Well, it's been a long time since my last post. Sorry about that but I have been busy stitching. With whitework "reverse stitching" is pretty easy - a welcome change from blackwork where it was pretty difficult. Anyway I am making progress now and trying to catch up because I am behind schedule with the Diploma course.
This is what the piece looks like now. I have removed the threads to make a wide border all round and have worked almost halfway up the background behind the horse in a variety of stitches. The stitches that I have used so far are: chained border, three sided, four sided, waffle, honeycomb and spaced satin. For the Diploma you need to use about five stitches, but I have taken a more the merrier approach so far.
This photograph gives a slightly closer view of the stitches. As you can see, I have just left the space within the horse outline completely untouched.
The border has been hemstitched; the drawn threads woven inand blanket stitched and the bars worked.
There is still a lot of work to do though.
Well, after a bit of a false start, my whitework is actually underway.
It is pretty hard to see the design on this photograph, but it is a horse trotting.
All that I have done so far is to start on the borders - a bit of drawn thread and hemstitching, and then started to fill in the background to the horse with some pulled thread stitches. So far I have used chained border and three sided stitch. There is a photograph below of the tiny bit that I have done.
The idea is to use a whole variety of stitches to make up the background. Should be fun!
