Chorus of Angels Progress

You may recall that my mother and I have been doing some embellishments for a Christmas Tablecloth.

We have twelve angels (or is it eighteen?) to do. I don’t think they’ll be done in time for this Christmas!

However, I do feel quite pleased that we’ve got the stitch choices set, at least for the green angels (half of the angels have green capes, the other half have red capes).

The wings are edged with crested chain stitch, and the cape has a shoulder line of closed feather stitch, and another line of petal stitch. The dress is defined with a pattern of up and down blanket stitches, since it is actually the background fabric.

On that subject, the face wil also be part of the background fabric, defined by the hair. We’ve not come up with a good solution for that, yet. Or for how much face there will, in fact, be. With such a small area, if we misplace an eye or a nose, we’re careering straight into uncanny valley. And we don’t want to be there!

So, anyway, three complete. Onwards!