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"She Tosses Her Soul After Every Passing Feathered Thing"
2008
silk (damaged shirt), silk and cotton thread (salvaged from sweaters and scrap floss)
from "And This Is How She Feels", a loose collection of poetry
And this is how she feels
Tossing her soul after every passing feathered thing
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Words were first embroidered in stem stitch, and the thicker parts of the font were then done in satin stitch over the stem stitch line.
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Magpie feathers, stem stitched shaft, shadow satin stitch for the barbs.
I really shouldn't have used satin for such long stitches. It's been a long time since I did much embroidery and I had forgotten the messiness it can become. They're pretty neat right now, but I think I may need to couch them to stabilize them.
I'm not as happy with the sleeve holes as I'd hoped. They're done in a deliberately messy satin-like stitch, and were supposed to look a little like wings had been ripped off, but don't really. I'm not sure how I could fix that.
ED. This piece will be appearing in Stitch Spectacular, at Dimensions Gallery.com/, in Savannah, Georgia; Jan 9-Feb 4, 2009.