Viking Longboat Wall Hanging

Hi there,
 I don't have a finish to show you this week, instead I have a new beginning.
This is a project I was inspired to make by a thimble!

My husband brought it back from Shetland for me ( I like to collect thimbles).  It's made of pewter and has a viking longboat on it.  I thought it would be a great subject for a wall hanging and something a bit different.

It's a bit difficult to see because its a pencil drawing, but this is the artwork I did for it.

I'm using bondaweb to do the raw edged applique.  The background fabric was begged from a quilter friend and is perfect for the effect I wanted.  It's by Makower UK and is called Ombre.  I think it's quite an old fabric because I couldn't find it online except in a post from 2008.

                                                            Slowly, adding the detail.

The sea was by far the most challenging part.  I just started playing around with some shapes to see how they looked.

Eventually I settled on this......

This is a raven on the sail.  I will add the detail with hand embroidery.  Did you know that the vikings trained ravens to search for land?  I thought that was really interesting.

Again, I will be doing hand embroidery to get the detail I want.

So that is it so far.  I will post about this from time to time so I hope you'll come back to see how its coming along.
Have a super Sunday.
til next time....
Rhianon.