This week’s progress has involved some unpicking, much as I am reluctant to unpick! I’d torn the edges of the pink backing fabric from my flower for the Great Scunthorpe Embroidery Challenge. I wanted the frayed edges to spill over the velvet and the outer edge, and I’d already done the stepped diagonal stitches, which I liked and didn’t want to cover up. It wasn’t very much to unpick, and was soon re-done.

One of the torn scraps was anchored down with straight stitches on the left hand side. Then a petal of the hand made felt was attached over the corner.

I then echoed the pink straight stitches attaching the velvet at the bottom, to attach the bottom edge of the pink fabric. I did more rows of irregular straight stiches in different colours and weights of thread, including a row of the knitted ribbon which matched the greeny gold sari silk strip perfectly. The flower is just laid on top to see how it will look…..

…… before doing more pink straight stiches and starting to fill in between the two rows of zigzag.

I put more knotted stitches near the eyelash yarn, in different textures and colours; they could hardly be called French or Bullion knots! There are more cushion stitches near the bottom right, coming up to meet the straight stitches.

The bottom is nearly finished, leaving across the top to do. It’s fun to work on, and the colours are feeling more comfortable than when I started. It just needs a final push before I get distracted with the next project at “In the stitch zone”.