textile dreams – fibery wake up

You can see that I did enjoy myself working this project by the fact that it’s been finished and off the frame for a couple of weeks already, I just never got around to posting about it! So, here’s the picture:

I’m pretty pleased with this, altthough you can see in places that I still have to work on covering the background fabric completely, it’s showing through in too many places. Now all that’s left to do with this one is to find the right frame for it. To show you how generous the embroidery kit was with the materials, here’s the threads that I’ve got left over:

To be honest, it doesn’t really look a lot less than what I started with. Now I only need another project to play with! Maybe I should take another close look at Jacobean Embroidery for inspiration?