Feather stitch again

Today I made the last feather stitches on my Aida. I choose this fabric to focus on my experiments with rows of feather stitches. I didn’t want to spend too much time selecting my embroidery threads, so I used a colour palette in my studio journal. My first experiment is stitched in purple perle 12 and yellow perle 8. I decorated the stacked rows with buggle beads.

From top to bottom: Stef Francis spun silk with flames, 2 threads of stranded DMC and perle 8. In the last row I alternated small and wide stitches.

An experiment with 2 threads of stranded DMC. The arms of the yellow feather stitches are different; the left side is half the size of the right size. Then I added the buttonhole stitches.

This is the same row after adding the buttonhole stitches at the other side.

A few days ago I showed the floral spray in my altered book. Yarngoddess asked me what I’m going to do with the back of the page. This is how it looks now. I secured the threads with tape, so there are no knots.

 I’m not sure I want to hide this when I glue the pages together, maybe I do something special with it so I can still see parts of it.