Still a lot of trailing to go, but I can now also work on the body of the peacock.
The main body is worked in 60/2 cotton lace thread in a darning stitch
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| Darning stitch body |
The feathers are worked freehand in fishbone stitch in DMC Retours d'Alsace which is similar to cotton perle
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| Fishbone stitch feathers |
The eyelet eye is in 60/2 cotton lace thread and the ladder stitch branch is a cotton a broder cordonnet with 50/3 lace thread for the pulled stitches and a single strand of Retours trailed on the outside edge. I have also worked the beak in padded satin stitch with stranded cotton.
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| Eyelet and ladder stitch |
Now for the tail feathers.........
It looks fascinating, and it's growing nicely, too...
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