I love clover and I wanted to do a white clover after I finished my Red Clover piece. This clover is tiny. The frame opening is only about 3.5" tall!
I used similar techniques as the Red Clover, mixing Valdani variegated embroidery flosses in long and short and bullion knots with stretched gilt purls. The ground fabric is even weave linen. I wanted to keep the techniques fairly simple on this piece since it was so small. Mounting this piece was quite fiddly with it being such a small oval. Overall I'm pretty happy with it. The variegation did not fall quite as nicely on the leaves as on the Red Clover but I did not let myself plan which area of the variegation to use. I did a couple of the leaves multiple (multiple) times so I guess I kind of cheated that way a little bit. Also, I used a plain stem stitch on the stems on this piece instead of the stretched pearl purl on the Red Clover piece.
On to the next weed!
On to the next weed!
How did you do the two tone bullions? It's very striking.
ReplyDeletehi dima,
ReplyDeletei put 2-3 threads in my needle together and let them mix as they want. the thread i'm using is the variegated Valdani embroidery floss that i love so much so that also helps the color movement too. i hope that helps!
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