watching paint dry, and fresh hand embroidery techniques

 

Welcome to this week's creative offerings... The image above is from one of my embroidery workshops, and it was a full week of lessons, 9 a day for 5 days... the embroidery summit. I couldn't do them all of course, but tried to print patterns and watch techniques from most. 

I seriously hurt my back/spine alignment, trying to finish the binding hand sewing on this quilt last Sunday. It's done when the hand work is done but it's bulky and heavy to work on so... can't do much now.

I let the index cards go for the most part, only able to do so much this week. I managed to do 3 cards

the prompts were " tranquility"

4" X 5" and thin paper, are just a bit challenging

the next challenge was "postage stamp" think about what you'd do to interpret that... I am grateful for Katie Porter in congress, for her explanations, and her smart way of  trying to help citizens have better lives. She's the adult daughter of a well know quilt teacher, whom I also like very much

the last prompt I tried was"unexpected"  I chatted with dh about that... it's not the same as surprise, or shock,  so what represents unexpected? He said, snow in late June would be... so...

a calendar page, sun with snowflakes... 

Now for some examples of things I tried on the embroidery lessons... I brought down some supplies to have next to the computer where I was watching the teachers...

I like the DMC variegated floss set my friend Cindy sent me,  but admit I like perle cotton best and I have a set of colors from precensia (on amazon) and some DMC balls that I like too. 

this teacher had us cut applique circles of fabric, and use running stitch to tack it down. I used silk scraps so this has quite a sheen in person. I put in two buttons and used a bit of green scrap to work on, it's all learning... with the cutaway scraps of silk, I tried a machine embroidery piece, took 5 min to do on a scrap of black felt

white cotton thread, some hand daisy stitches in yellow floss and a couple french knots. 

I often try lessons on the jeans from DH that I've cut up into various shapes... this was just practicing stitches in pattern

this was a reminder of woven rose... I tried lazy daisy for leaves, then stitched one long straight stitch inside each one... I like the effect, hard to see here but pretty way to use more color

this was an attempt to try something like sashiko... not a fan of stop and start of this pattern. I might make bags out of these or might piece them together into something quilt like, for now they are useful to try one little motif

It's not pressed, but this lesson was in making an olive branch

my favorite lesson was in various weaving techniques. The stem was effective, I love the texture of the flower center. It's done of a bit of denim, and some weaving stands away from the fabric very well

you weave the petals onto a straight pin joining them at the base to the fabric. The technique for the leaves was very different from anything I've done.

This is supposedly a style from hawaii of happy whimsical things, this time flowers with faces... onto watercolor paper.

you pierce the paper from your pattern creating a place to stitch but...

not fun

not fun nor easy to find the holes while holding your big piece of paper, then sometimes the thread pulled through as you worked, and not such smooth lines...

after stitched I painted the background with watercolors

very primitive to me, but I see doing my own thing on paper would be better, and I tried it... that's what learning is, 

I enjoyed watching a lesson on hand embroidering around a  photo printed  onto fabric.... I see myself doing that pretty often actually. I've done machine embroidery around printed photos but I liked the look of big flowers sewn to them. There's a winter scene with really texturized trees I want to follow up on too. 

I finished one petal in browns, one in oranges, now this in blue/greens

 

All in all, worth the time, and it was free. On to other sewing when my back improves, for now, I'm sitting in the family room, hand sewing small hexies for a fall star as I catch up on season 5 of the Outlander on netflix....

Happy arting y'all. 

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