Joyce D's Starfish

The background fabric is hand dyed and salted to get the different shadows. I then laid Angelina fibres between the background fabric and white nylon tulle. This created a shiny watery effect for the background.

The stumpwork starfish was stitched with 2 strands of DMC floss and 1 strand of rayon and then attached to the background. The rayon gave the starfish a ‘wet’ look. The long leaves were also stitched as a stumpwork slip and then attached. .

There are three various size stitched ’shells’. I used #12 perle cotton in two shades. The large ’shell’ is over a small plastic ring; the two smaller ones were started by wrapping the thread around a pencil and then using a buttonhole stitch to make the circle stronger. The centres and outside edges are detached buttonhole.

I added a couple of pieces of sea glass and some shells that I had in my stash.