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| The Four Corner States - Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona |
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| There are little patches of dark green desert bushes and light colored Mesquite |
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| Throughout the dry, arid desert, there are rivers and creeks |
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| Occasionally you may run across a little patch of forest |
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| Sometimes it is very open and sometimes compact |
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| The back |
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| The photos in this post haven't been shown before. They were made for specific celebrations and/or people. They are all from 2015 and 2016. Enjoy!! |
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| Sorry...I can't figure out how to turn this around! |
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| Continue on to the next post where I show my latest finished project! |
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| This is the back! Even I find it hard to distinguish between the back and the front! |
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| Close up of the back I found a post from Salzburg (from September!) that I accidentally left in the "draft" folder. So I've posted it now here: Salzburg Daytrip |
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| I don't know why but, no matter what I did, the colors looked "washed out". They actually harmonize extremely well with the black fabric and are vibrant and deep. Just image what a pretty shawl with a green loden coat looks like. |
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| This was one of the (if not THE) hardest thing I ever did in Hardanger. Although it is not a complicated piece, working on black fabric was nearly impossible. |
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| This little piece is definitely toward the top of my "favorite" list because it was such a challenge. |
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| A challenge that turned out very well even though this picture makes it looks sort of "fuzzy". It isn't though. |
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| I held it up to the window so you could see the twisted bars which go around the whole piece. In the other pictures, this feature looks sort of like just lines of dashes of thread. Why the name "India"? Well, I think of elephants. The beautiful embroidered head pieces you sometimes see elephants dressed with. And "India" because they have such beautiful embroidery, designs and colors. Oh, and although I didn't show any pictures of the back... you guess it....it looks pretty much the same as the front. |
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| The size |
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| the details -edging |
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| Details - twisted bars |
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| The whole thing |
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| the center |
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| Details - Bargello work |
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| The Back! So...what do you think??? |
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| First finish of 2016, started the day after Christmas |
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| I used up lots of left-over threads. My thread stash looks alot better now. |
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| Yeah, I'm still working on those pesty tabs |
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| I've done similar pieces but, because there are so many colors, I left the open work open and simple |
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| This is the back. It all looks pretty good like this |
