Embroidery project
Apr. 15th, 2012 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahbyrddYesterday I got the rose charted and made a start on the iris (at least thats what I assume it is). There are so many places that things are fuzzy in both the picture in the book and the photo I found online, that I can tell the charts are going to be a compromise between all the available versions. So I'll be making an interpretation rather than an "exact" copy of the original. I'm fine with that. If I can chart the flowers just once and swap colors and orientations when I make the cushion my life will be much easier. Which, when you think about it, is probably how that set of cushions started out and the variations are all human error/whim. I may play with a barley twist border, rather than running it on the diagonals, for the sweete bag.
Also, as I was charting it out it occurred to me that some of those many shades of cream to taupe might have been more pink before 400 years of use faded them. I may edge more towards the pinks in the seat cushions, though I like the neutrals for the sweete bag.
Also, as I was charting it out it occurred to me that some of those many shades of cream to taupe might have been more pink before 400 years of use faded them. I may edge more towards the pinks in the seat cushions, though I like the neutrals for the sweete bag.
