My latest tapestry is finished and will go to the framer next week. For those previously following this wee saga, and for those new here, here's the first five stages. The finished work is based around Revelation 21.9-21. When it's framed and photographed, I'll try to say more of what I've been attempting in this piece of exegesis in shape, colour and image.
The first photo was January 18 - so exactly two calendar months to complete. Mostly done in small increments, now and again a longer session to push it on. Photo 5 the work is about half done, all the metal thread work was still to be added at this stage, plus the final surrounding development.
OK. We all have ways we spend our time that other folk might smile at, baulk at or otherwise be glad not to have to bother. But somebody has to reorganise the several dozen skeins of thread once the work is done.
That means unfankling the fankles, and deciding to live with the odd unfankleable knot. 'Fankle' is a wonderful Scottish word for an unholy mess of thread, string, rope so tangled and entangled it takes inordinate patience to restore it to a useable skein.
Then putting the skeins back into the broadly similar colour groups so there's a chance they can be found again. No need to be over fussy - the rainbow spectrum does fine.
Oh, and the metallic threads, including the wonderfully precise DMC Light Effects Metallic Embroidery Thread colour E135. Thing is, metallic threads are fiercely independent, once loose from the packaging they spring all over the place. So they are confined in their own (metal) box!
Then the inventory - I need to replenish yellows, greens and blues - I have way too many reds, pinks and browns, gift bundles from well meaning friends - and not colours I use much. I know a charity shop that will happily take them.
By the way, if an embroidery shop was ever to want rid of one of those whirly kaleidoscope effect thread carousels........
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