This one was a repeat of Project 2, Stage 2 but this time experimenting with mixing primary colours in different ways.
I think it was most likely finsihed after I'd done all the bits with embroidery floss, but my edit button wasn't working and I felt the need to cover all the black fabric with running stitch and tiny cross stitches. I love the way the colours seem to merge together in the satin stith and the stripes of yellow with red between them but the part I like the best is the effect that has happened with the layers of different sized and different textures and different colours of cross stitching. I also had one of those revelatory moments that was probably dead obvious but has only just come to me, because I realised that with stitching I'm not just creating a visual texture but also a physical one, I love the way that this patch of cross stitches feels and the way it makes the fabric feel thicker and more robust. I'm pretty sure I should've known that, but it was like a discovery to me. I think I could've improved it if I'd had a better red thread, I think a natural cotton thread would've shown up much better than this one which is a metallic, also that tiny row of red backstitch near the top doesn't follow the circle properly, because the circle wasn't there when I did it, and it's niggling at me. One other issue was that I was wearing a thick, fluffy oatmeal coloured cardigan and that was bad in combination with the black fabric, it kept shedding little bits all over it!
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