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*