Well I’m getting back into the swing of things – finally looking at the summer and feeling fairly organized so I’m trying to catch back up to the TAST speeding wagon! 🙂 I really enjoyed these stitches.
First, the bullion – I’ve done it lots of times, mostly doing Brazilian embroidery and so was shocked when my first few stitches with silk thread looked HORRID! Only to realize (from the advice of a stitchy friend Rhonda – that it has to be something twisted – otherwise it doesn’t look right).
I still actually struggled a bit – a few of these look kind of messy – but I think they’re pretty and if you stand back they don’t look bad! 🙂
Then, I wanted to play with this knotted butterfly and sort of try to make them look like they’re flying – hmmm, not sure I got it, but I do like the different weights of the pearl and the very thin metallic thread. I guess what’s fun about a project like this butterfly pillow I’m working on is I can kind of experiment with stitches and splatter them around – good thing, I’m not really a planner.
I’ll have to show off my knotted Cretan next week – I’m eager because I really enjoy doing the cretan, so it will be interesting to see how this looks!
