Twenty five inch strips of silk, lace and paper. Twenty five inch rows of bullion knots, French knots, buttonhole stitch and chain stitch. A partially stitched row of twenty five inches of hooks and eyes. One twenty five inch edge of buttonhole stitch still to complete along with those hooks and eyes before this piece is finished.
They are waiting for me to finish this embroidery over on the 12 month artist book blog. It's an essential component of one of our pieces, yes one of our artist books. I'm on it....just the areas I mentioned left to do girls and we will be good to go. The French knots took an age....I can't count how many of those there are, they were the hold up. Having said that I am more than happy they are there. They allow for altered texture and altered weight across the whole piece. It just wouldn't be the same without them.
Looking back to when you first saw this here it doesn't look massively different today. You are just going to have to trust me when I say there have been hours and hours more embroidery added to this since then.