I knew it was a while since I started this piece, but was stunned to check back through my archive and find it was 2012! We were doing a redwork workshop at Embroiderers’ Guild, stitching cups, plates, teapots etc. in various stitches with red threads. I’m not the biggest fan of red, so don’t have a lot of red threads and also, crockery to me always means blue and white, so I went off piste a bit and started to stitch this bowl.
It’s a big piece for me and shortly after I took this photo, something else became more pressing and it lapsed. As the huge french knot piece is currently still in abeyance, I wanted something slightly more long term to stitch and the bluework fitted the bill. I’ve not done an awful lot more, but I have finished the leaves on the ribbon rose section, which are two lazy daisy stitches nested inside each other.
I even managed to find a close match for the thread – there was no chance that after 4+ years I was going to remember what I’d originally used!!
My plan was that each section of the bowl would be filled with a different flower design, using different techniques and styles, so several happy hours have been spent on Pinterest gathering inspiration and I’m looking forward to getting going with it again.
This is beautiful. I get a great sense of calm from it.
Oh, this will be such fun to do!
Really, really,lovely!
This looks like such a great fun project! You’ve reminded me of a ‘blue’ piece I was planning on starting about ten years ago!
2012……don’t the years fl when we look back at projects, finished and unfinished. I do love those beautiful roses….
this is pretty! What a lovely project – so freeing to choose your own stitches for each part