One seed pearl is stitched into the centre of the gold leaves on each of the outer roundels. Nothing too difficult here, I just had to select pearls that would fit into the available space and that had a big enough hole to fit the beading needle; these are teeny tiny little pearls.
© Thistle Threads/Carol-Anne Conway
A cluster of pearls is added to the centre of the rose. I thought that the gold outline made this rose but the pearl centre really makes it. I think this is so pretty.
© Thistle Threads/Carol-Anne Conway
Finally, tiny gold spangles are stitched into the empty spaces between the embroidered motifs. I wasn’t feeling too well when I did this. I had enough interest/energy to do a little mindless stitching but I could not be bothered to redraw the outline of the glove or to measure where they should go. I guestimated their position and a couple are outside the seam line so I will have to reposition those.
© Thistle Threads/Carol-Anne Conway
It is difficult to capture the sparkle of the spangles on camera but they really glitter and glint as the embroidery moves in the sunlight.
© Thistle Threads/Carol-Anne Conway
And this is the back!
© Thistle Threads/Carol-Anne Conway
Happy Stitching
7 comments:
Wow! Lovely! Even the back looks pretty good! I notice that the embroidery is a bit "looser", or not as precise as the Japanese embroidery you do. Do you find this annoying or difficult to achieve?
Wow!! your stitching is really a beauty : many congratulations to you on such a wonderful work :-)
So beautiful! I went to Urchfont open day the other week and thought of you when I was looking at the working being done by the Japanese Embroiderers there.
It looks lovely. Bring it with you in October would love to see it in person.
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Wow CA! That is some picture perfect embroidery. Now I'm kicking myself for not taking this class...there are many more techniques in that little glove than I thought.
Have you noticed how with each additional embellishment, you think it will look "over the top", but somehow it doesn't?
I'm really impressed with the back - very controlled.
It looks amazing finished. What a fabulous piece of work and even the back is wonderful!
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