
Thursday, June 30, 2011
TAST fabric book page 7
These are the stitches for weeks 25-29 of the TAST 2010 challenge. My fuchsia was inspired by Maureen's fuchsia. I wrote about how I made the raised chain circle here.
There are photo's with more info about each stitch in my TAST album at Flickr.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Little Pear
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hearts

Look what I found, a completed block for my Groninger blanket! I used the pattern of the hearts on page 7 of this pattern. Now I only have to knit one more block and I found my notes for that one too.
Monday, June 27, 2011
New ATC's in my mailbox
I've got some lovely ATC's in the last few weeks. The first one is a fabric ATC made by Carolyn.
Debra knew I like sunflowers. I hope the ones in my garden will be as pretty as this one.

Sunday, June 26, 2011
Gobelin filling

It's almost 2 weeks since I wrote about my needlepoint vase. But there's some progress. I used a gobelin filling with 4 threads of blue stranded DMC for the wavy lines. At the left side you see a part of the diamonds I made for the background. At the right the chevron for the vase. I'm not done yet, I'll post a photo of the complete embroidery when it's finished.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Kutchwork
Last week I was flipping through the pages of my studio journal and found a half finished design for my red CYL (colour your life) collage. Now I finally knew how to finish it, I only needed an embroidered sample of kutchwork. This is the same Gingham fabric as my chicken scratch experiments. I used stranded DMC for my first trial.
Then I tried a perle 5. This was the look I wanted! I like the different colours of the holes.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Asparagus Verdigogh

Thursday, June 23, 2011
Texas Rangers

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
New old books!
Yesterday I visited a second-hand store. I never walk out empty handed! This time I found 2 great books from the 70's. A small one about needle lace with some lovely full size patterns. The rose on the cover is one of the patterns.
This is a big book, half embroidery - half macrame.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Zentangled X
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hitchhiker



Sunday, June 19, 2011
Hairpin lace spiral

Saturday, June 18, 2011
Spiral

Friday, June 17, 2011
Glue and watercolour paint
Suz showed a great experiment with glue and watercolour paint a few weeks ago. She made cards from it and I recieved one of them last week. I just had to try this technique too. I used PVA glue and watercolour paint in red, yellow and purple. At the bottom left side I mixed the yellow and red.
I took lots of detail photo's and had fun with them on my computer.

Thursday, June 16, 2011
TAST fabric book page 6
These are the stitches for weeks 21-24 of the TAST 2010 challenge. You can watch the slipped detached chain grow in a slideshow here.
There are photo's with more info about each stitch in my TAST album at Flickr.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011
50
Monday, June 13, 2011
Diamonds & Chevron
Today I stitched the last diamonds at the background of my vase design. The vase is done in chevrons. I already removed the blue water-soluble lines, but a wet embroidery doesn't photograph well.
I already showed some details of the stitches here and here. Now I need to think about what to do with the wavy lines.

Saturday, June 11, 2011
Tangled vase

After finishing my appliqued vase and starting on my needlepoint vase it was time to try a tangled one too!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Zentangled W
The zentangled ATC alphabet continues. I made this W for Janine . . .
. . . and Stephan made this pretty W for me.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Chevron
I'm still working on this design in needlepoint. After stitching half of the diamonds it was time to try a new stitch, the chevron. The thread is a variegated Stef Francis perle 5.
I filled the vase with chevrons and now I'm stitching the remaining diamonds.

Monday, June 6, 2011
In my mailbox
This lovely card from Suz was in my mailbox a few days ago. She wrote about the making of it here. I'm going to try this technique soon!
A close up of the painted part of the card. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's much prettier in reality.
Yesterday, Suz showed all the cards she made on her blog.


Sunday, June 5, 2011
Alphabet zentangle G & H



Saturday, June 4, 2011
TAST fabric book page 5

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