"The ayes have it"

One of the benefits of having a 16 year old in the house revising for her GCSEs is that every time that I insist that she sits quietly in the kitchen working for an hour, I also can sit quietly working for an hour! So, progress is being made on both fronts. Mind you, I'm glad that it isn't me doing the GCSEs. I hated it all those years ago (about 50) and certainly wouldn't enjoy it now.

In contrast, I am enjoying my blackwork. Feeling my way around the creases of the eyes ...............

I bet that you still don't know what it is!

This photograph is a few days old, but I didn't want you to have too much excitement all at once! Now the eyes are starting to appear it is a bit more obvious what the image is. 

I have to use a total of 5 different stitches. The face is definitely waffle stitch. The hair is small diamond stitch, swinging the "tail" to give the direction of the curls. I am not sure about that, but we'll see what it looks like.

This really is all about attention to detail.

I am back!

I am sorry about the gap in blogging, put it down to holidays, family, Christmas ................ All my sewing reached a hiatus, but I am back at it now.

I am enjoying blackwork. It felt at first as if I was groping about in the dark, but things seem to be falling into place a little more now. Anyway, this is a bit of a retrospective picture. Things have moved on, but I will save that for another day.

I know that it still looks like nothing but ................

I am using waffle stitch for the face, which is really pretty. So I thought that I would include a close up of the stitch.

The shading is fun. I annoy Tracy by referring to it as "Paint by numbers" in due deference to my total lack of artistic ability.