After having worked on many needlepoint projects recently and still have a lot of unfinished ones that I need to attend to, I just had to do something else before I went bonkers. I just can't work on the same techniques over and over before I feel an urgent need to move to something else. I wanted a project that would be different than what I normally do, something that would challenge me a bit and from which I would learn something new, so a couple days ago I started going through books and magazines and when I saw Tara I knew that this was the one I wanted to do.
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Tara started well, but then I got to where I had to appliqué little sections and I was tripping all over myself. My fingers just did not seem to be able to turn the fabric and hold it long enough to tack it to the background fabric. I used up just about all the patience I have, but somehow, not sure how, managed to do it :-)
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Tara is a Devaki Parasuramar of South Australia's design that I found in an old Inspirations magazine. When I saw the photo, I knew that I had some ribbons that were similar to the ones she used, but a different color and I also had the background fabric, trigger cloth which is a fabric often used in Brazilian embroidery. I have changed a few things but for the most part have stuck pretty much to the original design.
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Working on this design made me wonder how people manage to work on miniature projects. I don't think that I could manage it even in a very good day.
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While I was searching for some interesting small projects, I found another one which I will now start after I clear up all the mess I made with this one.
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Pierrette =^..^=