Miss Mouse has gotten her tail and a fine tail it is!
Next up is what to do with all the space around her?
The Darling Daughter who requested this Ellie,
wants lots of flowers so lets do the foundations of that,
as a chain stitch vine meandering all over the side
and part of the top.
And to do that I needed to sew the top and other side together.
This makes it a little harder to maneuver around and sew
through but makes for a more cohesive design.
And on the other foot, I have stitched a bird shape to make
A cardinal as requested
Most of the thread I will be using throughout will be DMC
so in this project expect that from here on
unless otherwise noted
I will be using several shades of red for the body of the cardinal
I'm going for a fade to dark
using a staggered satin stitch the whole way through
And here she is!
And since there has been some discussion on the CQI Divas
page about working from sketches
Here's the page of my sketchbook where this one came from
I have used her in the past many times
for anyone who notices that's the sketch for the gardens
round robin from 2014
Here'show I transfer some of my ideas
The paper is from the tail ends of clothing patterns
In some commercial clothing patterns you can get quite a
large swath of blank paper that is ideal for embroidery transfer
I like using this as transfer because I can see through it
it doesn't distort my stitches, when I go to pull it out from
under my stitching, if it hasn't already shredded from handling
And if you sew it into the piece you will never see it again
because it is such a light paper it will disappear or disintegrate
