I finished my WIP from my very first post. It has taken me several weeks of on-again-off-again-mostly-off stitching, whenever it pops into my head. This morning I painted a thick strip across the bottom using a mixture of crimson acrylic paint mixed with a fabric paint medium, with a tiny amount of ultramarine and burnt umber mixed in to darken and grey down the red.
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Waiting for the paint to dry.
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The stitching is a random assortment of satin stitch, long and short stitch, and split stitch, with two french knots thrown in for the pupils of the eyes. Although I love the look of the finished piece, the fabric is wrinkled more than I would have hoped. The embroidery hoop completely failed to keep the fabric taut, which is unfortunate. A new hoop is on my list of things to get in the future. I am hoping that given some time laying flat, I'll be able to steam some of the wrinkles away.
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Close up of the star and the bear's two heads.
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This was a really fun exercise in embroidery for me. I didn't plan ahead at all, just sketched out the shape onto the osnaburg in pencil and started stitching with whatever I had on hand. The bear is actually done in five different shades of brown, because I wanted to use what I had on hand and I didn't have two skeins of any one color. I actually love the subtle shading that resulted from that.
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This is my favorite part of the whole piece.
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In a temporary IKEA frame.
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