There are embroideries that I have done for practice, which for some reason I am often unaware of, stir the soul. I embroidered the letter A in 2016 and, despite some glaring design errors, which today make me feel pompously very experienced (and this is unseemly, both because it is not good to rest on one’s meagre abilities, and because in another 10 years I will look at today’s embroidery with a shudder), I look at my little letter with gratitude, because I have learned many things from it. And since my affection for it must have gone beyond the words typed on the keyboard, over the years many people have asked me for the alphabet, which… is finally ready! I should be able to upload the e-book to the website by next week!
Here I show my constructive experiment, which finally finds a place for embroidery after only 10 years of incubation… Yes. I could have done better. However, I can say that I have combined the Graziano 6262 cremè embroidery with an equivalent hazelnut-coloured fabric. I assembled the embroidery with three pieces of hazelnut linen, using the joining stitch described in the previous post, and created the drawstring compartment with a strip of white linen, which I confess I really like. It’s a bit laborious, because I pinned it with two rounds of hemstitching, but I think the idea can be stolen for simpler projects, leaving the whole scene to her.
For the L, I decided to speed things up. In 5 years? No, no! I’ve already started taking measurements.