My Stockholm-themed embroidery has been finished, more or less, since a burst of concerted effort ahead of the workshop at the end of March. Since then I’ve been working with the printed fabrics we made in that workshop, and the Stockholm piece has been languishing in a bag.

The embroidery club has its last session for the season in two weeks, and we vaguely discussed that we should bring the works we’ve finished this season, show them off a little bit.

Realizing that I haven’t actually finished anything, I set myself a new deadline. I will finish mounting the Stockholm piece, and I will make an effort to finish and mount the green prints plus organza series as well.

Step one: block and stretch the piece. It turns out that, even though I had a grid to work off, it’s somehow become slanted nevertheless. Fitting it into a rectangular frame like this would be difficult.

Thus, step zero point five: add a narrow wedge of bushes and walls and water to the edge to square it off. It doesn’t blend in 100%, especially the shadow on the water, but nobody’s going to be looking that closely at the edges.