Viking Longboat Progress

Hello  there

I've had a great week making good progress on the viking longboat piece.
Last time you saw it i was ready to start the hand embroidery.

At this point I had the piece on a slat frame to give me good tension when working the embroidery.  I thought things were going great until I noticed a major error in the drawing of the boat.

Luckily, I managed to fix it without too many problems.

Looks better now.

For the embroidery I used stranded cottons (floss) - 2 strands.

The " hair " for Mr Viking came from an ornamental Highland cow my Mum has. Perfect for the job.

I added a couple of borders and the ornate corners just to break it up a bit.  Ready to quilt now!
If you missed the first post about my viking piece, you can find it here
Now the quilting - the sea was really difficult and I thought I had messed it up at one stage but I just had to keep going....
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So this is where I am up to now.  Just the binding and the rigging to go on in that order.

I'll come back and show you the finished piece very soon.

Have a good weekend and thanks for visiting.

Rhianon.