One needlebook cover embroidered.

[liadethornegge]

I think I got a little wrapped up in the stitching, as I now realize it's one a.m. Still, I had to upload the photos and show off my finished embroidery. Compared to the last picture you might see that I did go back to fill in green in the background all over. The back now looks horrible with threads criss-crossing all over it, but it won't show anywhere once I stick it onto some board (cardboard, or other haven't decided yet). I'm not entirely happy with how I stitched the flowers. and none of them are stitched the same way!

Anyway, on the left-hand side in the image we have the knotwork in gold, and two seeblatter in gold. This will be the back of my needlebook. On the right side, the front after it's made up, we have the four stylized elizabethan flowers and in the centre my initials (LT) as I sign it on all my scrolls (hidden somewhere usually).

I'm quite happy with the rose and the heart's ease (I think that's what it was anyway - the left-most pair of flowers) but less happy with the two flowers on the right, in terms of shapes and colours. I mean just look at the red petals on the lower right one; looks like one got torn off and is flopping over the orange bit. Also the shade of green in the leaves of the Tudor rose and heart's ease was a bit light, but it was the one strand of green embroidery floss that was already separated out and ready to use in my bag of threads. I didn't want to pull out and create more loose threads of another colour.

All in all, I've learned loads doing this, and the next one will be even prettier. Now, I'm looking forward to making this up into a useable item and expect I'll make a mess of that too before I'm finished :)