Mildred the Magnificent is a Winged Serpent, known down the ages for being magical, intelligent, dangerous creatures, often found guarding treasure. Mildred, however, prefers to spend her time learning to crochet and making her own bread.
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| Mildred the Magnificent |
The reworked pricking does have some changes from the original photograph.
The coloured, numbered trail diagram shows how I made this design. It will not be the only way. I work on my original line drawing, placing the pins as I work. These are not necessarily the only way the pattern works, so do feel free to alter how you make the points, and move any bars or pins to where you feel may work better.
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| Suggested order of working |
Five pairs only used for the whole design, though you may wish to make the outside edges with an outside pin (pin under 4) using an extra pair. The center band of half stitch can be replaced with any filling of your choice, there are some lovely Milanese braids which would look lovely here. I made the two 5 pair trails and sewed the half stitch center in afterwards. See the coloured diagram for the order of work. I would be tempted to use 15 pairs and work the trails and half stitch together in one go.
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| Suggested workings. |
I played about with the points, finding that most of them can be made with the 'double double' sharp point technique, (Idrija = sharp point using two sewings and two turning stitch passives). The Idrija technique for making asymmetrical points will work nicely here too.
The wings are made with the center trails first, then the outside edge to avoid working over the pins. The position and number of bars can alter the narrow areas between the wing trails, use the minimum to create a dark space between trails, add more bars to fill in spaces between bars. Compare the plume on the head to see a trail shape filled with bars, and the cheek with no bars.
The .pdf pattern is available on my Facebook page Lesley's Lace under the Files tab.