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 !

                                                 🌿🕊️🌿

 

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   !

                                                          💛🖤💛🖤💛

Angel playing a Rebec Embroidery - Halo

 

                                           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 .

                                                         🌿☀️🌿    

Angel playing a Rebec Embroidery - Halo and Hair 🕊️

               I managed to finish the Angel's chemise yesterday .

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 .  🤗

                                                           🌿☀️🌿

Midnight stitching - Angel chemise

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 . 

                                                         🌿 ⛵ 🌿

Angel Playing a Rebec Embroidery - Chemise 🕊️

                               Almost finished that fiddle .

I'll come back to work on it little more later on .

The rosettes, the bow and the strings   .

Sorry that pic's a bit blurred  .        

             I embroidered the fold shadows of the Angel's chemise .

         .....and now I'm doing the chemise itself .... might take me a while !

                                                        🌿🕊️🌿 

Angel Playing a Rebec Embroidery 💛🌿🎶

                                                                     🌿🎶🌿

                                                                      🌿💛🌿 

                                                                     🌿☀️🌿

Angel Playing a Rebec Embroidery - Wings 🤍🌿

                  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 .....

                                One feather at a time .

               The back 😊

The wings of this Angel are fantastic ; going from the left side , sweeping down above the Angel's head , around to the right side , behind and below the rebec .

I have almost finished the Angel's wings and am thinking where to go next ?

                           Peace and Love  🕊️

                                Debbie 🕊️🌿x

Midnight Stitching 🌒✨

 

                                    Midnight stitching  

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Angel Playing a Rebec - Wing Feathers

 

  I started out with one thread in the needle but then decided to use two threads .

Hard to photograph because of the camera flash and the silk being so shiny .

                         Of course , I'm doing proper Angel feathers !  🕊️

    It is still very hot here and I have just today started suffering with hay fever .

 No idea what triggered it ...... so ...sniff.....

                   I am a bit snuffly and have a runny nose  .... 

                  I wish you all a happy weekend . 

                              Yes go and make it a great weekend !

                                 Love and Peace 🕊️

                                       Debbie 💐x