virtuosew5d ago
It's been a trying few weeks, and I'm not firing on all cylinders, but I am beginning to close in on the next challenge of Aethelflaed : finalising the border embellishment design.

Roses, beer barrels and bee skeps. Crosses, maybe also the motifs from the coins she minted for her brother Edward.

Much to consider...

#HandEmbroidery #AethelflaedEmbroidery #MedievalMoversAndShakers #OpusAnglicanum #designing
Show threadRachel WrightMar 7

And here is number 2 of #SlowTVStitchery in which we consider how Akhenaten would love to know he was still interesting after all these years, but Mary Chubb would probably giggle.
https://makertube.net/w/uybyaeSCkZwK2eTkvBVt6T

#MakerTube #HandEmbroidery #SlowTVStitchery

SlowTVStitchery 02

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Kiny McCarrickMar 6

How it's going... Divine

#artinprogress #divine #firstfridayartwalk #MixedMedia #mastoart #CreativeToots #handembroidery

Rachel WrightMar 1

I am intending to rehouse all of my SlowTV Stitchery videos - not all at once! - and in that spirit have a new SlowTV Stitchery channel on MakerTube, here's number 1, filmed early in lockdown, in which I introduce the "Amarna Family Group" and centre the spiral

#SlowTVStitchery #MakerTube #HandEmbroidery
https://makertube.net/w/vK9C9GQb8F4htSnhMJkGQ7

SlowTVStitchery 01

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Rachel WrightFeb 24

By my standards, "Stella's Birds", once I got a design I was happy with, didn't change too much. The only majoy alteration is the raised section of Stabby's wing, which changed from a solid "shoulder" to the leading edges I used for the other birds.

Making sure that variegated thread appeared in all the birds helps to tie them together, as the the quietness of using the same stitch for all three leaves, and a simple stitch for the tendrils.

I'm actually very pleased. I'm not sure it quite gets to be the Grinling Gibbons style of carving I had in the back of my mind, but I'm absolutely sure that Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote "Gentian Hill", never expected anyone to bounce inspiration out of it in the world of needlework!

#StellasBirds #HandEmbroidery #MountmellickEmbroider

Show threadRachel WrightFeb 23

I have added a third stitch: Holly Braid Stitch. This was recorded and diagrammed by Jacqui Carey in her book "Elizabethan Stitches", and to begin with I found it nearly as mind bending as the Dreaded Plaited Braid Stitch. I hope the video helps anyone else who has read the book and is curious..

https://makertube.net/w/gszHfv4bGxYRyQep7EXDrE
#HandEmbroidery #Stitches

HollyBraidStitch

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Show threadRachel WrightFeb 21

Yes, I do have a bit of a Thing for Feather Stitch!

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Show threadRachel WrightFeb 21

I've also started a channel called Interesting Stitches. I'll gradually add videos of stitches I think deserve to be better known.
So far there are only two.
The first is Floral Feather Stitch:
https://makertube.net/w/6XrAUZ13Bn7tFkgY4inK5T

#Stitches #HandEmbroidery #MakerTube

FloralFeatherStitch

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Rachel WrightFeb 17

Shouty Bird, singing her heart out, luxuriant tail hanging behind and wings a-flap with enthursiasm, nevertheless gave me a few difficult moments. But with the guidance I developed as I found what worked, the raised leading edges of the wings, the same variegated thread on the bodies, dark legs and beaks, all gradually helped it come together.

#StellasBirds #HandEmbroidery

virtuosewFeb 15
I don't usually show my working, as it were, but from the front, you can barely see the progress in tying down the #TrellisCouching. So this gives me a marker.

#HandEmbroidery #AethelflaedEmbroidery #MedievalMoversAndShakers #OpusAnglicanum