Ta Da! I finished and mail this off to my son, that is volunteering for our church in Russia.
The hardest part was finding out how to write in cursive in Russian.
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This is his favorite Hymn. The words translate to "Closer to Thee" |
The glycerin and 2 parts water soaked for a week. This made all the leaves flexible.
(Even to this day three or so weeks later.)
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I have learned from this that it needs some kind of backing and use this glue ( a flexible fabric glue) to back the leaf with felt. |
Here is the hymn in Russian. |
This is a wonderful idea. I must see if we have that flexible glue over here I'm sure I could use that often.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty.
Briony
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Yes, it is popular this lady in the US used to do a craft show on television and she put her name to many types of glue her name is Aleene's
ReplyDeleteWow Carollyn, tatting around a leaf is really amazing. I’m glad your experiment turned out so well, good for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks I will work on more of them and hopefully improve it!
ReplyDeleteVery, very beautiful tatting on that leaf!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks 😁
DeleteWow Carollyn I could not work out how you were going use tatting on the leaves.
ReplyDeleteThey look fantastic and how you did the words,
Love the veg not seen anything like them .... enjoy
Oh the stitching is called a back stitch and I poked the needle up from the back and yes I was careful cause I always stab wrong place, like normal so there is tiny holes in there. But smaller than rest of the needle cause I didn't want to go to far. The leaf being flexible helps.
DeleteThe vegetable were a first for me too except the heirloom tomato.
That's such a neat idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks I an having fun with it.🦋
ReplyDeleteWonderful tatting, and hymn.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rian🦋
ReplyDeleteAh, a migratory leaf with lacy wings!! What an artist you are - actually embroidering on the leaf as well.
ReplyDeleteWe get those egg plants (brinjal or 'baingan') here, along with another small variety which are round (which is what I buy). Then there are the extra large ones meant for a yummy dish - baingan ka bharta - roasted whole & minced; then cooked again with tomatoes, onions, etc.
Until I found these, we only have the large dark purple ones. 🍆 as seen in the emoji lol. You are lucky we cut in large slices bake and cover with spaghetti sauce and the top with parmesan it's called "eggplant parmesan"😃
DeleteGreat leaf and lovely tatting, what a great idea. I have never seen those eggplants only gigantic ones.
ReplyDeleteMe too and I am getting old ha ha ha !
DeleteOlá amiga!
ReplyDeleteQue trabalhinho interessante, na folha.
Ficou maravilhosooooooo!
Quanto ao vegetal, aqui no Brasil, e conhecido por berinjelas.
beijos fique com Deus.
Wow this is fascinating to me, we only have large deep purple ones🍆
Deletecudne!!!!!! jakie cienkie nici!
ReplyDeleteThankyou 😀🌻😀
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing work! Congratulations :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much 🌿
DeleteIncredible! What ever next?!
ReplyDeleteYou're so funny thankyou🌻🌿🌻
DeleteIt's really original this work Carollyn, I think your son are much happy to have it! That eggplants are very nice.
ReplyDeletehave a good day
sabrina