Monday, October 10, 2022

STILL LEARNING!


I used water colour pens to paint directly onto the fabric in a very rough fashion. Free machine stitching was added to form the flower head and I thought I was heading in the right direction. 


Much later the table top was covered in a variety of fabrics but I knew immediately that a background fabric was not amongst them! I was keen to be stitching so a dyeing session was not on my agenda. Plan B was to quickly paint some pieces of cotton with my favourite Koh-I-Norr colours. I like to lightly spray the fabric with water which allows the colours to bleed and I also work with the fabric laid on soft plastic which also adds lines and movement whilst the paint dries. 

Before long I was happily stitching into the fabric and appliquéing various petal shapes to stitch into. The samples were quite pleasing although the dense stitching caused some puckering which was very unpleasing!!


For the finished flower head I used a hoop for the embroidery but it did leave a mark (hardly surprising considering the thickness of the layers and stitch). I also need to stock up on some new metallic threads as I feel the centre cone would have benefited from a little extra sparkle. Sometimes a project can become a learning curve and this certainly was one of them. I am happy to share my not so perfect work today but I will have to think of some alternatives for working in this fashion again.


I keep some old pieces of mountboard to play with before deciding on a final mount size and for this piece I ended up with three choices. When I look at older mounted pieces I often seem to be drawn to the off centre image rather than a central position but sometimes I find a different aspect to be quite refreshing.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful colours Annie.

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  2. Good afternoon Ann and thank you. I really loved working with this colour combination, my next piece is very orange indeed - I think you would approve!!

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