Off to Rathtrevor
This is the view on approaching Rathtrevor Beach, Parksville. The split log fences in the distance line walking trails.
The sky, mountains, and distant trees are painted. The fences are hand stitched and everything else is free motion machine embroidery, with occasional hand stitching wherever I “missed a bit.” For the field in the distance, I machine-sewed, then roughed it up with an emery board. This makes some threads stick up, which I then trim, and that helps give the whole field a more blurred, far-away look.
You never know what you’ll get by way of feedback on your work. Somewhere around ten hours of labor in, my husband commented he liked my “split-ends tree”!
You know what, I’ll take it. That tree does have a case of split ends.
P.S. Can you find my signature? I tried to blend it in with the scenery.