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Blue green nuno felted background with hand stitched tree and leaves.
Embroidered Tree Completed

Embroidered Tree Completed

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Although a number of people didn’t think I needed any leaves on my embroidered tree, I decided to go ahead with the leaves.

Blue green nuno felted background with stitched tree and half of the leaves stitched.

I used a lighter value yellow green to contrast a bit with the blue green background. The thread is a #8 hand dyed perle cotton. I’m not sure that you can see the variations in the thread color as it is subtle but it’s not a solid color. I used a solid fishbone stitch to create the leaves. I decided not to mark the leaf shape on the background fabric, thus there are some that are a bit wonky, but that doesn’t bother me.

Blue green nuno felted background with close up of stitched tree and leaves.

Here’s a closer look at the stitching.

Blue green nuno felted background with hand stitched tree and leaves.

And here’s the piece after the stitching is finished. If you can see, the width of the fabric shrunk a bit with the stitching. The piece of fabric was barely wide enough to make a cover for my tablet to begin with and now I decided it wasn’t going to work to make a cover. So my first quarter challenge effort was a bit of a fail.

Blue green nuno felted background with stitched tree in black frame.

But never fear, the piece fit into a frame that I already had so it was a good use of stuff lying around the studio. I realize that I could have made a cover for the tablet and added the tree to the front but I wasn’t sure I would use the cover and the framed piece can always go to one of the galleries.