Coming up to the End of July

I have been working on my tapestry as often as I can and for as long as I can each day. Progress is there but I still have to take a lot of breaks, sometimes to rethink an approach but sometimes to ice my shoulder.

I had hubby help me hang the work outside a few days ago. For all the effort and pain, I thought my progress was frightfully slow.

But two weeks later everything is different, it feels different even if its just that a small part is starting to fill out.

A lot of this is improv as I go. And what you don't see is what I removed and replaced.

Some of it is stitched, some lightly fused and some glued.

So as I come up to week 10, and have been declared officially healed I can confidently work a little longer and harder without and worries of upsetting my time table again.

While it doesn't seem like much, all this early blocking is important as it sets the location and proportions of the scene.

I decided to finish blocking this left hand side and bring the work out to the edge of the required dimensions

And again when you look at the whole, it doesn't seem as though much progress has happened.

In the meantime, a lot of ideas were considered and tossed and a lot of problems were resolved.