enough from the same dye lot ....but for this little project , I think it looks good enough .

I gathered up a few bundles of wool to complete the background , halo and her face . 

 I don't want to keep fiddling about too much incase I spoil it ; but I'm not quite happy with it yet .

 She needs a cute little nose !

🌿🕊️Sitting in the car  , doing my embroidery  😊🌿

Carefully matching up the same pale flesh colour that I had used on her face  ......

                       .....with one tiny stitch I gave her a much nicer  nose ! 

   

  I took this picture with the shadow over it so that you might see it more clearly .

             💛  I finished her halo and next I will continue filling in the background .🩵

                                              🌿🤍  Love and Peace  🕊️ 🌿

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Little Angel - Roses for the Queen of Heaven 🌹

 I started to fill in the background ....loosely to begin with as I am not sure if I have enough of this pale blue crewel wool .

And while I am stitching away , I am thinking that I need to change her face , just a little  .

                                 That's better ! 💛

  Next to embroider her halo and go find some more of that pale blue wool for the background .

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                                                       Love and Peace  

 

Little Angel - Roses for the Queen Of Heaven 🌹

 

                     🌹    So today I am trying to remember how to do Bullion Stitch !  🌹 

I can do it , but it is a little bit more fiddly when you do it with crewel wool .

It is far easier with cotton or silk threads and also using a bullion knot or milliner's needle helps .

I am using a chenille needle which has a large eye through which to thread crewel wool .

With patience , concentration and a little more care .....  

The fiddley bit is where you gently pinch those loops and slide them down and off the needle and down into the hole you first came up through . 

But this is no way meant to be a tutorial . It is best to have someone sit beside you and show you .

And then practice makes perfect ...or in my case a few tangles first !  

The technique soon came back to me . 

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Little Angel - Roses for the Queen of Heaven 🌹

                    ✨⭐    I am still working on this little angel . ⭐✨ 

                She was to go on the Christmas tree , but I didn't have time to finish her .

                      I'm just thinking , angels are not just for Christmas anyway !

    ✨⭐   It's  just a little comforter piece stitched with wool . Making it up as I go . ⭐✨

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Merry Christmas !

 

                              Wishing everyone a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas .

  It is a bitterly cold day today , windy ,  dark and gloomy . 

I have brought in more kindling to keep the fire going .

 We have hot water bottles on our laps and blankets to keep us warm .

               I have almost finished this sweet little chap .

I am just working on the grapes . Colonial knots again . 

I find Colonial Knots quite therapeutic .  This piece which I embroidered , is from the 12th century manuscript illuminations and art of St Hildegarde von Bingen  .

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Early Medieval Bird Illumination embroidery - update 3

 

Sitting in the car doing a bit of embroidery while husband has his hospital appointment .

               I made a very slow start on this leaf . I couldn't remember how best to do it !

It was cold and I forgot to bring my hot water bottle and warm blanket this time .

                              I muddled my way along with it !  

At home , later on , I finished the two leaves .

Me thinks they don't look too bad . 

I then made a start working the grape-vine stems in stem stitch .

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 Illumination from manuscript known as the Sacramentaire de Gellone 780-800 - 8th century

Early Medieval Bird Illumination embroidery - update no 2

 

                                                                      

Early Medieval Bird Illumination crewel embroidery 🌲

 Look at that gorgeous linen ! Much nicer to handle than the cotton fabric I used in my last project .

So this little illumination design comes from a manuscript known as the Sacramentaire de Gellone - 8th century - 780 - 800 .  So very old !  

 

Almost finished ! ⚓

 

Took me a very long time to do all those lines ! It really makes a difference though .

I regret not using linen . This cotton gets very crumpled  .

I folded it over and hand stitched it into a little purse .

 I hemmed the top , in readiness for inserting a simple drawstring  . 

I have to put it aside for a while as I need to buy some drawstring cord or tape . Also I may add some tassels along the bottom of the purse ....but , I  haven't decided yet  .

So then , on to the next little project .......

Early Medieval Fish Illumination - Embroidery- waves ⚓

I've gone back to this one again .

I decided to fill in all the lines in between the fish , representing the waves , as on the manuscript illumination .  

I have mentioned before that this is from an 11th century lectionary manuscript illumination from the Abbey de Silos . In the National Library France .

I'm using cotton embroidery thread for these very thin lines . It's going to take a long time stitching them in .

 It must have taken a very long time and a great deal of care for the monk scribe drawing them in with his quill and ink .

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My Little Early Medieval Embroidery Bag 🕊️🌿

 I embroidered a little more of this . I hand stitched it into a useful little needlework bag  .

                                          I think it is just about done . 

 I may just embroider an initial or some small thing in the space where my scissors are in this picture .

 I do have something in mind , so I will be coming back to this again soon .

              I could also add something , maybe , to each end of the toggle .

           It is perfect for just the few essentials I need when doing my embroidery .

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