Advanced Goldwork - Latest Progress

Only just got round to uploading some photos.  I returned to Durham for a couple of days in October and early December to continue with my Eagle.  This is where I am today:

Still a lot to do, but I have a couple of days this week, so I hope to get a long way.  I still need to buy another teddy bear eye. I am back in Durham at the end of February, so my aim is to have finished so that I can mount during the 2 days I am there!!  Best laid plans ......

Advanced Goldwork

The 4th Technique for the RSN Diploma is Goldwork.  I have chosen to represent a Golden Eagle, whom I have named Freya after the Golden Eagle chick which was satellite tagged on Springwatch.

Image transferred to fabric

Carpet felt and then wool felt

Adding the string for the basket weave

Basket weave using Twist and Smooth Passing in copper and gold

Faux leather in gold and rose gold edged with Pearl Purl. Gold Plate for her talons and the start of chipwork at he base of her legs. And that's as far as I got when I came to end of my Intensive. Will carry on on my own and return for a couple of days with Tracy in October.

Whitework Finished

Went to Durham for the 2 week intensive session in July and started by mounting my Whitework ready for Tracy to post down to the RSN for assessment.  Here it is:

Unfortunately, when you choose to include the hemming part of the brief in the design, you don't use a mounting technique which stretches the fabric.

Finished!  Well nearly.  Just need to do the hemmed border and mount on card with a blue fabric background.  I'll be doing this in Durham next week with Tracy.  Then it is off to the RSN for assessment.

Advanced Whitework

I decided to start my Whitework again, as I wasn't happy with what I had done so far. So that is what I did when I went back to Tracy in Durham in November and January. The design above is what I chose to do. So this will be in pulled thread work and then I have to do a border and corners showing drawn thread work.

I did most of the work at home, but when I went back to Durham for my two week intensive session I started on the drawn thread work. This is the piece before adding the drawn thread work.

And after three of the drawn thread borders were completed:

Closeups of the borders:

 

Closeup of one of the corners.

I have three more corners to do and I am re-doing one of the borders as I'm not entirely happy with it. I then have to hem the edges and mount it!

Teddy Finished

After a long break due to health issues, I finally finished Teddy. This image was before I mounted him, so the puckers are no longer there. I went back to Tracy in Durham last November and mounted Teddy, and off he went to the RSN for assessment.

Not much to show for the Whitework yet.  I'm attempting to reproduce the William Morris sunflowers shown above.  I do like the whitework technique but having problems knowing how to finish the ends!