One of the things I thought I'd play with while stitching six different household pet guardian angels was the halos and the wings. I am going to attempt a different halo and a different wing treatment on each angel.
This may not be easy as I may run out of ideas and I do love how the Victorian Parakeet's wings turned out, but I am going to try. The silver (Kreinik #4005, my favorite silver!) halo was created by tent stitching an oval floating above the Baroque Fish's head, then stem stitching right on top of the tent stitches to give the halo a bit of Ooomph and dimension. Although you can't see the pretty silver shine, I think this is a very nice halo. (Although Pat's halo for the Georgian Rabbit angel on her Needle Art Nut blog is better. See the link and judge for yourself.)
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2009/01/tickled-purple.html
By the way, Three Women and a Peach is mostly assembled. The piece needs to spend a bit of time under heavy weights to both glue the additional magnets I put inside and flatten the quilt batting a bit. I will leave it alone a day for this to happen but hope to have everything together later this week. (I hope. Best laid plans and all that!)
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
4 comments:
This looks great! I am already trying to come up with another idea for the next one's halo! Thanks for the nice words on the first one. Now, I might be brave and change the wings too! I was hesitant to do so before, now I will ponder that one!
I think all the pet guardian angel stitchers should use the same outline for their angel, but it really is up to you how you stitch the rest. Most folks are sticking to the basics because the stitches are so interesting and look so good, but you don't have to do that.
Basically, suit yourself, Pat. As long as the angels still look related, I don't care and I don't think Kandace does, either.
all your angels look great. it is fun to see what others do with a piece you design.
thanks for the great work
kandy m
No, Kandy, thanks for YOUR designs!
Jane, waving like mad when The Designer shows up
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