The White Tree of Gondor - Banner for a Boy

I don't know how many of your remember the shield I made for my husband for Father's Day. It had the White Tree of Gondor on it from LOTR.

When my nephew visited during the summer, he was quite taken with the shield. In addition, to becoming attached to the shield he learned a verse about it from my daughters and they ran around quoting it all the time.

As a result, I decided to make him a banner with the tree and the verse on it.

I found an image of the tree on the web. I wish I had found the one I used for the shield, I liked the shape of that tree better.

Then again maybe I am glad I didn't find it. It would have taken a lot longer to embroider!! I used dress maker's paper to transfer the image to the black fabric and then I embroidered it with white embroidery floss.

I found stone 'beads' that I sewed down for the seven stones and fake gems that I glued down as the stars.

I printed the verse on white fabric using my printer and some freezer paper.

Here is the text for the verse:

Tall ships and tall kings three times three.
What brought they from the foundered land
over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones and one white tree.

When I added the trim, I ripped out and restitched the trim for the section above the text. It still isn't great. :(

I used fabric from my stash. The text is printed on scraps from some pillows I made a few years ago, the tree is stitched on the back of an old black denim shirt, the backing of the project is fleece, the hanging tabs are remains of some double fold bias tape from an old project several years agao (no more tape left). :)

I had to buy the stones and the gems.

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