Slow progress

Halo #2

Quilting

Close up.

The the second halo I used some cotton fabric that has gold foil print on it. I started to do a runing stitch starting at the centre and working spiralling out so as to be circling Mary's head, but this then created a mound. So I decided to stop and create small mounds all over to create a textured and interesting, also intricate, piece. I love how the stitching manipulates the fabric like this!

The background:

Well I have just completed the top background of my icon. I'm going so slow! And I need to post this to Lerwick on tues/wed so not sure if it will actually get done on time. Not quite sure how to continue either as I've tried to do Jesus's face and it just didn't work at all so I need to try again.

Halos and background, I have so much still to do!

There is two fabrics I have hand dyed making up the background and I've stitched them together and then tried to hide the fold with stitching...

The back looks so interesting :)

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