Hi all, I am posting my July embroidery journal project today. It was a bit of an experiment! The idea of red stuck in my head. I wanted to do something with summer fruit. I ended up with currants, raspberries and cherries represented in this little project. I was a bit free with my interpretation […]
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I recently purchase a book about exploring color by Julia Caprara. The book has a number of exercises to help you learn to work with color. One of them is making a color journal. I have to confess though that I find doing journal exercises to be a bit contrived, but I wanted to give
I used to sew quite a bit of clothing. I made all sorts of different garments, even a wedding dress for my sister. I am not sure what made me stop, maybe less time, and the outlets had decent quality for the price. Times have changed though. But first, my creation! I have sewn a
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I have finished my project. It’s different for me, so I was actually hesitant to post it here at all. I call it Sun and Rain. It’s a texture study. The background represents the sun, of course, and the blue, the rain. The blue is not to mean puddles though. It is holes in the
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I got a question somewhere, what happened to the frog eggs I collected in the spring. Well, they are still alive, I am happy to report! We put them in a plastic box and filled it with water and some plant material. I have to confess that I forgot about them for awhile. I
These little guys must be one of the sure signs of summer. I don’t see many around here, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking about them. For this project I decided to do things just a little differently. That is my “process” for making a design. I made my pencil sketch as usual. My
Hi all, I’m back from family vacation time. I had a great time, but it’s always nice to be back to the regular schedule! I’m ready to go on some new projects with some new blogging energy. Hopefully the energy will sustain me for a good while into the future! I’ve been thinking to do
Here I finally am with a short summary of recent projects. This is the crewel version of my fruit wreath. The original fruit wreath was stumpwork: This is the footstool that the fruit wreath was made for. It’s about 10 inches in diameter. This is part of my effort to bring embroidery “off the wall”.
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I love the little flowers that spring brings. They are so pretty and delicate and quiet. I made a little photo collection of them. Perhaps you will find them to be inspirational. I will start off with my stitched white flowers. Stitched in wool, perhaps it is not the essence of delicate beauty, but white
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It’s been a few days now since the weekend passed, it’s almost the next one now, but I am finally sitting down to write this in any case. First, I wanted to rephrase myself from my last post. I realized later that I hadn’t expressed myself really well. I said I have seen other stitchers
