I’ve been working on the slow stitch landscape from Jan Dowson’s workshop at Seata last month. I’ve more or less finished the french knots, lazy daisy and stab stitches on the sheep and lambs.

The dry stone wall in the foreground is part of the hem cut off a favourite old pair of black jeans, some using the right side of the fabric, some the wrong side, some horizontally and some vertically cut into random sizes. I’ve stitched with a mix of perlé threads in different weights using blanket stitches including some distorted ones, more french knots, pistal stitch, straight stitches to give the impression of depth and texture, with moss and lichen growing on the stones. Not finished yet, but wanted a change of thread colour…..

……so started with green running stitches, some longer stitches to look like twiggy bits that will probably become flowering cow parsley.

Then some random stab stitches……

……changing thread colour every time I’d finished a length. As I thought, it is good to work in my hand now that I’ve finished the french knots for the moment.