How her hair flows

Now that I have finally gotten past my nasty bout of illness, no idea what it was but it certainly wasn't appreciated, I am getting back to a point where I can pick up where I left which was stitching the clock. The lady with the amazing hair is starting to look like I hoped it would, lovely. Its my aim today to get the rest of the main lines tacked down, remove the tissue and start tackling a section at a time.


And what I so far managed to achieve was:

This was the slow part, carefully removing the tissue paper from under the stitching. Used a needle and a pair of sharp tweezers to get rid of the fiddle bits. 

And this was how it looked afterwards, never knew it was ever covered in tissue paper

Slowly but surely I begin to fill in the sections of the hair, with a combination of back, running, split and chain stitch. I also use machine and stranded cottons in dark shades of brown, all to help give definition to the hair. I might consider putting in the odd highlight of gold thread, but I will wait until complete before I consider that one.

This is how it stands at present, rather pleased with the look of it so far and the aim is by the end of the weekend to get the the other sections around the top of the head done. Then next week it will be starting the top of the hair...well the tips, the rest of the design basically, hopefully getting to the face next weekend. Depending on how much I get done during the week. I do hope to be able to tack down the tissue for the other clock design too....busy times.

Now what projects are you working on?