Well, I got there in the end and I must say I'm quite pleased with the result. I learnt a lot, - you can make a tight turn with silk shading, and you can do small shapes and to replicate botany you need to be a botanist, which I'm not! I used three shades of green DMC, pale grey and pale blue, pink and lavender, four shades of red and a brown for the shading. I could have used twice as many, but I had deliberately restricted my palette.
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| The finished poppy |
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| Small spray of pale blue flowers |
It is my take on a historic piece of embroidery, not a replica. I only had a photo to follow and have never studied the dress and I did it for me to practice embroidery that might be used on clothing. I'm glad I persevered, that's something I've got better at, so onto the next sampler.
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| Spray of sweet peas |
This will go into my little book of samplers that I'm making for C&G. Now I'm off to Pinterest to see what takes my fancy.......
It does look lovely, and it is certainly a great success as a sampler. I'm sure your C&G teache1r will be asking you for ideas for extensions and other pieces or techniques in the same vein...
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel I will point your suggestion out to my C&G teacher, she certainly won't let me slack! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is absolutely amazing!!! Congrats
ReplyDeleteI do love the shade you have chosen it is to much to ask for the Dmc numbers have you used?
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Hi Graciela Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry I don't have the numbers it was a very quick study I did with left over threads. They are coppery tones with dark brown for the centre not black. Hope this helps a bit. Pippa
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