This is the Star, She'snot finished yet but I thought I would post her so far anyway.
She is a more personal card to me My Aunt Rainey gave me this card when I was 7 or 8.
She is the one who taught me to love the cards and gave me my first set.
She sAys she was taught by gypsies, which knowing her just might be true.
She lived in the same big "C" shaped apartment building,
3 doors down from Wrigley field, that we did when I was little.
We on the 3rd floor and she on the 2nd.
I could get to her house by running down the porch stairs and banging on the door.
when she was home she would let me in and we could talk,
She taught me to make cookies, and it was OK to speak your mind and to be different from everyone else.
She would say "If everyone was the same life would be boring."
The card depicts the north star, sailors and travelers guide in the night sky, in the middle of the 7 sisters constellation.
A woman on a field of grass and flowers, Pouring water from 2 jugs onto the earth and into a body of water,
She stands on the water and kneels on the land.
She is a calm guide to that balance within oneself, that nourishes the soul.
She sees both sides and nourishes them both without judgement.
All sewn in DMC 3 strands over satin fabric in satin stitch and rice stitch.
The stars are with 3 strand DMC burnished silver thread.
Any time you use a metallic thread you must be gentile and patient with it or it will turn into the most unmanageable nest of vipers you've ever seen!
I use short lengths, no longer than a foot and a very wide eye needle, this helps to keep knots in the thread and damage to your fabric to a minimum because Metallic threads will shred a fragile fabric.
Make sure you go to the back of your work and bury and wrap the ends otherwise they will wriggle loose.
