Lotus Flower Coat – Reassured!
You may recall that I had a crisis of confidence over the lotus flower. Having decided I actively disliked my second thought, I persevered with version one, and I am Very Happy Indeed with how it has turned out.
So much so that I offer closer photographs below (click through to look at the stitching more closely and see what I’ve done). It is very simple in conception, just rows and rows of stitching in close shades of white/cream with a bit of pink and lilac, and a couple of the threads are variegated. Somehow it looks light, sunny, charming – and not at all like yet another version of the Jacket of Many Stitches!
And I’m making good use of Floral Feather Stitch, which is one of those delights I feel I don’t make adequate use of. I’m making up for it here – it’s one of my “hero” stitches, breaking up the density of stitching and allowing the tweed to show through. At some point I’ll do a little video of this one, as I’ve not seen many people mentioning it – I found it in Edith John’s Creative Stitches, I think.
But in the meantime – it’s Feather Stitch with an Up-&-Down Blanket Stitch beside each feather!
It’s lovely – the colours are just right and because they are so subtly similar it means you focus more on the details of the lovely stitching, which is exactly where I think the focus should be! And yes please to more about floral feather stitch.
That is a lovely success — lots of stitching but with plenty of lightness and the spaces making it all read as one thing. The colours are perfect, too. You should be proud of it. (A piece that would make an interesting magazine article or course project, don’t you think?)