Wednesday 8 June 2011

Norma's band - revisited



Norma's band has now been completed and has arrived back safely with Norma herself. It has always been nervewracking to have a piece of work travelling through the post. However, since we live so very far apart there was no choice in the matter. The relief was enormous when I heard it had arrived.

The threads above were the collection I made to find suitable colours to work with the sampler as it was when I received it. I had thought of autumnal (Fall) colours and designs of leaves. I soon discarded this idea since another design was of acorns.



I came up with this design. I had toyed with the idea of using the lovely wing shapes used in the birds stitched by Sarah.



The stitching I used was basically Blackwork. The wing shapes have miniature figure twos inverted and in mirror image since the overall shape reminded me of the number. I trawled through my Blackwork books to find inspiration for the other shapes. I eventually discarded the idea in the lighter blue shape, finding something more appropriate in scale.






So now Norma's sampler looks like this.

29 comments:

NormaH said...

Thank you Mandy for presenting such a lovely detailed description of my sampler and with delightful photos.

AND again a very big THANK YOU to all my stitching friends for this precious piece of stitching.

Much love, Norma

Mandy said...

I'm so pleased that you like your completed sampler.

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