Creativity round up with lots of pictures!

 welcome to this week's creative round up... the index card a day prompt was PLAY so I printed out three of my fave toys from childhood and the word in French, collaged them, and painted around. I wrote on the back as I am doing each day...

I am using a pretty hinged box to store my icad art... the one lying on top is from the prompt cyanotype

Mostly this week I was immersed in an embroidery workshop, (Embroidery Summit) 7 instructors a day X 5 days! I'll share some work in progress... it was my goal to learn new techniques and go back to finish them after the week was done. I used an old cut up blue shirt from dh, and scraps of fabric... I also used a painted piece of fabric as a base to work on through the week, adding to it daily

I experienced many forms of embroidery, like sewing through paper... I painted a figure on first

crochet... then slip stitching a design over, now that was fun!

>Ribbon embroidery... done differently than I've done in the past.

>lazy daisy stitches in variegated lavender to form lavender branch

> choosing stitches to best interpret different fonts while trying different threads from DMC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pet portraits... first trace the main lines from your own pet's photo, transfer to fabric. My error was in not using water soluble stabilizer to stitch through... it's gummy when soaked so I used tearway and it pulled on my stitches. 

It's not finished of course, there wasn't time to finish any project... but I learned...

I learned split stitch, and different ways to stitch leaves and branches...bouillon stitch several ways, turkey stitch (the fraying one) woven flowers combined with satin stitch

I'm highly excited to make delicate floral sprays with tiny french knots onto back stitched branches. I have something like these growing in a pot on the patio, but not this glorious variegated blue color!

a lot of teachers wanted to have us do the woven flowers but they are messy and eat up thread... so I stopped early here and finished with an outside row of lazy daisy stitches, and some golden French knots. I love the little bird... and want to finish this one. 

One of my favorite stitches is the leaf overlap stitch... very effective in variegated green thread. 

I have an ongoing love of French knots so making an entire flower head of them was lots of fun

I'm reminded that satin stitch isn't my favorite to do as it never quite looks full enough but this bee is going to look great... 

the 3-d pom pom flower is fun too!!!

last but not least is in honor of RSC to use bright blue scraps this month... a lesson in overlapping scraps and embroidering them into a finished piece....

gathering scraps and threads and extra's to couch down

the object is texture... silks, fraying, couched yarn, different stitches. Very collage, very messy, very abstract. There is difficult to use thick gold thread, sheers, boucle yarn. I repeated triangles in stitch as well as fabrics, in different angles.

now what to do with that??! a piece of that blue shirt made it's way in too!

I was mid binding and sleeve sewing on the Leaf Study... so it can be shown next week. For now, I think I'll stitch on these projects a bit more, but return to painting the coming week. 

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