When we went to Igaküla to do an embroidery internship with Leida last summer, the two best embroiderers in our course, Anne-Ly and Liia, had one more special task to complete. They planned to embroider a pocket with Muhu embroidery for the bag book we had created in the course.
Liia chose a beautiful pattern with rose hips, cornflowers, daisies, and cornflowers for her first project, while Anne-Ly had decided to learn how to embroider a poppy.
We started the first day of embroidery right after breakfast and only managed to finish at 11 pm, when there was no more light to work on the terrace.
When I looked up from the strawberries I had picked during the day's work, I was amazed - Liia had managed to finish almost all of her work with perfect stitches in the same amount of time!
Anne-Ly, however, was completing a poppy flower, which, despite her own self-critical objections, looked absolutely beautiful even halfway through. Since Leida has also said that embroidering a poppy is more difficult than other flowers, Anne-Ly's undertaking was particularly awe-inspiring. In the end, she even managed to do what seemed impossible to a beginner - following the example of one of Leida's works, she even embroidered a fold into the petal. From this wrote about the work Anne-Ly blogged here a while ago.
In the book "30 Unique Bags", which was produced in collaboration with the textile distance learning students of the Räpina Horticultural School, you can find ideas, tutorials and patterns for various bags - from shopping bags to shoulder and backpack bags, cosmetic bags and theater bags. The embroideries inspired by Leida's creations are the dessert on top of the goods. Hopefully, a little of the scent of the flowers of the Igaküla pasture has also been recorded in the book.
Annika
Link to the book http://apollo.ee/product.php/3067005