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Aug 21, 2006

Summer stitchery


I'm not really back from the holidays because this week I'm travelling to Germany till Sunday, but I wanted to upload a stitchery I made these last weeks. I wanted to try some new materials -gardening foil and acrylic pearlscent inks- and I used hand and machine stitching.
One more thing! I managed not to put some faces on this one!! :-)

7 comments:

  1. Wowie! This is wonderful. Just up my street.

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  2. i agree - great texture and spirals :D

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  3. This has great colors and wonderful textures. When you do a piece like this, do you machine stitch first and then add hand stitching or vice versa?

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  4. i love it! beautiful flowers, swirls, colors ... brava!

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  5. Thank you for your comments, it was real fun to do this because I didn't knew the outcome. I did machine stitch first. The light was so bad in the room, I stitched the wrong side of the painting!! Only the gray thread of the bobbin was visible and all my nice threads were on the back... So I put some fine crochet thread (which I dyed with Procion Dyes) on the bobbin and started once more. After that I put more detail with hand stitching and paint.

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  6. Lots of texture and busy-ness. Kind of a van Gogh-ish feel to this.

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  7. Gosh, this is absolutely beautiful (your Aug 21 post) - it's been wonderful reading your blog!

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