Facescape ~ Trimmed

Facescape:  Moth to Flame

Pretty light-weight for its size.  I may tack it down to a background in lieu of attaching loops.

Or...what if I quilted it, complete with a narrow border?

Dry

Looks dry to me.  Now I'll remove it from the board and trim all the loose ends.  

Drying

Closest to true color.  Pic. taken in the sun.

Pinned, Wet & Set

Pinned.

Wet & Set.

Now I wait for it to dry.

Facescape Nearly Done

Embroidered the mouth and details in the luna moth.  

Just about ready to wet & set.  Maybe a tweak or two first.

Stuffing and Tucking

First pass ~ all gaps closed.  I'll be stuffing in more thread where needed in a bit.  But first, time to tuck threads.

Tuck, tuck, tuck.

All tucked.  Time for a break.

Experimenting with eyelids.

Close-up.

Really Close

Really close.  Lots of fiddly bits yet.

Closing in on it

Just a couple large areas to fill in, then lots of stuffing here and there to shape up the design and even out the threads.

Also embroider the mouth.

Another Couple Days

Time for bed.  Closing in on it.

Back At It

...after a few weeks off.

The Messy Stage

I'll need to tuck some threads soon so I can see what I'm doing.  ;- j

I guess it's got to get messier before it can get neater.

My poor little messy "lion."

More Weaving

Weaving away.  Trading off between weaving and assigning fighter poems.

More Raveling on Facescape #1

It's starting to come together.  All the major elements are in there now.  

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Loki likes to help.  ;- ]

Time for a stretch break.

Need to lay off for the night.

Back to Raveling

A good day's weaving.

Unraveling the Face

Sometimes you unweave more than you weave (technically I guess that's not possible, but I did do a lot of unweaving yesterday trying to get the face just so).  Not there yet, but better.

The black line was too thick so I reworked it in a finer thread.

Now I'm battling with the mouth.

 Time to move onto another portion of the tapestry before I get too frustrated.

Facescape

The lines might be a little too thick on the face.  I'll try swapping them out for something finer.

Facescapes ~ sketches

I've started a new mini-tapestry.  I call the theme facescapes.  Here are a couple of pastel sketches.

This is more or less the composition I'm going with.