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zaterdag 30 april 2011
What's on my needles?
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vrijdag 29 april 2011
Live Laugh Love
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woensdag 27 april 2011
Plos fabric book
My fabric book of the samplers for Sharon's class Personal Library of Stitches is finished. This is the front of the cover. I made layers of linen, Mistyfuse, the orts of Nefertiti, Mistyfuse and organza. That way Nefertiti is part of my fabric book too, as I also stitched her at the back of the cover. At the edge of the organza I made 2 rows of opposite buttonhole stitches. The curvy lines are stitched in Portuguese stem stitches. All stitches are done with perle 5.
Page one, my border sampler. I temporary added a piece of felt to the inside of the cover to hide a personal stitched message.
Page two, with a quote to remind me of this article.
Page three, I called this sampler Birth.
Page four, a sampler in Chevron stitches with 17 different threads.
Page five, a sampler stitched on felt.
Page six, stitched on dark blue linen fabric.
Page seven, another border sampler.
The last page, I appliqued it to the back of the cover.
I stitched Nefertiti to the back of the cover in a Portuguese stem stitch.
The spine of my fabric book.
It was very difficult to take good photo's, so I made a video while I was flipping throught the pages. If you want to know more about my samplers, just follow this link.
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maandag 25 april 2011
Dragonfly
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zaterdag 23 april 2011
donderdag 21 april 2011
Tree of Hope
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woensdag 20 april 2011
Leaves in my studio journal
This is one of my new gesso pages.
I made a print in the gesso with this leave. It was part of a Christmas decoration.
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dinsdag 19 april 2011
EGGZZZZellent
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maandag 18 april 2011
Square eyelets & French knots
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zaterdag 16 april 2011
Pulled thread
Today I added some pulled thread stitches to my raised stem stitch band. First I made waffle stitches.
Then I made an eyelet inside the loop of the raised stem stitch band. I used a perle 12 for both.
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vrijdag 15 april 2011
Plos fabric book cover finished
donderdag 14 april 2011
Work In Slow Progress 14
When I was organising the photo's on my computer, I found a photo of the layout of my quilt Safari. I started it in August 2008!
In Januari I sandwiched it and now I'm halfway quilting it. As you can see I just quilt an X in every square, except for the one's with a zebra. I'm not sure what to quilt in the border yet.
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woensdag 13 april 2011
Zentangled V
Before I knew that Mooka would be the zentangle challenge last week, I used it on my zentangled V. For the letter I used a Chevron variation. Yesterday Janine told me it had arrived . . .
. . . and this lovely zentangled V arrived in my mailbox.
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dinsdag 12 april 2011
Casalguidi again
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I try to visit Stitchin Fingers every day to see what people have been doing. Yesterday this lovely casalguidi reminded me of my first raised stem stitch band. I made that one 2 years ago for the Stitch Explorer challenge. Lyckily I knew where it was hiding, because I used the same doodle cloth for my Contrast ATC. The fabric around my raised stem stitch band was just enough for a small ornament. I still had some of the thread I had used for it and made a Portuguese stem stitch border. To be continued!
maandag 11 april 2011
Altered Hedebo
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Last Friday I watched this video about waterclolour paint on zentangles. I wanted to try that, but didn't want to wait until the pen was completely dry. So I used an old tile, my first Hedebo tangle. I was playing with watercolour paint in my studio journal and used the same colours for this tile. After painting I used a damp sponge to remove some yellow paint and stamping it into the open spaces. I like it!
zondag 10 april 2011
Work In Slow Progress 13
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Labels:
cross stitch,
embroidery,
Gaspeldoorn,
Gorse Fairies,
WISP
zaterdag 9 april 2011
Blue flower
I've been experimenting with gesso in my studio journal, I just started a new journal for this. I have so many idea's and want to try them all. This time I mixed gesso with dark blue watercolour paint. There was some gesso left when I finished my page, so I put it on an inchie. When it was dry I added the brown watercolour paint to turn it into a flower. I just put a big drop of paint in the centre and made marks with a wooden cocktail stitck. I like the result!
This is part of the blue gesso in my studio journal. It was still wet when I took a photo. My oldest daughter gave me a marble and told me to make marks with it in the gesso. We keep inspiring each other the last few weeks, but she turns her idea's into digital art.
Labels:
inchie,
journaling,
painting,
studio journal,
verven
vrijdag 8 april 2011
Plos fabric book cover 3
A few days ago I finished Nefertiti on the back of my cover. This time I only stitched the outlines in a whipped backstitch.
Today I finally knew how to finish the border at the right side to solve the problem I wrote about last week. I added 2 rows of two opposite rows of buttonhole stitches with French knots between them. This is the bottom right corner.
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donderdag 7 april 2011
Mooka-licious
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dinsdag 5 april 2011
Mooka
maandag 4 april 2011
Batik curves
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zondag 3 april 2011
Red
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This link on Pintangle triggered an old cherished memory. When my daughters were little, they were learning the colours and how to handle scissors. I covered 2 shoeboxes with paper in red and blue, their favourite colours at the time. Then I gave them some magazines and let them cut the red and blue parts from photo's. I collaged them on the boxes for them. Now I made a red page in my journal in this technique too. This was fun!
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