Angel playing a Rebec Embroidery 🕊️Nearly finished 🌿

 

      So I carefully tightened and tuned up the strings . G D A 🎶🎵🎶

Then started lashing it to the frame . Yes I'm resting up a poorly knee .

 Then we had to go out and I sat waiting in the car .I thought I might get this last bit finished ....

        ...... but I dropped my cotton reel down between the seats . I wriggled my fingers , I could touch it , but couldn't quite reach far enough to retreive it .   

So that was the end of that !  Sigh ....

Anyway .....

 It's nearly finished . I just want to put a nice piece of fabric over the back and some sort of a loop with which to hang it .

Presently waiting for the chimney sweep to come , clean and make safe our chimney ..... all ready for yet another wild and windy Cornish winter .

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Not quite finished this piece and I'm already thinking about my next little project .

                     Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                                        Debbie 💐x

Angel Playing a Rebec - I'm still here ! 😃

 Apologies ! I am still here !  We have had a very long heatwave and drought . I have been busy trying desperately to keep my vegetable garden alive . 

We are presently on a hosepipe ban , so running back and forth with two watering cans has been quite hard work . Especially as I am still recovering from a serious spine injury . I'm doing really well now but have to be careful .  Husband helping with the carrying though .....sometimes .

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......and then .....it would become too hot to do anything at all , but flop on my bed with a fan to cool me down !  

We,ve had a couple of slightly cooler nights and some drizzle  . I have been able to pick up my embroidery again . 

     So ...where was I ?

I bought a little frame and began to stitch on a thin piece of cotton quilting batting/wadding .

                It just makes for a nicer base to take the embroidery .

I finished doing that and then remembered , I still have to embroider the strings of the Rebec instrument .

                                   This gold thread is Heavenly !

                                               Perfect !

                                         O.k So here we go !

So how am I going to do this ? 

 ⭐  Plan A)  use a whopping great needle with a hole large enough to take the gold thread and force it through the embroidery ?  🪡

 Yep ! I could do that , but it would make horrible holes through the embroidery and I have to do six plunges for each string so it really would show and not look nice .

⭐ Plan B)    Lasso method .  🪡

So I'll try and show you how I do this .

  You basically thread your needle with sewing cotton double with a knot. Then thread the gold thread through this loop ...like a lasso ......

 Pull on the lasso and it will carry the gold thread through to the other side .

 Leave a long tail to one side .....you could put a temporary holding stitch to stop it slipping through , but I didn't ..it was fine ..it behaved itself .

Next I had to take the gold thread through the Rebec bow and up the other side .

Then again under the bow handle and up the other side .

                                Oh this was terribly fiddly !

                                          Two strings done !

        I had to plunge and lasso six times for each golden string !

I'll be honest , I was a bit worried at this stage .

     Maybe I'd bitten off more than I can chew !

         🎶🎵     Three wobbly and very out of tune strings !    🎶🎵

    Flip over to the reverse and over and over stitch the three gold tails down to secure them .

I tied the tails at the other end and stitched them down . This enabled me to gently tug the strings nice and taught on the front side .

                                     That was very , very stressful  !

                                     I'll show you some more tomorrow !  

                                               Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                                                            Debbie 💐x

Angel Playing a Rebec Embroidery ✨Gold✨

 

                            ✨☀️⭐   I pulled out my box of gold !⭐☀️✨

                  I'm looking for some gold thread for the Rebec strings .

                                Too thin ! .......Too thick !

                  Aha ! .......... I think this thread looks just about right !

                                    Decided to widen the border .

              Maybe thicken up the black line from the shoulder down .

  I've pretty much stayed true to the design of the stained glass window , but I don't think anyone would mind me throwing in a very small touch of gold .

                                Just three golden strings ?

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Angel Playing a Rebec - rosettes

Flopped on my bed with a fan blowing to cool me . Still too hot for me to be outside gardening . 

           I've done a little bit more today . The two rosettes . 

           Actually I spent a couple of hours just embroidering them .

                                     Tomorrow I will embroider the bow .

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Angel Playing a Rebec Embroidery - finger surgery

                  My black DMC embroidery cotton arrived !  

       So this morning we were over in Falmouth , needed to go to B&Q , but we stopped off at Pendennis Point for a little while .  I took my embroidery. I didn't do very much , mainly sat looking at it , thinking which bit to do next  .

    A bit later on , when we were then home again , I got myself all organised in the summerhouse ......but then it was just too hot ....so I packed it all up again .

I took myself upstairs , flopped onto my bed , windows open with a nice cooling  fan on !

       I finally removed that extra finger and it looks so much better now !

                                   Not me silly !! 🤣

For those who don't know what I'm on about , I had stitched an extra finger by mistake .... the Angel's thumb is of course hidden behind the handle of the bow .

                Next I will do the rosettes on the Rebec instrument .

              Is it hot where you are ?  We're praying for rain here !

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Angel playing a Rebec Embroidery - more road trip stitching 🌿

             More road trip stitching . Waiting in the hospital car park .

Waiting in the health centre car park , waiting in the supermarket car parks .. both of them . 

Precious moments !

Life is full of little moments of waiting and I make the most of them !

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   It was hard stitching the odd shapes along the bottom . It is also a bit wearying only using three colours of white , gold and black .

I'm working most of the black areas at the moment .

I need to take away one of those fingers.....the thumb is of course hidden behind the handle of the bow !  A little mistake !   Fiddlesticks !  😄

     ......and then I ran out of black thread !  Drat ! Drat !...and triple drat !

So I ordered some more on Amazon ;  picked up my lovely white silk and continued with the Angel's wings and filling in the background .

I improved the eyes a little bit I think , by adding a small touch of white .

More work to be done on the Angel's Rebec instrument . The rosettes , three strings and the bow hair will be the last to be embroidered . 

                                                   

         My sweetest little friend came to see me again , in the summer house .

                  We enjoy a cup of tea and share a few biscuit crumbs .

                      Hope you're having a nice weekend too 🌿

                                     Peace and love 🕊️🤍

                                                 Debbie 💐x

Angel playing a Rebec - more road trip embroidery !

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 .

       Today I am embroidering the black stained glass window lead areas .

         Here's the reverse , for those who always ask to see the back .  🤪

        Still lots to do  .     I hope to have more embroidery time tomorrow .

                                             Well it's in our Cornish colours   !

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