Tuesday 5 June 2012

Gold disc

No, I don't have a successful pop career I've been keeping from you, this is the 'unnamed goldwork project' I mentioned in my last post.

I wanted something straightforward to stitch next to a display on St Cuthbert's Banner at the recent Embroiderers' Guild Sunderland Branch afternoon tea, so I used an off-cut of the Banner velvet, and stitched a disc in simple couched imitation Japanese gold thread, as in the central cross on the Banner itself (plus a small amount of appliqué in the centre, for a bit of interest).

This is how it ended up:


I quite liked it, and decided to finish it off somehow.  For lack of anything much else to do with it, I stretched it round a cork table mat. From the back you can see that there was very little fabric to work with at the edges in a couple of places:


And from the front, frustratingly, you can tell that this meant that try as I might I couldn't get it properly centred:


I tried to rectify this by cutting the mat down with a craft knife and lacing it up again, but I'm not sure - I don't think the edge is smooth enough:


I put a back on it to finish it off:


And photographed a bit better:


But I still don't think it's good enough.

Still, I like the gold disc itself - I think that could be worth exploring further.

3 comments:

  1. It's really a striking piece. Did you put batting under the front and over the edges? That sometimes really smooths the rough cuts.

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  2. I love the intensity of the colours - so classic.
    Happy circle thoughts!

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  3. I love the gold disc - it has such weight and smoothness.

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