I bought these two cards at last week's swap card club meeting. Unusual addition to my peacock swap cards!

Hand towel.

If you are going to stitch a peacock in cross stitch, you should be a lot more careful than the person who did this! (hope she's not reading this). It may have been done by a young girl who hasn't been taught properly, or perhaps someone whose eyesight isn't the best, and they haven't noticed that half the stitches are in the opposite direction to the rest. Sorry if you think I sound too critical, but if you are building a collection of items, naturally you only want good stuff in your collection. I'll keep it, but it won't be on show when I'm out and about!

Table runner.

This is one end of a large table runner, and I have two of them, from the USA via eBay. The stitching is colourful, but it has been done using six strands of floss, which means the end result isn't as fine as it would have been if two or three strands had been used.

Pillowcase

This is one of a pair of pillowcases. The stitching is complete, but the ends of the pillowslip haven't been finished off.

This panel is one of a pair of identical cross stitch panels I bought on eBay from the USA recently. It is only the second example that have of a peacock in cross stitch, and I am impressed!
Posted by Picasa

Some more Peacock swap/playing cards that I picked up last week. The one on the left is a bit hard to see clearly; it is green and gold on the black background. The other two are so unusual, I nearly missed them on my hunt for peacock themed cards!
Posted by Picasa

This is part of a table runner (or scarf as the Americans call them). The design is unfortunately too big for my scanner, but I wanted to include at least part of it here. The stitching is absolutely incredible. I think it is called Swedish Weaving - on a material similar to Huckabuck, and the stitches don't show in full on the reverse.
Posted by Picasa

The larger doiley in a pair that I received from the USA today. I think the stitching on these two is particularly good.
Posted by Picasa

....and the matching smaller doiley.
Posted by Picasa

Peacock in cross stitch - my first! This is one corner of a suppercloth that I discovered in an opshop today, for $6!! I hardly ever go in this shop because it is in a 'trendy' area and usually too expensive for my liking. But this cloth must have missed the eagle eye of the lady who does the pricing!
Posted by Picasa

Posted by Picasa
A pillowcase with a difference: the flowers are painted on, not stitched! The eBay seller mentioned this on her auction, and wondered if it was meant to be like that, or if it was actually unfinished. I have looked closely at it, and cannot see any transfer marks under the stitching or the painted area, so perhaps the whole design was printed on the material in colour originally, and someone just decided to embellish the peacock!
Posted by Picasa
posted by Gina E. at 10:13 PM

1 Comments:
Maggie Ann said...
You can't tell the flowers are painted...I remember when that was quite popular here though. Painting...many ladies enjoyed it and I could see why. Quicker, for one thing.

.
Posted by Picasa
This is one end of a pillowcase from the USA. It was accompanied by a matching table runner - the same design stitched on each end. Bit hard to see here, but the stitching is really lovely - the pink flowers being done in Lazy Daisy and French Knots.
Posted by Picasa
posted by Gina E. at 10:09 PM

1 Comments:
Maggie Ann said...
Yes, this is very pretty...I love the proportions of the peacock and fence with garlands on it. I just thought to myself last night...why am I not making and embroidering my own pillowcases??? Victoria catalog has such pretty ones for sale at a pretty penny you can be sure and the edges are just a sewn scallop and very lovely.

One of four peacocks on a full size tablecloth.
Posted by Picasa
Maggie Ann said...
What a find for your collection! I'm definitly a crinoline lady fan over peacocks but I know they are very special too! In fact, I don't think I've ever one in person...embroidered, that is...grin.

Toaster/appliance cover, matching tablecloth above.
Posted by Picasa
Maggie Ann said...
Oh, now we're cookin...I love toaster covers..

This doiley is the centrepiece of a duchess set, but I don't have the matching small doilies. It was embroidered in these colours when I bought it, and I'll always wonder if the stitcher followed a pattern or used her imagination with the colours? My unfinished version is below.
Posted by Picasa

A year or so after I obtained the doiley pictured above, this one turned up on eBay, complete with matching doilies. One of the small doilies had been completed, but not the other, nor had this large one been started. There was no instructions provided, so I decided to do my own thing and use colours which matched a real peacock as closely as I could. Ken said tonight "why didn't you use some of your sparkly threads for the eyes?" If I'd had Pam's metallic threads when I started working on this, I would certainly had used them! But I ain't gonna pull all that stitching out now!
Posted by Picasa

One end of a table runner. Sorry I can't fit the entire design in the scanner, but at least you get the most important part - the peacock!
Posted by Picasa

An unusual (art deco style?) doiley I had forgotten about until I went searching for more to scan on to this blog!
Posted by Picasa

Another lovely centrepiece doiley. Note the nice blue crocheted edge. I'm not usually keen on coloured crochet edges, but in this case it complements the colours used in the design.
Posted by Picasa

If you look closely, this doily is almost the same as the one I posted a few days ago. This is one end of a centrepiece I have had for a while, and didn't realise how similar it was to the other one until I took them out to compare tonight. The colours are different, and the tail on this one is longer than the other doiley.
Posted by Picasa

This is the smaller doiley matching the centrepiece below.
Posted by Picasa

This is one end of the centrepiece in the three piece duchess set I won on eBay last week. Sorry it is so tiny; you may have to click on the image to enlarge it, but that might lose clarity, which would be a pity, as it is all stitched with one strand - quite beautiful.
Posted by Picasa

I found these three swap cards at the collectors club meeting I attended last Sunday. It was the first meet. I'd been to for about 2 years, and I didn't get to see all the cards on sale. I am sure there are more Peacock cards; I'm on a mission now!!
Posted by Picasa

I might have to amend the title of this blog to Patra's Peacocks, seeing I'm not confining the pictures to embroidered versions! This Satsuma bowl also belonged to my step-mum. As you can see, I tried to scan the bowl, with dubious results, but you can see the peacock design...sort of!
Posted by Picasa

This brass dish belonged to my stepmother. I inherited all her ornaments when she died, and she obviously liked peacocks as well.
Posted by Picasa

My only Peacock swap cards! I thought I had more, and I know there are others around. Guess I'll have to go shopping for them!
Posted by Picasa

WW1 Embroidered postcard

My favorite pillowslip!

Three more pillowcases.

Another runner

Table runner

Not one of my favorites; inferior stitching.

More doilies...

One of many pillowslips from the USA.

Fat quarter for quilting.

Small doiley in this pair.

More doilies...large one in a pair

Peacock in filet crochet

Small doiley of this pair.

Large doiley in set of two

Table runner

Doiley

Welcome!

In response to the interest in my collection of embroidered peacocks, I am attempting to transfer the original scanned Peacock items from my blog Patra's Place, to this blog.