Another Glazig bag

 

This design last featured here in March of last year, when I used it as part of a Certificate Workshop on Glazig Embroidery. As well as very small samplers for students to work, I had purchased a few printed linens of this design for interested students, and began working one, just to show recommended stitches. 

I dug it out this week, because I have been preparing a presentation on Celtic Embroidery for next week's WES meeting, and thought it timely to finish this as yet another example of the genre. It was still in the hoop (yes, with a solid indentation).

I worked with the required Au Ver a Soie silk perlee threads.The workshop had depleted my thread supply in a few colours, notably blue, so my palette was a bit limited, but not onerously so.

It is slow work, requiring a magnifier. I stuck to the more commonly known sitches used in Glazig - buttonhole, satin, stem and fly stitch. 

There is a larger void than in the previous examples I worked, but I rather like that.

The linen on which it was printed was a little wider than A4, so once again, I turned it into a zippered bag. The last one worked very well.

The cutting out, finding lining, constructing bag and strap all went well. I bombed, however, putting in the strap, forgetting that, with a zip, it needed to go on the outside of the bag! 

Once I had unpicked the (very secure) attachment and resecured on the outside, all was well.

I am pleased with the batik I found for the lining. It seems to blend well with the embroidery.

So I have another example to accompany my talk next week and a bag that someone will like and use.

I have three more of these printed Glazig linen butterflies which I will probably keep for teaching purposes, and one I haven't worked of a flamboyant bird.  I'm certainly not working that before next Wednesday, but maybe some rainy day......

Meanwhile, I've enjoyed this one - and dedicate it to Genevieve, who first introduced me to Glazig. Merci beaucoup!