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| Progress on Rebekka's Garland |
You're familiar with "My Way" by Frank Sinatra of course. My mistakes are only glaring under bright lights and magnification, but they're there. I'm pretty sure that by the time I get to the third or fourth character in this series I will have perfected the art of cutting extremely small leaves and tacking them down. Or, I might possibly have been "placed" somewhere safe...
The past few nights have been spent on the oak leaves. First, I watched Amy do it on her DVD - sort of like watching Annika Sorenstam play golf. Then I practiced of course - didn't like what I saw and plunged right in.
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| My practice oak leaf - pretty sad- thought about glue briefly |
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| Looks a little better on the real canvas |
Then I outfitted the leaf with some veins which helped
So, I moved right on over to the other side and tacked down another oak leaf and started tacking down the pressed rayon leaves. Guess what? There is a front and a back to the rayon leaves. YOU KNOW which way I tacked them down first.
Finally, to reward myself I decided to make the ribbon mums. Guess who didn't read the stitch guide carefully? Frank! Instead of leaving little openings for the beads, I covered the whole area with the ribbon. And I used the wrong needle. Although I must say a chenille needle worked quite well. Needs a little ribbon clean up work on that lower left side.
If you take it all in from a distance it looks quite acceptable. And those acorns are perfect!
As Frank says, I did it MY WAY!
Happy stitching,
Linda
I didn't even attempt those leaves. All of mine are basket weaved! After all, I figured that the canvas needs a little basket weave. I am now on the Brave and it is going faster - at least the garland. The fish took me 5 hours! The rest of your garland looks fabulous. I cheated on all that stuff. LOL
ReplyDeleteWell probably no one will ever know that you cheated! I have the Brave staring at me, but I am determined to finish Rebekkah first! Hopefully his garland will be faster.
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