I've finally finished the leaping deer sections of the background around the camouflage bra piece and have started working t-stitch to finish the background. In the above photo, you can see the t-stitch starting to fill in the background. I'm using one strand of Burmilana (color 3660 which is a pale ecru with a grayish cast) for the t-stitches. The leaping deer are done in cross stitch with Medici #8505, which is tan.
See anything wrong with this background?
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8 comments:
Only that to me, it is a little too busy with the camoflage of the bra yet to be stitched (beaded). Perhaps if the deer were lighter in color...
You may be right that the deer are too dark, Edy. I think that when the beads are added, they will dominate the piece so I deliberately choose a tan thread that pops out from the ecru t-stitch background. We'll see...
I can always rip out all the leaping deer and restitch them if I guessed wrong. Gulp!
It is busy, but I think instead of pulling them all out, why not remove an oval or round or square around the bra itself--or even reflect the bra shape--and leave the rest....fill back in with t-stitch to keep the eye on the bra and have the deer be a border.
the front feet of your deer are different sizes.
To me, the Medici is totally unneccessary. I think (I'm wasn't raised with hunters) that the deer with the antlers are the males, so you have a bunch of male deers instead of female deers? But I think what you really are talking about is the fact that the top row of deer and the first three on the left side of the 2nd row have longer front feet than the rest.
Nancy, it wouldn't surprise me if some of the deer have longer legs than others, given my counting ability, but that's not what I meant.
Males do have antlers and females not, but both are hunted here (there are just different limits of how many of each sex you can kill on your permit).
Yesterdays picture the deer seemed lighter in colour. Today's picture makes me think that it's too busy and competing. Already my eyes are blurring the camouflage and I can see the deer leaping across the bra (like cloud pictures). I think once the T-stitch is finished and the beads are on it's really going to start blending. Course it may look different in real life, but that's my impression from the photo.
Z, I'm stitching the background t-stitches like mad around the bra so I can get it beaded. Then we'll know if my ideas for the background worked or not. But that's NP--sometimes you give it your best shot and fail. Sometimes you knock a home run out of the baseball park!
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