UPDATE: I added a picture to please Pat.
This weekend I worked on the background of the Joan Thomasson wizard and finished it-Hurrah!
But there are still things to do. I have started putting two rows of tent stitch all around the perimeter of the piece to help in finishing. I have also attached the moon and stars charms using the holes in the charms and also sewing down an arm of a star and the tip of the moon to help everything stay in one place. When you have a star shape with a hole at the tip of one arm, the charm will swing as the piece is moved. To keep movement to a minimum, I stitched across another arm with the same two plies of my purple Accentuate I used to attach the charms. It is visible if you squint, but because it is the same purple as the under robe, you don't notice the stitch much.
I also stitched on top of the wizard's glasses with my #4 gold 02 braid. Oddly, #8 braid was too thick but the #4 disappeared against his face until I stitched the glasses and bridge over his nose a second time. I didn't do the half moon of his reading glasses, just the rim, but that was the perfect touch.
I've added the cauldron's handle by couching a length of the same black Petite Very Velvet I used for the rim. Pretty soon I'm going to have to add smoke coming from the cauldron, but more about that next posting!
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What? No photo?
ReplyDeleteducking and running from the shoe!
LOL
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to use your imagination until I can russle up a photo. But there's really not much to see.
Wonderful! It is just wonderful! thanks for the photo, you know how I am!
ReplyDeleteYou are right, I should have done a photo. It is getting harder to get one done since it is now dark most mornings before I leave for work and when I get home, it is too crazy to do photos with the dogs needing to be walked and fed, my husband needing dinner, etc.
ReplyDeleteI will do better, honest!
Jane, with fingers crossed in CH