The prompt for the month of May
for K3N's Coverlet of Comfort,
is"Fauna":
Any animals, birds, fish, etc.,
which remind you of a pet
or are a totem for you.
They will be each worked on
a 10" block...
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First I needed some tea/coffee
dyed fabrics--
I found two
old, worn damask napkins
of my Mom's and I set them up
in a dye bath of boiling water...
You can see the water darkening here
after about one hour...
I left the fabrics for about 6 hours in total,
then rinsed them out, and air dried
them overnight...
My choices for the two animals are:
an elephant and a fish.
I chose an Elephant as it reminds me of
Kota's (pictured on my sidebar)
wonderful personality.. so calm and gentle..
an all time favorite dog in our family.
And --
since we've always lived by the Ocean
I chose for my second fauna
A Fish...
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First:
I freehand drew both animals
on copy paper
and
second:
I then traced them onto the
dyed cloths
which I then
invisibly basted to the
backing fabric {white}.
Today I hand stitched their outlines:
Just a simple line drawing to be filled in with Kantha stitching
in the coming weeks as will be demonstrated
by K3N in future Wednesday YT videos...
I worked the fish in split backstitch
using regular embroidery floss--
[I had SO much trouble with snarling,
tangling, and splitting of the two
strands that I switched over
to my favored perle cotton N0 8
for
Mme Elephante-- below]
for her. I think the heavier looking
line works well for her...
:))))
I will be using the perle cotton for
all my stitching on these two blocks.
...I am not fond
of floss at all!!
I see so many stitchers able to use
floss so well--
But
I certainly cannot...
it gives me so much "agita"!!
👽👿👺
{I pull out one strand at a time,
beeswax it, straighten it etc etc
and still it won't cooperate
for me..!!}
S I G H...
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It has been teeming rain here since noon;
so far we've had
0.89" and it is still really coming
down.
I do love
💚💚💚
a rainy day...
💧💧💧
It was so nice to be stitching
and hearing the
rain...
Hugs, Julierose
La Blageuse
(still-stitching-euse)
