Filed under: Brandywine Chapter, Embroidery Guild of America, Lotus Blossom by Brenda Kocher, Or Nué Hearts by Brenda Kocher
My Or Nué Hearts and Lotus Blossom by Brenda Kocher are all framed and ready for Tuesday at our EGA Brandywine Chapter Quarterly meeting.
I had enough thread and canvas space to make three pieces. The extra framed Heart is going to Olga, the woman who works the gate at the retirement community where we meet. Very nice lady.
The frames are from Michael’s. There are a few canvas threads left unstitched around the edge of the stitching so that it fits snuggly. It’s stitched on a black canvas and black really helps set off the gold.
It sparkles more in person.
Filed under: Brandywine Chapter, Embroidery Guild of America, Lotus Blossom by Brenda Kocher
The challenge with this Or Nué Lotus Blossom is that lots of needles need to be working simultaneously. I don’t want to carry the gold Japanese Silk couching thread across the large center design. So, I have one one each side. There are 3 colors but the center lightest color repeats on the far left and right sides so that is 2 more needles. With the long (4.5 yards) strand of Radiance 13, that makes 8 needles to juggle. I brought my threads up in the hole of the next stitch, laid the Radiance, and then couched with the colored threads first.
Here it is done. I’ll look for a small frame at Michael’s.
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