12th century embroidery – Saint Michael and the Dragon – sneak peek.24 – Endspurt!

And again new progress concerning my “12th century embroidery – Saint Michael and the Dragon” embroidery. 😀

*Wow* Filling the second blue border with this medieval embroidery technique takes nearly forever but I am definitely not giving up.

Despite all this never ending rows of small stitches and the awfully slow progress, I already made good progress on this last part of the embroidery. I am very confident of being able to finish this border and furthermore this embroidery project during the next days. 🙂

…and here two pictures of the recent progress of my medieval embroidery project for you. The blue border is the result of several very busy embroidery evenings – enjoy! 😀

Yes, I know, the rather dark blue color for the second border is a little bit daring but I had the very strong feeling that it is the best choice for this project. I was also considering a nice dark red color but the combination felt rather safe and boring to me. Therefore I decided to give the dark blue thread a chance and to try it…

…and damn, while I was working at the very first blue lines, I was really not sure if I was right concerning this color choice. *lol* But the more lines I made, the more I had the impression that the colors of the embroidery in the middle started to “pop” and to “shine”.

I am quite sure that if I had used the safe and boring color combination with “dark read” the red parts of the embroidery in the middle would have just appeared as a part of the border. I really think that in a “sea of red color” they would have went rather unnoticed.

Now this dark blue border, though it is a little bit daring, allows the red of the shield and cloak as well also the other used colors to be a highlight rather than being just a part of the red overall composition.

Above I added a small picture of the last progress before I started with the blue border. Please take a look at it and then at the new progress picture with the blue border. I think the comparison of the picture “without” and “with” the added blue border might give you an idea of what I mean. 🙂

I am very happy that I trusted my first feeling and decided to try it out – I think this blue border makes the whole embroidery a nice eye catcher, doesn’t it… Endspurt! *wooohooo* 😀

PS.: If you would like to read more about the period 12th century inspiration for the design, embroidery technique,… then please read my first posting about this project:
12th century embroidery – Saint Michael and the Dragon