Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Scotch Harebells Cross Stitch Panel


No sooner said than done - I've started the fourth (and final) flower panel by John Clayton. When I saw the previous three flower panels together it dawn on me - each of them individually looked nice, but somehow unimpressive, but next to each other their colors worked together and combined into a beautiful picture, that only lacked purple-blue colors for completeness. So - here come the harebells.


I'm stitching them again on Aida 14, only I decided to try Rosace floss.


Similar to the poppies, I'm stitching the  harebells by colors. But while I stitched the poppies, dividing the colors into three groups - reds, greens and background and then stitching as I please within a group, now I had the whim to stitch strictly color by color and take a picture after completing a color - something like a dissection of the picture by colors. What's the point - none whatsoever, it's neither easier nor practical, I just want to see how this will come out. I've stitched enough cross stitch projects now, so I'm curious to try different approaches just for fun :)

So - here are the first five colors, that make the flower heads:



I couldn't find pictures of harebells within my photo archives (and I searched :), so I've illustrated the real flowers with pictures from the Internet. The only bell flowers I found were these cousins of the scotch harebells that grow in the Osogovo mountain:



2 comments:

  1. I like the idea of stitching by colour. I always used to do it that way. Then I was told I should stitch from the middle :0(

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  2. Привет Вам из снежной России! Давно читаю Ваш журнал, восхищаюсь качеством исполнения работ и Вашим вкусом!
    Замечательная вышивка, вся серия! Очень изящно!

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