I spent quite a few evenings this week hand embroidering the edges of the leaves on my broderie perse piece. It was quite hard work sometimes where the acrylic paint was quite thick and I ended up with a blunt needle.
Originally it had been my intention to only use one half of the background fabric but when I saw the photo up here on the blog I decided that I liked the effect using the whole piece of fabric. It needed a little something to balance the 2 sides and as I had one leaf motif left over I put that on the right hand side. To make it a little different I added some veins to the leaf in stem stitch, again using 2 strands of stranded embroidery thread.
Here is the whole piece with all the embroidery finished:
And here are some details:
I like the finished piece so much that although I’ve done all that was required for the activity on the C&G course I think I will bat it and quilt it too. This one is a piece that is more than just a sample. It wants to get finished.