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I have continued a little progress with my piece for the North East Embroiderers' Guild regional exhibition celebrating the Lindisfarne Gospels coming to Durham city this summer. I decided to work burden stitch which has a weaving quality about it and thought it worked quite well. I used some old silk threads I had and outlined with gold couching. I wanted the blue area to have a different look to the red area which is very open silk shading with curled couching.
The exhibition will be held in Durham Cathedral from 27th May to 23th June.
Hi Tracy,
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting and beautiful. The burden stitch looks great in the narrow section of the design and banding it with gold is a brilliant idea. I'd never seen open silk shading - I'd like to know more about that way of stitching. I wish I could come to your workshop in May but I canNOT find a flight that isn't too expensive. Berlin and Durham are not well connected! It looks like a wonderful workshop.
Liebe Gruße,
Kathy