
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Diamonds
Last weekend I started a new embroidery with this design. I'm going to embroider it in needlepoint and started with diamonds. I'm working on a 25 count linen with perle 5.
This is the part of the pattern I've already finished. It's the upper left corner.

Monday, May 30, 2011
Couldn't resist again
Last week I wrote about a resist experiment in my studio journal. This weekend I tried the first part of the same video. Saturday I made a red page. I used 4 different red colours and made the drippings from right to left.
In this detail you can see the vertical brushsstrokes of the gesso.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
TAST fabric book page 4

Friday, May 27, 2011
String Theory

- Stick Weave
- Lupe
- Ixorus
- Flukes
- Elegance
- FEDR
- Printemps
Now I'm going to have a look at what you all did with this string.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Buttonhole stitch
My second sampler for the stitch files is the buttonhole stitch. I use a big piece of 28 count linen and when it's filled with samplers, I'm going to attach them to the worksheets. This time I used stranded floss (Venus) and perle 5, 8 and 12. The size is 2 1/2 x 4 inch.
Two opposite rows of Stef Francis perle 5 and a green row with perle 12.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Vaas

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Couldn't resist
. . . to try this technique after watching the video in this tutorial. For now I only tried the second part with freezer paper. Some of you might recognize this design from my studio journal. I used the freezer paper templates from my quilt and the label to make a mirror image in my studio journal. Then I drew some tulips with a white crayon. I used an umber watercolour paint and removed the freezer paper while the paint was still wet.
This is a detail of the tulips. It was fun to watch the crayon resist the watercolour paint. I like the effect of this technique.

Monday, May 23, 2011
Etui
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Bird's Nest


Saturday, May 21, 2011
Rust dyeing

Friday, May 20, 2011
Zentangle challenge #22
Last tuesday I asked my oldest daughter to draw a string for this week's zentangle challenge.
This is what I made of it. I used 2 of my patterns (Bloem and Wigwam), 2 new ones (OOF and FEDR) and some patterns from my books and printouts.

Thursday, May 19, 2011
Raindrops
Sometimes I only have to step into the garden to find some inspiration. There was some rain a few days ago and afterwards the sun was shining. I took lots of photo's from different plants and flowers. But this first photo is a spider web between some stones.
This is part of a flower bud, it's an Oriental Poppy. We planted it last week and I'm looking forward seeing it bloom.
We also planted some daisies. I like the raindrops on the petals.
When I was taking photo's of my pansies, I saw this bee. This was a lucky shot, you can see its tongue. These pansies didn't stop flowering since we planted them in October!
These photo's already inspired me to some tangling for this week's zentangle challenge. My daughter drew a complex string for me, it's not finished yet.




Wednesday, May 18, 2011
More fabric beads
When a quilting friend has its birthday, I make some fabric beads for them. I used this tutorial. For this first bead I used buttons on both ends.
Here I used a shiny fabric and a fluffy thread.
Another one with a shiny fabric and a boucle thread.
The photo's of the finished pieces were very bad, but you can see the first one I made here.



Monday, May 16, 2011
Work In Slow Progress 15

I've made some progress since the last time I wrote about my Gorse Fairies. The skirt of the girl is nearly finished and I stitched the last green stitches of the pattern. I still have a lot of backstitches to add, but I'll wait until I finished the flowers.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
TAST fabric book page 3

Friday, May 13, 2011
In the garden
Yesterday we worked in the garden. We bought some new plants and I almost forgot to take a few photo's. This is our new Spirea.
Blogger had some troubles and temporarily removed yesterdays post Wigwam. They are in the progress of restoring, so I hope it's back soon.

Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wigwam

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Switching needles

Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Dragonfly in my mailbox
Monday, May 9, 2011
Backstitch
After all those finished projects lately, it was time to start something new! The only embroidery I'm working on right now is my Gorse Fairies, a very old cross stitch kit. This was the perfect time to finally start working on my samplers for Sharon's stitch files. I use a big piece of 28 count linen and when it's filled with samplers, I'm going to attach them to the worksheets. That allows me to stitch the samplers close together. I started with the backstitch in stranded DMC, a variegated silk thread and perle 5, 8 and 12. The size is 2 1/2 x 4 inch.
Here I used the backstitch as a filling stitch in different ways and threads.
Some blackwork designs.
The quilt block cardtrick in backstitches. The squares of the blackwork design reminded me of it. It's special to me, because I used this block for the label of my first quilt.
I also remembered the Holbein motif I stitched on my chicken scratch sampler. Here I stitched it in backstitches, the purple row is a variegated thread.




Saturday, May 7, 2011
Casalguidi ornament



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