Admittedly, i overthought this section, but i’m happy anyways with the results (still in progress). The idea/execution however is getting a bit *too* “figurative”! It’s time to think of texture and effect as well as the “embrilting”.
As soon as i finished the wing on the upper right figure, i flashed back to 2014, when i was working on “The Weight She Carries”. At the time, though i wanted redder madders than i was getting, i used synthetic dyes (Procion/Rit/Dylon, whatever was in the drawer) to get a range of reds. (The coral/peach “puffs” in the photo are the madder results i was getting at that time.) The feathers on this wing are a textural smorgasbord, and perhaps i can draw from these, literally, in shape, and figuratively, in feel.
I could see wings on the back of this garment, but that might be a bit much! I can’t/don’t want to make them smaller to fit in a section either, as they would be too fiddly to work, and would lose the point and effect. Perhaps a few scattered?
albedo too 
Beautiful work! Has a dream-like quality that is spectacular! Also love the intricacy of your stitches! Thanks you for sharing this.
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Thank you Louise!
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Would love to fly with her…………….
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don’t know if she’s coming or going, taking or leaving, but her visit is welcome
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Thank you for sharing your thought processes, I must do more of that- writing as thinking. As I read I thought about the wings that lift us up-family, friends, stitching.
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I greatly appreciate that, Anne–the wing is “part” of my Guardian Angel from the 2013 floods.
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