{"id":14030,"date":"2020-12-15T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:34:09","slug":"daily_2162_-_embroidered_starfishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/daily_2162_-_embroidered_starfishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2162 – embroidered starfishes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStarfishes, more or less as I had envisaged them. <\/p>\n

The second session of the embroidery workshop will be tomorrow and will deal with finishing and making something of your embroidery. I’ve been working on mine so that I can be done with the actual embroidering by then.<\/p>\n

Since this was supposed to be a learning opportunity, I tried to use not just familiar stitches (running stitch, whip stitch and chain stitch) but also some that I rarely use (stem stitch) and some that I have seen but never tried myself (couching and French knots).<\/p>\n

Couching was as easy as it looked. That’s what I used for the thin white starfish with small red stitches at the top left. French knots are the small wart-like things on the green starfish. Not difficult per se, but I need more practice to get them really even and tight.<\/p>\n

When I had finished the starfishes, I thought the design as a whole was still lacking something. I had four separate starfishes rather than one coherent design. I thought of adding seaweeds, but decided on small seed pearls. They’re like water bubbles sparkling in the sun.
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\nThe stem stitch framing around the edges of the starfishes came out really nice, crisp and distinct. This is my new favourite technique and I don’t think I will be using blanket stitch for appliques much from now on.<\/p>\n

One of my embroidery books encouraged readers to sign their embroideries. It’s a tradition in older works to put the maker’s initials and the year somewhere. I saw this advice when I had already filled the background with pearls and had no suitable place for signing. But the piece of cloth that will become the back of the bag\/pouch thing (which I intend to make of this) is all empty, so I decided to sign the back instead.<\/p>\n

It’s funny to imagine someone finding this many decades from now. Maybe I’ll give it away and the recipient tires of it and gives it to charity. Maybe I die and someone inherits it and then gifts it to someone else. And then at some point someone discovers it and starts digging into its history and writes a school project about it. Or a blog post, or whatever takes the place of blog posts a hundred years from now. “The materials are of Swedish manufacture and the design is clearly inspired by Swedish traditions, but the embroidery is signed with an Estonian name, very intriguing!”
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