03 March 2014

Wingless Bird

I will miss embroidery class this afternoon, my sister is arriving for a few days and I have to collect her from the airport; It will be lovely to see her, but it does cut down on my stitching time!! I spent yesterday afternoon working on my bird so I shouldn't be too far behind for class next week. I have almost finished the bird, she still needs her bling gold collar and I have no idea how to make her detached wing, but she is looking ok so far.

The tail is finished, a mixture of stem stitch in silks, couched silk wrapped purl and couched gold threads...
and her head feathers, stitched in soie de paris with fern stitch...
I have stitched the first of the leaves, stem stitch outline in soie crystale with a fly stitch filling...

And the mound at the bottom, stem stitch, chain stitch and cable stitch in three shades of soie d'alger; I am not sure about this part, it looks a bit messy I may unpick it...
But overall it is coming along nicely

10 comments:

  1. She is looking great. Love the red!! Enjoy your sister.

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  2. Beautiful work! I love what you are doing with these projects.

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  3. it is looking so lovely! love the colors and the design

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  4. Wow, it's gorgeous! Hope you have a good time with your sister.

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  5. Looks beautiful, Elaine!! Enjoy the time with your sister!

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  6. Elaine -- WOW! Just beautiful. Can't wait to watch it progress. Karen

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  7. What lovely stitchery, it really adds so much and its such a pleasure to see, thank you for posting

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  8. This is looking really beautiful now - so glad I remembered to come back and see it! xCathy

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  9. Might the mounds look better if the uppermost line were in the heaviest stitch, and then the next two lines were slimmer? Perhaps you could do a tryout on a spare bit of cloth - before unpicking anything!

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