Crafting in the Time of Corona IV

I finished my second Nero Wolfe cover! One of the challenges of the first cover was recreating the lettering of the title because the letters are so close together. I had used some back stitching between cross stitches on the body on the the first cover and I decided I should try that with the title of the second cover. So there are no spaces between the letters and I think it worked really well.

The challenge with this cover was the black and purple background. It was hard to figure out how to recreate the creeping nature of the black onto the purple in the original. My husband suggested using two purple and one black thread or vice versa around the edges of the splotches. I tried it using some of each and thought it helped but I was really worried that the black and purple still didn’t look right. Now that’s it’s done and framed I think it works!

In the first images of the cover I found the purples were quite different and those are the colors I recreated. I had printed out that first image but hadn’t saved it as it wasn’t in as good condition as the one above. The image was no longer available when I tried to search for it recently (I guess the book had been sold) but during that search I found another cover in the same series!

I’ll use my husband’s brillant mixed thread suggestion for the background when I tackle this one. But first I’m going to take a break and make a felt camping set with wooden figures for the felt playmat I gave my grandnephew.