Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Introducing the Heron

During the summer Becky Hogg showed off her latest design on Instagram. If you'll remember, last year a group of us were doing a stitch-a-long of of Becky's kits. I was working on Foxy, while Natalie (Sew by Hand) and Catherine (Hillview Embroidery) were working on the Owl. As soon as we saw the Heron, we decided that this would be our next stitch-a-long.


This time around, our group has grown to include two more members: Carolyn and Pam. They don't have a blog but you can follow them on Instagram.


The plan was to order our kits once they were available and plan for a start in October. Things got delayed a bit on account of many of us being busy with other projects, but we finally agreed to start this past week.


As soon as I saw the pictures on Instagram, I really fell in love with the color palette. The blues goes very well with the silver. The design also includes a material I never used before which is silk wrapped purl. I always like to try something new when I pick a kit.


Our first goal is to put in all the padding and stitch the legs. It just so happened that the instructions said to put in the beak before the legs, so that was done as well.

(click on the post to see the animation below)


So here is the beginning of my Heron. The next step is the head, but I will give the group time to catch up, while I work on Hanabatake.


Speaking of Hanabatake, I'm almost done. I need a week, at most two, to finish. In my last update I mentioned planning to order more beads. That's been done, now I just need to wait for them to be delivered and hope I don't run out before then.


4 comments:

  1. That heron does look very special - looking forward to watching him grow!

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  2. The herron is fabulous! Hanabatake is outstanding!

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  3. I agree, it is such a lovely design, and possibly my favourite one of hers! I need to catch up this weekend.

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  4. I've seen your WIP pics of the heron on Instagram and was wondering about it. He'll be gorgeous! I hadn't seen Foxy before, but that one was adorable.

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