Monday, May 31, 2010

Before And After Border


To recap, here are before and after photos of the Melissa Shirley mermaid.  You can see that adding a border frames this little design.  If I were doing the entire series of her little seaside ornaments, I wouldn't do a border, but since I am only stitching one and it is to cover the pocket on a purse, a border helps fill the empty space and gives me a place for the initials of the Birthday Girl.


In this photo the fish has been stitched except for the pink dots and red smile.  I paired my peach Silk Lame Braid with a similar color in Impressions so that the fish is sparkling some places but not others.  I plan to add pink beads to the pink dots but not until later on.

Note that I stitched the area around the monogram in tent stitches using just the pink Impressions from the wave bargello border.  I thought about using the sparkly pink Silk Lame Braid in the right areas but decided that might be too distracting behind the letters.

I've also started the bra in this photo, using a few surface lines of the red silk perle Elegance.  I'm also testing hair stitches, doing a chain stitch in Kreinik's holographic gold.  I don't much like how it looks, though.  The sky behind the mermaid is all regular Kreinik.  I see that using two shiny threads don't allow the hair to stand out against the sky.  I'll be pulling out the gold holographic hair and digging around in my stash for another thread for the hair.

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4 comments:

Odette said...

you are just too clever!! It looks awesome.
Odette
By the way thanks for the link to Jody - I got some needlepoint mags from her.

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Excellent, Odette! I'm glad Jody's magazines have a good home with you. I'm sure you will have fun with them.

NCPat said...

Mermaids are fantasies and they can have whatever hair you like...The gold adds the extra glitz for the bag, what if you used a different stitch? A short turkey work around her face and a longer one for the rest so it splays out in the water?

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Good ideas, Pat. I've already stitched her hair or I might have tried turkeywork.

More on her hair when I get to it.