An Experiment in Wrapping
This is a satchel-style bag, roughly eight inches in width, that used up some scraps from previous projects and on which I experimented futher with the wrapping technique.
Wrapping is done by first embroidering the ground and then going back and wrapping the embroidered stitches. It gives a nice, heavy effect to the embroidery which I like very much.
I also deviated from my normal procedure by using a different tacking stitch on the central disc; usually I try to hide that under embroidery but this time, I made it part of the overall motif.
Embroidery is carried out in perl cotton and on fulled wool. The central motif is a circle of yellow wool with a quatrafoil of green wool applied on top of it.
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A close-up of the embroidered center, showing the wrapping. |