Final Straight

Now you can see the final stages are upon this project and I am almost a little sad it's drawing to a close. I've thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this piece, its tested me a little at times and has allowed me to be rather organic with the approach, adding bits as I go, the sketch layout was so basic so I really let myself go with the flow. 

The only thing that remains now is the actually finishing it, normally the boring yet satisfying stage. Normally I would have just straight mounted it onto slightly padded card, but this time I am going to mount it on patterned fabric. So not only will the design show through the eyelets but it will also act as a border. 

You can see from this sketch roughly what I had in mind. I will be stitching a very sweet picot border around it, making it a square then this will be as I said mounted onto fabric covered card. It will be stabbed stitched onto it. Then that will be it, it will be done and ready to be listed. Never to be repeated again. 

Its the picot edge just under the buttonhole loops that I will be doing as my edging its a 

mix of buttonhole and picots. 

Peacock Stumpwork...it continues

Like a strangely addictive epic the Peacock continues on at quite a pace. The nice thing is I finally got the beak the way I wanted it and the little feathery detail in his head, one of them but you can't quite see is actually thread wrapped wire. I will try to get a closer shot of this at the weekend, hopefully this weekend I will attach his wing properly. Left to do is a few more eyelets and satin dots, I am contemplating a few more wired paisley shapes and or couching of vintage threads. Then it will be working out if my finishing ideas will happen or not....

Work in Progress

I added a new dimension to the peacock picture I am in the process of adding trailing, you can see it clearer on the picture below, it's the wiggly lines. Basically it's like a form of couching but rather than spaced out stitches they lie next to each other very close, and very neat. I've done various things to this trailing, splitting the lengths of the core threads, and also cutting them back so the lines of trailing can get thinner and thinner, or branch out like well like branches on a tree. I am on the homeward straight with that I've gone from very pale turquoise to emerald green and I will end it on a dark royal purple.


I've still got plenty more to do with this picture, you will note the wing has come off, that's because I will stitch that down last, I also want to add more eyelets and satin dots too. So watch this space.

Progress

Up date as promised. Last night and today I have....

• stitched around each of the tail feathers in various ways, french knots, buttonhole loops
• applied the tail feathers to the back (secured)
• Stitched around the background shape
• Stitched the legs - trailing

 I'm going to leave this here for the day, because I am at a point where I am not sure how I want to progress. I have in my mind what I want to do for the head and I want to add more to the tail, but it's the background I feel that more can be done to it but I can't fathom what. Perhaps some tea, and watching the second series of Spaced will help....well it can't help.