When I embroidered Autumn and Winter they where small and the colours muted…When I started thinking about what I would do for spring I knew that it had to be big, bright and bouncy…
Top line Spring…For the words I used pekinese and back stitch, the stitches that I have been working on, with detached chain stitch and a colonial knot to dot the i…I have added insects for a finishing touch, the grub on the tail of the g is about 40 tiny sequins with a colonial knot and tiny straight stitches to make the head.
The second line is Laced Triple Pekinese which I recognized as a zipper when I curved the top row, the finishing touch was a zipper pull which I linked to the spring theme by with a watering can….I liked that it has the double meaning of being a zipper and zipping into spring.
The Third line is similar to the variation that I did for TAST Last year, and the bottom row is the same but using groups of 3 rather than 4 stitches on either side of the central row of back stitch.
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September 12th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Gah, Annie!!!! I love that zipper… it is soooooo very cool!
September 13th, 2008 at 7:32 am
This is lots of fun – I too love the way you played with “zipping” along!
Spring has definitely sprung!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Ahhhhh!!!! I LOOOOOOVE the zipper!!! How genius!
Wendy
September 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
The zipper interpretation is fabulous! I love the whole project, but the zipper especially. And I’m intrigued by the cut you put in the sampler. I can’t wait to see how you’ll be “healing” this section of the work.