Today I will be demonstrating these quick and easy flowers made from layers of organza v and machine embroidery. I am doing this at Tudor rose patchwork shop as part of their shop hop week . Four other shops are taking part and the idea is that you hop from shop to shop across the week buying different things from each shop whilst checking them out.
Six enthusiastic ladies came and spent the day learning how to use their sewing machines as a painting instrument. The aim was for each student to produce a small square with a floral motif stitched in place, the design being completely coloured in with free motion stitches worked in small movements to creat a coloured surface on top of which they machined any details . All ladies did really well but as expected some machines had their moments and caused the usual frustrations that can be associated with free motion embroidery. Below are a selection of lovely little 2″ by 2″ tiles created on the day.
Spent a lovely evening with the ladies of Shrewsbury E G sharing my second best passion for stitching on plastic. ( which makes a change from my first passion of soldering organza). I took along my coats and jackets made from layered and stamped images and also many of my studio samples and finished pictures. Everyone appeared very interested after the talk and after a beautiful drive home to Jens who hosted me in her beautiful rural home a well attended next day workshop was held. The ladies were excellent and all produced a sample while hopefully their heads were filling up with innovative ideas to follow up on when that got home. Many of their samples were very nickable little gems of which I could of just brought home and kept and I hope the ladies now see the potential for this unusual but quite satisfying weird media that I love to use. Good day, great ladies, wonderful hospertality.
Oh I’ve had such fun. I didn’t think I would love playing around with Daz, making bits and bobs to collage together.
SSMixed media piece for a workshop in September. I did have fun with this. It’s great to do something that uses all those bits and bobs ip that we all keep collecting.
Meet Sunflower. She is my latest creative session where I went down to my studio for a couple of hours and re emerged with a fabric plant doll that I think looks great and doesn’t need to be watered. So I can’t kill it.
Morning
I have finally felt well enough to get down to it and finish the last panel for my New Zealand trip. I wasn’t at all sure about the colour combination I had chosen to layer up and stitch but now it’s all finished I am very pleased with it and think the colours work well . I particularly love my hovering humming birds in between the flowers and leaves
It was great to work with the LOVLEY ladies up in Yorkshire. Below are several pieces finished on the day
