Morning visitor

I haven't written for a couple of weeks since I have been working on some family matters which have swallowed up most of my free time. But as I was working on Saturday morning at my computer, look what walked by my window and just stood there looking at me, waiting for me to snap her picture..

Today, it rained most of the morning so I stayed in and finished my 'Horseman of the Bayeux'... here it is.

The Bayeux stitch is rather like a weaving, with three layers of embroidery straight stitches laid one on top of the other, in three different ways: a) a series of parallel long stitches b) then at 90 degrees to these, spaced every 1,5 cms or so, another long stitch, thereby holding down the first layer, and then c) a small catching stitch every centimetre along this second layer, thereby sealing the whole. Each of the areas to be embroidered is defined by stem stitch. These layers of stitches create texture and movement. The horse seemed almost to gallop off the linen ground.