Slow Stitching - No. 019 - Kintsugi - Celebrate Imperfection

My next piece for the slow stitching challenge on K3N Cloth Tales.

It is week 19 and the prompt this week is Kintsugi - the Japanese practice of mending broken vessels with gold. 

I chose a blue scrap - possibly hand dyed. Not batik as it was nice to stitch. I cut the blue to create my fissure. I layered a piece of yellow cotton between the blue and the foundation layer.

I chose to stitch the wavy edges of the blue pieces first with an overcast stitch. 

Earlier I had checked what I had in my tiny supply of pearl cotton. 

I had a yellow but I thought it too bright.  

My sister suggested tea dyeing it.  That worked wonderfully.

In the end, I chose to mix the two. I ran 2 needles one with each color and I just used them alternately along the curve of gold.  We need to cover the fabric underneath completely so it took a long time to stitch it.

It is very textured and looks really great.

I did add some fine metallic thread through out the fissure as well.

I am really happy with this piece.