Flowering Love Completed

Not bad for just around 4 weeks worth of work! (Not 24hrs a day mind you!)

If you have been following me on Instagram feed then you will already seen that I have completed a rather lush piece of embroidery. Which I have since decided to call 'Flowering Love' a little smushy perhaps but I think it rather suits it. 

The pictures don't entirely do it justice as the colours are so rich and bright, which is why I have decided to have this piece professionally scanned so that I can turn the finished design into Giclée prints. A new area I am venturing in but one that I think, or at least hope, will turn out rather well. It will be good to at least get professional shot taken, there only so much you can do with an iPod Touch and a Nikon camera without the knowledge, and some additional assistance to make it work.

 Sometimes, sometimes it pays to get someone who knows what they are doing...to do it. 

I am in the process of mounting the piece up so once that is done I am going to get the printing sorted out. Which will in time include set of greetings cards and I think that it's high time I had some new mirrors made up. If you are interested in knowing more then do sign up to the newsletter (which I've not done one in a rather loooong time, but it's time to reinvent it and make use of it again). Also the original piece will, eventually, be available to purchase.

So, so many stitches went into building up the border. Lazy daisy, straight stitches, beads, eyelets and so on, and so forth. Think I went a little blind to all the colours in the end.

Rather unusually I managed to mount it up with little need of adjustments, and it's so flat it's nearly a miracle! Well, perhaps just a nice surprise. 

On the back I opted for a bit of retro Liberty Tana Lawn cotton print. Just because I can. I will be making up a hand sewn label on the back in due course.

Whilst I finish of the mounting of 'Flowering Love', I've also started work on my follow up piece, 'Hope'. I hadn't expected to have the chance to do that but the materials came sooner than I had anticipated, so that was again, another nice surprise!