Occasionally, we dig out projects in the studio that need to be finished, or at least that we need to re-visit, to find out where we are and what we need to do to get them finished.
This rose project detailed below is one such instance.
The project began ok, went pretty quickly, but then got derailed when we realized that the finishing approach that we originally intended to take wasn’t going to work.
Eventually, though, I’ve got to get these OFF this slate frame! So I need to get my brain around a finishing solution.
These three roses were supposed to be appliquéd onto an altar cover.
It wasn’t until after they were finished that I decided they needed a bit more “oomph” behind them – lift, and a bit of stiffness – to keep them intact and protected against movement that inevitably comes with the movement of the cloth that covers an altar.
This extra support could be easily supplied by some backing card or board, or, better yet, by a nice stiff felt.
But the little leaves pose a problem. They’re too small and fiddly, and I’m not keen to tackle the roses with the leaves on them.
This is something I have to think about. It is likely these will be re-done at some point. Maybe. Or maybe we’ll just pick out the leaves and approach the leaves a different way.
I don’t know! I really can’t seem to get my mushy brain around a solution right now.
The roses are simply an enlarged version of the little rose in the box top above.
That is the prototype rose for the Tudor-esque roses I worked on this Marian Medallion design.
You can find the whole process of this very small rose worked out here, step-by-step.
The larger roses take longer to stitch, needless to say, and they require more supplies. More supplies is No Small Thing these days, because goldwork threads are harder to come by and much more expensive than they were four or five years ago.
So I don’t really want to re-stitch the bigger roses.
I’ll have to make my brain actually do some work, I suppose, and devise a solution.
The big roses are about three inches across.
The small rose is about 1.25″ across (an inch and a quarter).
And that, my friends, is all my brain can muster at the moment about this topic.
It’s a problem that will stew in the back of my head a bit longer before I make any definite move forward on it.
I’ll let you know what comes of it!
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