This is just a small embroidery that I did as a commission
for someone who wanted a little seahorse as a present for a friend. The brief
was to design a small, subtle seahorse in blues and greens, with just a little highlighting
in metallic threads. Left to my own devices I would have used silver leaf for
the body, overstitched with blue metallic thread, but in this case I tried to
restrain myself and just used pasinted fabric for the appliqueed body. The only metallics are the subtle gold swirl in the background
and the blue surround to the eye. To my eye these are perhaps a bit too subtle,
but of course the customer is always right!
A little seahorse as a present for a friend