It was fun to work on a crewel piece for a change. I haven't really done any
wool embroidery for a number of years (like 20!!), so it was fun to dip my
toes back in it again. When I was finished with this, I remembered wool
drapes that used to hang in my childhood home. They were completely
embroidered just like this small piece! I realized that I could now do my
own set if I ever chose to have anything like that hanging in our own home.
I really had fun working the different stitches, too. There were areas of long
and short, satin, French knots, twisted buttonhole, trellis couching, stem, chain,
closed fly and fishbone (my new favorite!) stitches. I liked the challenge of
remembering how to execute some of them, and some were completely new to me.
I was so proud to be finished...and I really thought I was. Then, while
editing my photographs, I saw this. sigh I missed two stems. I've been
so excited about the way the leaves turned out that I never noticed that
I'd hadn't stitched the stems. So, rather than share a finished piece, I'm
sharing a "mostly finished piece". When it's completely finished, I've
decided that I shall have a small frame made for it. I never did tell you
the size of this one, did I? It's a petite 3" x 3". All that stitching in such
a small area. Perhaps I'll do this again, but on a larger scale - another day.
