Embroidery Book 3, 2022-25, Pages 3-4

By Laura Vivanco on
I've put the bats on a white background so it's easier to see that their wings are made of tulle. They have shiny eyes.

These bats were a test in how tidily I could embroider so that the ends etc weren't visible on the front. They came from Graham Leslie McCallum's 4000 Animal, Bird & Fish Motifs. I made the two with fleece bodies in September 2022. I'm not sure when I made the third, but I thought it went well with the other two. It's flying away from them so, given their background fabric, the one by itself is a "bat out of hell" and the other two are following it.

The text I chose to accompany them is "And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil" (Matthew 6:13).

Two black bats are flying against an orange/red background. A third is flying on the same page as the text, on a white background.