My Steeple Aston Cope Embroidery - Angel Playing Lute 🎼🎶

Not far to go now . The borders seem to be going on forever . I do feel that they have made quite a difference and I am glad I decided to do them either side .

                            So I stitched and stitched and stitched .

                     ....and stitched and stitched some more .

This is not a tutorial , but you can see what I'm doing , this is very simple stitches . Going over and over like this , is giving it a very slightly raised effect .  It's giving it a nice texture too .

I have visitors for the next six weeks , but hopefully I can find some time to finish the embroidery on this. 

I want to add another border of very dark green cloth around the whole piece before framing it .

I have been carrying this Angel around with me everywhere we've been for months !

Everyone should carry an Angel in their basket !

Now that the main part of the embroidery is done , I am going to put it aside again for a little while .

I'll show you when it's done .

Next 

         🌿   I want to finish off my mermaid 🐬🌿⚓

     

The Steeple Aston Cope

 I enjoyed embroidering the Steeple Aston Cope - Lute playing Angel on the most beautiful and cheekiest horse ...I enjoyed making my hands do what those medieval hands did and I love the medieval humour .Cotton threads and silk....odd bits of gold threads and tiniest seed beads on the horse's bridle and breast collar ...and this took me a couple of years to do ...through some difficult times .

          This Angel  was my first attempt at using real silk threads .