Hand Embroidered Tropical Fish Wall Hanging

Hello there

Another week flies by and I've been busy with my day job but still managing to get creative with my own work.
I did a post previously about my hand embroidered fish I did 25 years ago ( click here to see it).
It really was about time that these fish had a home.

I used a beautiful hand dyed (not by me) piece of fabric for the background.....

....and using bondaweb ( still not got around to trying Misty Fuse), I appliqued the coral and fish using my sewing machine.

Before quilting.

                                                                     During quilting.

I'm doing a mixture of seaweedy feathers and some pebbling.

Appliqueing the fish was quite a challenge as the lion fish has some very raised areas of embroidery which the foot on my machine did not like getting up close to!

It is not quite there yet - I still have a little quilting to do and some hand beading detail to the little fish in the foreground.

I hope you will come back and see it when its finished.  This piece will be apart of my display touring the UK from January to April next year.  Click here for details.
Thanks for visiting.
See you all again soon.
Happy Stitchin'
Rhianon.