Wild and Beautiful - Jenny Bealing

Working out my design was the most difficult part of the challenge perhaps because I live in such a wild and beautiful part of the country talk about spoilt for choice. In the end the design evolved more than being properly planned and is totally different to what I had first thought of.

I had a remnant of 22 count linen and decided to see how it would take hooking and with the lovely variegated colours of Batik yarn flowers and leaves suggested themselves. In some places I used the yarn double and in others single also a small amount of sari silk and t shirting for different textures. The finished piece is as near to 6” by 4” as I could make it.

As a real experiment I wanted to add a third dimension a butterfly hooked into netting (an unravelled bath scrub!). A real challenge to get the yarns to hold in the netting which needed to be at least 4 layers in depth stretched tightly on a small embroidery hoop. Several attempts were needed to make the butterfly look as I wanted it but in the end I loved the effect.