ERIDAN (Eri King & Daniel Greer), Thank You For Shopping With Us, embroidered on 72"x72" plastic shower curtain, installation view at Hunter MFA Studios (Manhattan), 2016
Front lacing stays and busk of pink watered silk, lined with linen and fully boned. All the outside edges of the stays are bound with pink silk grosgrain ribbon. The sleeves are made separately and laced into the armholes with pink silk ribbons and points of tinned iron. There is a band of back-stitched embroidery at the neckline and armholes and a line of couched thread at the waist. The separate busk is boned vertically and horizontally, at the top, and completely bound with pink silk grosgrain ribbon.
[Stays] These front lacing pink silk stays have a high back cutting across the top of the shoulders, with a decolletage and a long pointed waist in front. Below the waist there are 11 boned tabs with silk gussets between them. The stays consist of three shaped pieces on each front, two side back pieces and two centre back pieces. The shoulder straps, each with an eyelet, extend from the back and attach with a ribbon through an eyelet on the front. The sleeves are wide and cut straight, extending to below the elbow. They attach to the corset with three ribbons each through thread eyelets. Four ribbons decorate the centre back tab. The stays are backed with linen and stitched with pink silk thread to make compartments of 4 to 5 mm width for the whalebone. Above the boning at the front, the fabric is reinforced with decorative stitching. The seams are reinforced with cross stitch and covered on the right side with pink silk grosgrain ribbon. The upper and lower edges of the stays are edged with pink silk grosgrain ribbon, as is the armhole. At the lower edge, there is a pink and green silk grosgrain ribbon underneath the pink one. The sleeves are lined with pink silk taffeta. The thread eyelets are made with buttonhole stitch. The ribbons are made of pink silk taffeta and retain their original tinned iron points.
[Busk] The pink silk busk is in the form of a curved ’T’, edged with pink ribbon. It is made of pink watered silk backed with linen and stitched with pink silk thread into 40 compartments for the whalebone, running vertically. The centre bone is 8mm wide with two of 7mm either side, alternating with strips of 4 mm wide. The lengthwise boning ends 3.5 cm from the top edge, which area is filled with 7 horizontal compartments of whaleboning. The busk is edged with pink silk grosgrain ribbon.
LET IT BE KNOWN that I, the artist of this hand embroidered portrait of Sherlock, hereby promise to complete this piece by June 30, 2020.
Please bother me to make sure I actually finish this lol it’s been two and a half years
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Update time!!
I got a ton of work done the past few evenings! This self inflicted deadline might just be possible! 61 days to go.
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Update 2
There’s about 6 hours worth of work done on his hair and another 2 on his jacket. Feeling a bit discouraged about his hair, since I find it’s a lot of work time going into it with not super noticable results. Plus my black thread knotted on the jacket agghhhh.
42 days left. Here’s hoping this is doable!
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Slow going, but work is getting done! Another 8 hours or so to his jacket.
35 days left! Maybe I can do this???
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Haven’t been embroidering much lately—using this time rather to do important learning and growing.
I’ll likely be extending my deadline to the end of August.
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Sorry folks, I’ve decided (100% true to my own character lol) to extend my deadline to the end of summer. Seemed like there were more important things to be doing and learning in June than embroidering.
New goal: September 1st! Let’s do this!
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Well, I’ve removed 4 hours of work and then put in another 6. Slowly but surely getting there.
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12 hours of work in since my last update! I’m not going to share a picture of the front for a while, but here’s a shot of the very messy back.
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ok ok, I’ll still share small updates of the front but likely won’t share a full picture for a while…keeps it more of a surprise then! Believe it or not we are getting much closer to the final reveal! (though maybe not for Sept 1st….sorry).
I’ve put another 7 hours into this section of hair. Sometimes as I’m embroidering I can kind of go on autopilot and stitch while watching a familiar show or something—not for this section! I’m looking at my reference for every stitch and need to be very focused.
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Ok I lied here’s an update
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Maybe you’ll notice the 4 hours I’ve put into this since last posting???
Super slow progress, but progress indeed has been made.
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Remember when I embroidered? Yeah neither do I
One day I’ll finish this. Super, super busy currently.
