Look what I found in the attic...

More projects with a maritime theme.

Ok, so this was meant to be for someone...you know how it is.
There’s a seagull, two shells, a boat(two sails), the sun, a lifesaver, some seawater and one cloud.

I should mention each mini motif is only a prototype.  The colours are not final choices and I would like to work with finer thread.

To give you an idea of scale, the sea shells are 2mm!

As Pat Trott says in her book Three Dimensional Embroidery “ illumination is better than magnification”.  So get your hands on a daylight lamp ppl!

Saying that, it is actually relatively easy to stitch DBH fast in this way, as you can see two threads intersecting to guide you to the next place to take a stitch. It’s not knitting, it’s more forgiving than that.

Anyway, on finding said item I could immediately identify what needed to be done to sort it out.

So all the items are made Punto in Aria, aka, DBH around your finger or between your fingers.
At first it’s fiddly, then you quickly realise it’s a very good way to make miniature cute things that make you smile...

So here’s how you do it...

Photo 1 is how you start.
Photo 2 is how you end the first row.

Eventually you end up with this...

Now a funny thing happened as I rummaged in my bag of bits.  I found this...!

Now ‘this’ may not look like much to the uninitiated but for anyone that’s about to make a mermaid’s
tail, this is potentially a fish scale...

Must dash, have to water the plants and feed ‘he who cannot cook’...