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Rachel Wright Jan 20

Since my blog is catching up with my stitching, I thought I would revisit Stella's Birds..

The inspirations are Elizabeth Goudge's book, "Gentian Hill", medieval imagery and Mountmellick embroidery.

That's quite a lot to juggle, isn't it!

#HandEmbroidery #StellasBirds #MountmellickEmbroidery

virtuosew Dec 2

Lest you fear that either I've forgotten pixelfed or that I've not been stitching - behold, a small fragment of some very textural #embroidery. Feather stitch layered on top of padded blanket stitch..

#HandEmbroidery #StellasBirds #MountmellickEmbroidery

Rachel Wright Oct 14

For exciting reasons I'm not prepared to talk about yet, I'm revisiting Stella's Birds and really hope to get the design settled soon..

Just to catch everyone up, this is going to be a design inspired by a scene in Elizabeth Goudge's novel "Gentian Hill", in which a woodcarving in a church is described. I'm intending the stitching to be vaguely Mountmellick inspired, with lots of textural stitches, and the birds are going to be mad and medieval...

#HandEmbroidery #StellasBirds #GentianHill #MountmellickEmbroidery

MaiF Sep 13, 2023

My Mountmellick embroidery flower after boiling & ironing. I visited the Mountmellick Embroidery Museum recently and saw some beautiful examples of old Mountmellick work
#Mountmellick #MountmellickEmbroidery #Whitework #Embroidery