In the dim and distant past, when I started to write this blog, I tried hard to post something new every week – and mostly I succeeded. But more recently I’ve been finding this difficult, because I just don’t have a new design ready to go up each week. This is entirely because I’ve been doing more and more complicated designs, which take a lot longer than a week to draw, digitise and stitch out. And this week we have the result of what must be about a month’s worth of complicated and detailed effort
I’ve always loved the “bellpull” format – that is, long, thin designs. They’re a challenge to design but they can look so effective when they’re mounted and displayed. So for the past few weeks I’ve been concentrating on a detailed and elaborate bellpull design. It’s made up of 6 5×7 inch (130 x 180 mm) panels, which are designed to align together when they’re stitched in sequence on a long, narrow strip of fabric
Now – this image is so large and long that you may have problems viewing it, but I thought I should try to show it close up so you can see the details. The whole thing turned out more or less as I wanted it to, so I shall now breath a deep sigh of relief and go back to designing something a little less challenging!
Mia, how fantastic, you have really done an exceptional job with these designs. Clearly you can pick out the six pieces, which have blended together fabulously. You are very talented, are they for someone special? They would be so excited to see the finished bell pull. A huge task this would have been, but you must be delighted with the result. Congrats well done.
Hi Mia, I have a touch screen on my laptop and although the designs look magnificent on the regular screen, when I use my touch screen the design really comes alive. The different stitches that you digitized for each piece of this design is
extraordinary. Your artistic ability is always amazing. Thanks for sharing another on of your spectacular pieces of embroidery.
This project is absolutely beautiful. You have outdone yourself. Thanks for sharing.
WOW! This is so beautiful !! I can’t imagine how many hours went into this. Truly a work of art. Bravo!
What a huge project. I can never keep up with such a lot of work like that. If it is not a few items and done, I just don’t do them. You should make a little hangtag for it to let people know just how much went into making this beautiful bell pull: total of stitches, number of color changes, number of hoop changes, hours of stitching and hours of finish work. Hair loss when you get in a big glitch.
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Now that makes me tired just thinking about it all.
I love this, beautiful
Wow! It is amazing as always! You should have mentioned to your readers that they can purchase the designs through the Secretsof.com website. They have it for sale at a bargain price!
This is absolutele beautiful i love it the colors
to You hard work pays of
C’est fantastique
Un projet tellement important !
Félicitations
Chantal
absolutely gorgeous!
Amazingly beautiful & complex. I love your work!
Just WOW!! Mia, I have no words! Thank you for sharing it with us.