More Stitches Pulled

[perzephone]

I filled up the hole I made in my embroidery piece. Now that spot just looks kind of puckered and sloppy.

I removed the red bars, and I'm thinking I'll take out the black border as well. Before I started mending the cut I made, I had envisioned this mandala in bright, strong colors. Now it's all blues & greens, so the red bars & black border are iffy. I'm going to turn the red bar spaces into blue waves.

There will be 5 rows of the turquoise beads, that much I know. I started trying to make braids of deep green & blues, but when I tried to couch them on to the wavy lines in the bottom circle, I found out how difficult couching can be. I think it would work better with a thicker, slightly stiffer type of floss or specialty yarn, not a loosely braided hunk of embroidery floss.

It's kind of cool doing this at work because I invariably end up w/an audience. It's like no one's ever seen anyone embroider anything.

Here is the ensuing picspam:

Comments

[moonvoice]

I kind of like the dark border with the blues and greens, it's looking really cool! I couldn't do something like this, so seeing someone else work on it and even pointing out things like mistakes or things they don't like is kind of a really cool process for me.

*voyeurs some more*

Easier Than It Looks

[perzephone]

I think you'd do magnificent embroidery. You do cross-stitch, and it's not that much of a leap. You'd be even better because you can draw your own patterns. I steal other people's shit from coloring books :D In fact,that's all embroidery really is - coloring with thread.

I like your WiPs & Azhure's musing on her writing process, so of course I'm going to reciprocate now that I'm actually making something.

As far as the dark border goes, I'm going to take the black out & replace it with browns - a lighter brown 'hoop' with darker brown 'stitching', like a dream-catcher frame.