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W.I.P. Pomegranate Challah Cover, originally uploaded by Carly & Art.
Almost done with this challah cover. The embroidery work is actually done, and I’m just down to the finishing work. I find that far less inspiring so I often stall there.
The design is based on tambour stitch patterns, but tambour stitch is done with a special hook and this is done with a plain old needle. It’s really just a chain stitch. I saw an article about tambour stitch in an Australian embroidery magazine I stumbled across at the book store and really fell in love with the style. It’s stitched with DMC Pearl Cotton, which had a nice effect.
I stitched most of the flourish around the pomegranates at my last Kohenet training intensive. I felt like a positive Madame DeFarge, capturing all of the stories and magic of that experience in my stitches.
I’ve decided that I’m so in love with tambour stitch that my next project will be a tambour-style stitch Mizrach. I’ve already drawn the design out on the fabric and it’s a sun rising over the water with rays in the sky and rays in the water. Of course, I finished the outline and realized I didn’t really have a palette of colors at my finger tips to begin stitching.
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Really quite gorgeous work and design.
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That’s really beautiful. I like the semblance of an infinity sign of pomegranates.