The Road Goes Ever OnΒ embroidered byΒ seejor.
βAfter 100ish hours of work, Iβm so happy to say this beast is done!!
For the most part, I had an idea that I thought would be cool, drew it up, and transferred it to fabric (hereβs the hoop pre-stitching). Prior to this piece, Iβd only done florals β some from patterns I bought online (Namaste Embroidery) and some of my own design β so really I just wanted to see if I could embroider a dragon. I hadnβt been embroidering long but was feeling ballsy.
So thatβs the patternβ¦ as for color choices: the mountain, clouds, fog, and trees were entirely a product of Iβd bought a bunch of floss I thought was pretty and kind of went together and figured why not give it a try. I love how the mountain came out. The gold for the text was my favorite gold Iβd worked with in a sunflower piece (I have an entire floss organizer of just shades of yellow because of that piece, so the gold pieces pretty much just followed). Smaugβs colors and pose in general were inspired by an illustration of Smaug Tolkien did that Iβve always loved.
Process in general: I kind of made most of it up as I went along. I knew what effect I wanted in various sections and if I couldnβt figure out a way to make it look the way I wanted with stitches I knew, Iβd go googling. The pile of gold Smaug is on is all seed stitch (I donβt know if itβs technically seed stitch, but thatβs what Iβm calling it) and literally caused me to set this piece down for two years.
- the implement I used to transfer the design was a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. In a pinch, the gel ink can be removed (like when I edited out the two other mountains)
- I wore a reasonably high powered, rechargeable headlamp for a lot of this project in an attempt to have my stitches be as precise as possible. It ainβt pretty, but it worked pretty well!β
