At last I have completed the motives on this canvas. Everyone is different.I used stranded cottons on a beige mono 14 size canvas. It took me about 10 months to complete them as I had to stop for a while because of a severely painful neck caused by the effects of polio mentioned in my earlier blogs.
Each motive is about 6cms square with a gap of about 1cm between each motive. Every one of them was designed by me. A lot of the designs I have used to make pin cushions in the past. I would say that I have only completed about 1/3 of the finished article as every space and outer edge has to be filled, probably using braid that will be couched on.
I will be showing the article at the next meeting of the Cape Embroiders Guild to hopefully get a lot of advice from the more experienced members. The original idea of this project was to be made into a cushion but since making it I have decided it will be framed as it really is a sampler of various types of canvas stitchers and not to be sat on!
When it has been completed I will show it again in all it's glory!
