Showing posts with label embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embroidery. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 July 2014

working on embroidery designs. - cow parsley.



To simplify the complexity of the flowers I printed out a photograph and drew in the main shapes, and highlighted particular flower heads that were prominent.


I then drew this out on paper to get a feel for the shape of the design, and also practised drawing the individual flower shapes a few times.


Then without marking the fabric it's over to the sewing machine, set up for free motion and draw with the needle.


Creating a frothy cloud of stitch.



I then repeated the steps to create some of the foliage. So delicate and pretty!

Both of these designs should be available for purchase on folksy soon. I'll let you know when.

Friday, 30 May 2014

embroidery designs in progress

 In preparation for this years Alnmouth Arts Festival I'm trying out some new designs


allium


cow parsley foliage


feather


more feathers


cow parsley photograph



rough sketch of placement


cow parsley embroidery.

it's always fun trying out new things, you never know what will work in stitch and what won't!