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The Design Process
This is the design I’m using to make Julie (SilkLover) a butterfly. I’ve put it up before, but that was awhile ago… I transferred the design using 3 layers as shown in the hoop : A layer of muslim, a...
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The Large Wing
Here is the largest and most basic part of this piece – the split stitching fill-in of the large butterfly wing (it has a smaller wing to the rear). It’s only a little less than life sized in this...
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A Good Idea
At 3.30am this morning, I had an idea.I just wasn’t happy with my approach to split stitching the butterfly wing, dividing it into areas to give it texture, rather than using the longest stitches...
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Front Wing 98% Finished
I’ve run out of the Kreinik Blending Filament I was using between the different shades of DMC, so some not yet outlined.Don’t the wing pads look 100% better with the couched outline? Rachel Wright of...
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Wings and Cat Hair
For some reason, my cats are shedding at the moment. I’m finding that I take two stitches, remove a hair, take another two stitches, remove another hair … I’ve given up. I’ll go over the finished piece...
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StumpWing!
Where I last left you I’d outlined the big front wing in purple DMC and was going to add a second outline – of the knitted gold thread. That’s the front wing finished. ~~~~The small back wing was still...
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Finished but with a Question
I’ve skipped two posts on how I finished the Butterfly (coming up!) but I had a question I wanted to ask of y’all.Here he (she?) is : I think the purple body (done in raised stem stitch band) is a bit...
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Off With the Butterfly’s Head!
I put up a photo of the “Finished Butterfly” yesterday. This morning, I realised that the Head just wasn’t working. It’s part of an Electyra beetle’s wing (I have yet to post on attaching it) which I...
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Decorating the Butterfly’s Back
I can’t embroider right now, but that doesn’t stop me doing a bit of reading and thinking! I was hanging out in “Art of Needlework”, by Lewis F Day...
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The Embroidered Frame
The last time we saw The Gold and Silk Butterfly for SilkLover, it looked liked this : Then I replaced the Electyra Beetlewing head with more raised chain stitch in the same purple as the body. I felt...
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