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Every Inchie Monday is Duck and although I was going to do a little yellow bath tub duck with a red bill I decided to challenge myself and went for a male mallard duck! Very colourful! I knew I had a very shiny green rayon embroidery thread which I thought I could use. It was quite a difficult thing putting it onto an inch square, however I tried a new technique today - well I made it up but I've never done this before! I found a piece of variegated blue material which looked like water and I have some plain linen strips left over from leg waxing!!! So I drew the duck onto this having put some bondaweb behind it and coloured the duck in with pro-markers then cut it out and ironed it on!! It looked pretty good just like that but I did want to embroider it so I just embroidered over the top of the colours I'd marked out - it was really enjoyable and I think worked. I also left the tail feathers free and wet them to bring them into a peak for the tail peak. Here is my duck:
We have an arduous time ahead of us now, a very dear old friend's very unexpected funeral on Thursday, a 6 hour drive away, so we are leaving tomorrow to stay with mutual friends to go down together on Thursday morning. Then would you believe it my husband is working at a hotel very nearby the next day for lunch so it has saved us two long 12 hour round trips. With the same drive back in Friday afternoon/evening traffic it will probably be midnight before we get home! I just hate being sat in the car for that long! So I shall enjoy a relaxing weekend. Hope your week will be nicer than mine. Thanks for visiting my blog and for any comments you leave.
