Lady Hera is done

Here she is, in all her glory

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, back-stitching, beads, even my initials.

I’m glad I did this, I won’t be doing any more Mirabilias. First of all, I’m not that into pretty ladies. I prefer samplers, or other quirky designs. It was a lot of work, a whole lot. Although there is open area, this was basically a full coverage, not my jam.

Here I was about 2/3 finished. At this point I wasn’t loving it anymore, but I was determined to finish it. So I went on.

by the tail, I was so over it. One of the big problems with full coverage, is that if you make a mistake, it can affect the whole pattern. Luckily for me, it was easy to fudge things with the peacock eyes, even I can’t find the mistakes. But I enjoyed it less, because I was trying to figure out where I needed to compensate.

Then came the beading. I have a lot of beads left over from my beading days. So I simply checked the Mill Hill bead numbers and found something similar. Do you see the light green, turns out that was supposed to be a different color green, which I actually had and used elsewhere.

This more olive green, but it looks just fine as the streaming beads.

Without the backstitching, the features of the girl don’t show up. I get that . The beads add interest. Much more so on the peacock tail than on Lady Hera. I hated the beading, it really hurt my hands, picking up each tiny bead, sewing them down. It’s different from sewing the crosses and my fingers really hurt. So I’m going a few days without stitching, I can’t abuse my hands, I’ll show you what I’ve done instead.

You can see how the beads really make the tail pop! There is also some fancy shiny thread in there. It looks pretty, but I like silk, I like cotton.

At some point I can see stitching another peacock, cuz I love them, but probably not with beads.

One issue with this kind of project is that the fabric between the stitched areas gets wavy and lumpy. This is why many people will stitch on a frame. It keeps the fabric taut. I like to stitch in hand, which is probably why I like more open stitchery. Although as I look through my projects, I see have some with larger areas of full coverage. That won’t stop me.

Now, I need to find a frame. I don’t want to pay a framer to do this. It will probably end up on a wall that people won’t really see, so I’m find doing it myself. So off to Michaels I go.

I made Einav a dress, yes this is the Geranium dress. Very popular a few years ago. She wore the first on I made her last week, it has become a tunic, although it still fits her chest. This one is size 4, so I made a large hem, hopefully it’s not too long, but it can be lengthened. I’ll give it to her next week in person and then share pictures.

Now, I am off to buy more fabric, to make myself a dress and a shirt for Joel. Sewing clothes isn’t as hard on my hands. JoAnns’ didn’t have anything I like, no surprise there. Although, they now are selling Liberty of London fabric!!! So at some point, they will get my business.

Leah

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