Project 3 Colour - Stage 6 , Exercise 2 continued

 So just when you think you're nearly finished Stage 6 goes and slips something else into the last tiny paragraph - 'Look at your drawings and sketchbook work for a drawing with pastel colours to develop in terms of image making.'  I had been so disillusioned by French Knots already, that the thought of doing more kind of made me shudder, I went off and played with the machine embroidery exercise for a bit, but not in any seriousness.  Having done that I felt refreshed enough to tackle the final part, and I had this image that I made back in Project 1 as part of a texture study of a mossy paving stone and although it's not exactly pastel colours I decided that it was close enough and pretty perfect for translating into French Knots.

 4 days and about a thousand knots later! No, really, a thousand.

I do have a tendency to just leap into things without thinking through exactly how much work they're going to take, and I think that was the case here, I never intended to create something so work intensive at this point, it's about 3 and a half inches square(ish).  I definitely got over my hatred of French Knots and became quite obsessive about them, trying to stick them in wherever I saw the tiniest little gap with fabric showing through.  I'm really pleased with it though, I think the effort was really worth it, and I'm very happy with the end result.