added hearts

This cloth is now covered, no unembellished areas, hearts have been added to the bottom section. The next step will be to back it with muslin and quilt here and there, I've not quite decided on where or how much, no firm plans just see where it takes me. It won't be quilted in the thick, padded conventional sense. Muslin is so fine it will hardly add any thickness to the piece but hopefully it will support the fragile lace and add ''something''.

I am also working on a large panel of embroidered text to use alongside this. Embroidering text takes a long time so please bear with me on that one but I do aim to have it finished and damp stretched before the week is out. I am always getting requests to show the damp stretching process. I am not sure if I have shown it before, way, way back. Thing is I usually end up doing it at night just before I go to bed, that way it's dry by morning but consequently there is no light for photographs.However I will try and damp stretch something completely random and irrelevant during the week just to show the process so stay tuned!

It seems I have been doing lots of whitework lately and I hadn't quite realised how much to be honest. So last night I created a kind of gallery of my favourite white work images and put it here. Then I got carried away and made this mosaic which I have also put in the side bar, up there on the right, to link to my new gallery. Some of these creations are still available here, well maybe one or two but that qualifies as some...doesn't it?

Now I have lots and lots of e-mails to answer and a text panel to work on but part of me, no all of me just wants to baste muslin to the back of this piece and see what happens. I have no self control, it's terrible!

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