Here is the photo of my interpretation of the tortoise. You didn’t expect to see an actual tortoise rendition from me did you?

I used the geometric units in the picture, the octagon and triangle shapes from the shell, on the ground fabric. The yellow circles are used in the embroidered portion. The embroidery is done on a piece of felted silk and wool rovings. The felting was done using the method for making silk paper. I used the colors that were in the photograph and did embroidery in silk, cotton and metal threads with beading throughout.

The embroidery was attached to a thin card with double stick tape. The back of the postcard is off white cotton fused to heavy weight pellon and applied with double stick tape to the back of the embroidery. The postcard was stamped and hand cancelled at the post office and will be mailed in a separate envelope.

Eleanor