Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Or Nue Glove Cuff, progress

Well, being waylaid by illness was not how I envisioned the last few weeks, however, I have made some progress on the glove cuff.  (And there was great cheering throughout the land!)

Here is a scan, of where the glove cuff sits today:


As you can see, the left wing is finished.  I made an interesting change in tools, this week.  I noticed that my normal thread needles were chewing up the metal thread.  We went on a fabric buy this weekend, and while at the sewing store, I picked up a pack of seed bead needles.  They are a much smaller gauge than other needles, as they are made specifically to thread seed beeds.  The drawback is that they are more fragile than normal needles (of which, I have broken 4 or 5 on this project, thus far.)  However, the seed bead needles do much less damage to the moody metal threads, and I can get more fine stitches, as well.  I am going to keep playing with them and see if they'll be worth it in the long run. 

3 comments:

  1. It really looks like there's shadow running around the inside rim of the wing. Mega-cool!

    To add black thread or not ....I don't think it needs it, now it's finished, unless it's going to be need to be seen at a distance. The tips of the feathers define the rest of the wing at a closer distance.

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  2. Elmsley Rose, I was wondering about whether it needed the outline or not. Once it was all done, it looked more feather like, which got me excited : )

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  3. The wing looks beautiful! Very dimensional!

    Can you talk about the couching you are doing down the bottom?

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