Do you ever make something and think 'uhm, it's okay, but it's missing a certain something'? Some kind of spark that gives your sewing (or drawing, painting, crochet or whatever craft) life and energy. That added extra you can't define but know when you see it. Or rather, when you don't.
I've been making simple
Jude Hill style pieces of stitching, some of which I'm more pleased with than others.
The one on the left - the moon with a face - wasn't right, but I knew what to do to stop it annoying me. The yellow material I'd used was too harsh a yellow, and the facial expression wasn't what I'd been aiming for. So I appliqued a more mellow yellow over the original piece, a slightly fiddly thing to do but I was much happier with the result. I haven't re-sewn the face yet, but probably will.
This other piece - in the photo below - hasn't proved so straightforward to put right. It looked too plain, and frankly too boring.
I added more lines of running stitch, then used upcycled sari material to liven up the left hand side of it.
Which was better, but still lacking something or other. Anyway, I've put it aside for now, and maybe coming back to it with fresh eyes in a few days or weeks time will help me work out what I need to do next. In the meantime I've bought the boxes and bags of Christmas decorations downstairs, ready for when I decide it's time to put them up. As they only come out once a year I tend to forget what's in them.
There's a brown and red felt reindeer, made years ago, and a pair of simple embroidered birds sewn last Christmas, complete with a couple of my handmade boho style beads. Well, there's no subtlety to festive decs, are there? It's all about the shiny-ness and the sparkle.
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