Little Red Riding Hood Embroidery

Happy Saturday!  I hope it is beautiful wherever you are, and that you are getting to spend your weekend just as you'd hoped you would.

I finally finished the Little Red Riding Hood embroidery that I started way too long ago.  (You may remember it from here.)  I know this is a wonky mess, but it really ended up being a series of little experiments.  I say I'm finished, but in truth, I'm thinking of adding a little cloud or two to the background before I completely quit the hand stitching.  This has been a project that has kept growing.  I started out to do just a quick outline of the picture, but then what is Red Riding Hood without a really red cape?  I had to fill it in somehow, so I attempted a small chain stitch.  After I did, the tree called for more detail.  I stitched in just a little bit (I don't even know if that is a legitimate stitch.) to suggest a bark like texture, but it didn't look right with just a few here and there.  So, of course,  I went ahead and filled in the whole trunk.  You know where that led...  those green globs of  leaves had to be filled as well.  That resulted in a wonky, haphazard mess, but I just left it that way.  This was just for fun and to get me back into the swing of embroidery.  It still keeps wanting to grow,  now it seems to need a little background.  Especially since it got a stain on it that needs covering somehow.  Oh, well, I'll see what I can do with that and then try to figure out what I'm going to do with it when I'm finished stitching.  Any ideas?  I'm leaning toward making a small quilted wallhanging.

Stitching Little Red

As a girl who loves the color red, I can't help but be partial to a fairy tale that sports the color in the title. I guess I'll go ahead and confess that I always wanted a red hooded cape, and of course, a basket full of goodies wouldn't get turned down around here either. I'd even share them with Grandma...... oh wait, I am Grandma! Anyway, what I'm trying to tell you is I liked the story of Little Red, it has just enough scary in it to be fun, and it's so outlandish even a child couldn't really be scared for long. I mean who would really believe that an old hairy wolf was Grandma? Grandpa maybe, but surely not Grandma!

I've been working on a piece of embroidery from the story. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it when I finish it. I might put it on an apron, or maybe make a pocket for a book bag, or use it for the focal piece of a quilt. Either way, I'd love to pair it with some of Aneela Hoey's A Walk in the Woods fabric.

I'm afraid my Little Red looks a little older than the character from the story, but I still kind of like it. Do you think this may be some sort of Freudian slip that has to do with me still wanting that cape?