I’ve been working on the split stitch outline of the flower. It’ll all be covered with long-and-short stitching soon, but I console myself with the knowledge that it really makes the edge look nicer. I also added a little bit of stitching to the bird and stem.
embroidery for ducks 
Your embroidery is beautiful, Very inspiring…
Thank you. By the way, you can leave the “website” field blank when you are commenting if you don’t have one. Putting a random website like “Yahoo.com” just confuses people and makes your comment look like it might be spam 🙂
Wow the shading on that birds butt is spectacular! Really shows well against the black to. I always wondered about the website. Never saw it with the names. If you hadn’t said something I would never known to click on the name and it takes you to their site. I clicked on yours and it took me to your home page cool!
Yeah, I’ve discovered some really neat embroidery blogs from checking out my commenters websites 🙂
Good progress, Hannah – and yes, the outlining does help to add an improved “finish” to the piece.
thanks!
I’ve never done split stitch but will be soon as I’ve just put to frame Tanja Berlin’s Baby Burrowing Owl. I’ve split plenty of thread/stitches in my day, but never on purpose! Hope it comes easily. I hope one day I will have needlepainting skills as good as yours are in this piece! I love this particular subject!
Oh, that project sounds like a lot of fun! I am sure your owl will be adorable.