Monthly Archives: August 2011

Time is flying by but I’m thinking I can make this very short deadline!

I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had time to blog but several days ago, I started adding the hand work that makes my work have so much texture.  I usually do many different stitches but this time, I’m limiting myself to just two — French knots and one I’m just making up to cover the oval spaces by the overlapping circles.  Here’s where I’m at.

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I changed my mind about couching light to dark.  I ripped out the first couple of circles and decided high contrast was better so I couched dark threads on the top lighter background.  Much better from a distance.

The last couple of days I’ve started adding decorative machine stitching to the pieces.  Here’s a small detail.  The juxtaposition of the circles on the background is starting to look exciting,  I’m happy about how this is developing.  Although I’m finding working in [...]

Today was a good day.

It’s always a good day when you know what you want to do and it turns out exactly the way your envisioned it!  (Not always easy!)

After looking at the background pieces on my design wall, I saw that my efforts at creating circles with a soy wax resist didn’t give me the depth of color and contrast I was hoping for.  So, I decided to outline the circles using embroidery thread.  Because I dyed the pieces [...]

The first thing I needed to do was create my background.  This project was too big for my studio so I contacted Susan Brooks to see if I could come dye in her studio.  She was on vacation so I couldn’t start immediately but we finally got together on Tuesday, August 16th.  After discussing my concept, Susan made a base fabric, dyed gold in a 1/4 strength dye for me to work on.

Her workshop is amazing! [...]