Monday, March 25

Small steps


I spent some time with Bear yesterday and made good progress. As you can see I am not very bothered about leaving bits of the embroidery unfinished (like the rose). When I get bored or stuck at some point or other, I move on to something else. Eventually it will all get done, honestly!

Can you see the difference in shading between the larger piece and the smaller one? A large scale definitely gives more opportunity to make the shading look super subtle. From a distance anyway...Via my peeps on Instagram I got some great ideas for flowers to add to the Bear embroidery: Honeysuckle (so appropriate for a bear but a real challenge to embroider!), Forget-me-nots, Bachelor Buttons and Ivy. Let me know if you have more great flower/plant suggestions. I'm looking forward to include some of them in this piece!

I also had a rare visitor in my Embroidery corner today:


Just checking whether I needed help with that left over floss in the teacup...  ;)

7 comments:

  1. Love your shaded embroidery - you are very clever designing these beautiful pieces of art yourself! Also well done to the cat for resisting the teacup of floss - that must take some kitty willpower...

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  2. Love the progress you've made on your Bear, the shading looks great. It's very nice that Tijger took time out of her busy schedule (aka sleeping) to visit you ;-)

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  3. Love the shading you're doing on Bear ~ and of course the Rabbit too. Looking forward to seeing progress ~ you've inspired me to try it also!
    Your cat is lovely ~ always did like that sort of stripe!

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  4. I <3 your work, they are both beautiful. Oh! and so is the kitty kat lol!!!

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  5. Hi Nicole! I haven't stopped by in some time and I see I've missed out on a lot! The Bear is going to be wonderful and I can't wait to see it when you are done. Off to go follow you on Instagram too.

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