Mabel's other stitching

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:09 pm

I've done it! I've unpicked something in my KF flower that has been nagging at me ever since I stitched it. I've been trying to ignore it but it simply wouldn't go away

. Pics show the annoying gappy version, the unpicked version, and the restitched version.
It would have been so much easier if I'd done this before couching the Elizabethan twist...

Nicola Main · Post by **Nicola Main** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:33 pm

Oh it looks divine Mabel the colours are beautiful! So glad you're happy with it now xxx

kingfisher2 · Post by **kingfisher2** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:12 pm

Glad you got it sorted Mabel. Such pretty colouring.

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:59 pm

Of course it bugged you and what a beautiful finish it is too.

Podolyanka · Post by **Podolyanka** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:56 am

The finish is really great and well worth the additional job done on the project. Now it looks perfectly beautiful.

Garnet · Post by **Garnet** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:38 am

Mabel, I don't think I would have noticed the gap without such an extreme close up picture, but I can understand it was bothering you and that's the important thing.

Well done for managing to unpick it stitch again.

It looks so rich and vibrant, so soft and strokeable.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:46 am

Garnet wrote:Mabel, I don't think I would have noticed the gap without such an extreme close up picture, but I can understand it was bothering you and that's the important thing.

It's what I tell people when teaching workshops or classes and they ask me whether they should unpick/re-do something: is it going to bother you every time you look at it, and so diminish your pleasure in it? Then unpick. If you can see it but it doesn't bother you, just leave it - nobody else is going to notice unless you tell them

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Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:49 pm

No, you really couldn't have left that, and it's a credit to your skill that it now looks as if you never unpicked it at all.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:31 pm

Using my new clip-on magnifiers I finihsed the last of the silk stitching on this - now it's just gold to finish (and possible a little bit to unpick where I don't like the curve - see arrow).

The magniefiers work great, although you wouldn't want to wear them all evening; but for the odd bit of really detailed work (I was doing split stitch and long & short in one strand) they are "magnify-cent"

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 12:43 am

WOW

That is awesome. I rather agree with you re that inner loop, not quite curved. I am sure the next time we see it, it will be perfect.

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:05 am

With your new "Wally" specs you will soon create perfection Perfectly!!

I really love these 'Jacobean' flowers!!

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:06 pm

Lovely!!

Carole

Garnet · Post by **Garnet** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:33 pm

Beautiful, simply beautiful and beautiful in it's "simplicity"

poppy · Post by **poppy** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:59 pm

It is a "Regal" flower to me, with all its rich colours. Another beautiful project, Mabel!

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:32 pm

Finished

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:11 pm

That is SO beautiful!!!

Carole

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:01 am

Totally Fabulous Mabel

Podolyanka · Post by **Podolyanka** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:16 am

This is a "wow" project from the beginning to the end.

kingfisher2 · Post by **kingfisher2** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:33 am

A beautiful design & finish Mabel. Love the colours

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:42 am

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