Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Weekend Update

I'm the type who likes to plan their weekend. With that in mind, I picked two projects and devoted my days to work on them. The first one was Alison Cole's Bearded Iris. I hadn't touched this piece since October and have been feeling terribly guilty about it. Not to mention I need the frame that piece is one right now.


I worked on it on and off last week trying to get those leaves done. I love couching, but the plunging and tying down is so tedious.


And there was a lot of it as you can see from the back of the piece. Most of my Saturday was spent plunging and tying down.


With the leaves finally done, I could go back to working on the iris. I started putting in the veins on the petals.


On Sunday, I devoted the day for Japanese Embroidery. I continued working on the iris leaves. I ended up unpicking the top leaf near the clover flowers and fixing it. It looks better now.

The leaves are almost done, just need to stitch the bottom portion. Before I can do that, I need to put in the outline on the wrapping paper. And before that happens, I need to stitch in the cord wrapped around it. So that will be my main focus this Sunday.


4 comments:

  1. Plunging and tyeing down is pretty tedious, isn't it - but worth it when it's done!

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  2. I can definitely sympathise with plunging and tying back. I am still scarred from my koala...

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  3. Oh, I´m having trouble commenting. Lovely work and I think all the boring plunging and tying back will be well worth it in the end.

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  4. Great choice of projects! I'm very curious to see how the iris flower will look like when finished, the material looks very interesting.

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