Slow progress on the Reeds piece for my Kew Memory Journal but still progress – remembering to move forward one stitch at a time.
But other things have been happening. A beach day on the Lincolnshire coast with my youngest before she returned to school.
Experimenting with embroidery on a cut silk cocoon…
…and a chunk of driftwood.
At the moment it looks like an embarrassed octopus but I plan to add bead, pearl and coral dangles to the ends of the ‘legs’ and stick it down close to follow the contours of the driftwood chunk. I love the black scribbly spalting on the bottom. Then, hopefully, it will become a pendant.
I found a couple of commercial pouches when I was clearing out a box and offered them to the friend I made the pouches for a few months ago.
She asked me to add embroidery to the fronts so she could use them for tarot/oracle cards. A triskele on the silver one and a dragonfly on the indigo. Triskele first with a base layer of chain stitch in lovely heavy weight variegated green perle.
Then whipped in a green/pink/copper variegated perle to give it even more weight…
…before blanket stitching it onto the front of the pouch.
I’ve drawn the dragonfly out onto some shibori dyed cotton I did at a course years ago but have stalled looking for a scrap of iridescent fabric I want to use for the wings. I was sure I knew where it was, but am having an increasingly nasty feeling that I ‘tidied it away’ during the recent deep clean of the lounge…
Under A Topaz Sky 