There are videos of people teaching versions but none gave me a pattern... I found one on line
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| SunCatcherStudio.com |
at first I cut it out large since it was drawn to scale. Too big for a pin cushion but great for a box... so then I cut it out as shown.
I used pink felt scraps since the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pink! yea! It looks wonky in these photos but it's a precious little sturdy 3 X 3 X 4 inches, stuffed with walnut shells in a little scrap bag, with fiberfil on top.
I just randomly put things on like thick threads, felt bits, beads...
love the felted spotty roof, the flower shaped beads
I stitched on it while chatting to my friend Cindy one afternoon. She suggested sticks and french knots
Mais Oui! Magnifique Love how the hand dyed size 5 perle cotton changes color.
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| already on the job with my night time hexi sewing |
I happily played with my threads, beads, and worked by hand (the aqua box is one of 4 I got at IKEA or the container store, I think... they come in handy for little things to keep together
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| paper and black pen |
I used a few on this quick color play
watercolor impressionist series Kuretake, ink pens and posca paint pens
I learn by doing... painted a pink triangle and used blue posca acrylic pen over it, and it looks blue with pink but was done the opposite way. How do colors look next to each other? try them and see
one day I despaired of my round face... now looking old because of a series of physical set backs so I thought, I'd paint the roundest face and make her pretty... a la Botero
Grace never liked her round face, but she faced the world full on, standing up for herself. She knew her worth and was who she was unapologetic-ally. The spiral is for time/infinity, the hand for her artistry, the heart speaks for itself as she always lived by her good heart. She deserved the moon and the stars .
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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
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 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
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.
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| 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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