I've been playing around with embellishments for a while now and am very much enjoying adding fancy bits to my work. I'm not sure whether to call it 'darning' or 'weaving' - I think possibly darning, as it is working on top of a surface. Anyhow, one evening this week I spent some time adding some embroidery (or darning) bling to a tail, using a rather lovely tangerine Perle thread.
It's a bit thicker than the Danish threads I've been using. I don't know whether it was the change in feel, or that I was tired; but it didn't work. I plodded on regardless. Always a mistake when you have that nagging gut feeling that you should stop. Now.
By the time I'd finished, knew it was wrong. I'd also pulled some dark brown wool fibres up into the darn, muddying the glorious colour. Time to put it down and think about bed.
Looking at it the next day, I knew what I had to do. Tiny sharp scissors did the job.
The problem wasn't with the darning addition, but with the area I was working on. The tail need to be longer and more rooster like. I set about adding extra tailage. (Not a real word).
Much better. More balance. More working area.
And start again.
*Some time* (two hours) later. I can't think why I didn't do it it like this in the first place.
2 comments:
You are amazing!
He's glorious now! I have done the same thing when painting furniture--I know it's not right and I should stop but I keep going thinking this or this or this will make it right. It never does.
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