Thursday, 30 January 2025

Embroidered scroll

 





Keeping busy on cold winter evenings.  I think I must have started this embroidery about the end of November/beginning of December.  I'm not sure whether it will remain as a scroll or I could display it as a wall hanging.  I have used a length of cotton sheeting, backed with batting.  Initially I included some appliquéd flowers from an old linen tablecloth and tried to completely fill in the background with various stitches. However, I didn't achieve the result I was hoping for, so changed to mainly using seed stitch between the motifs. There was no overall design plan, once I finish stitching one flower or plant, I search my sketchbooks for the next.

The fabric is 4" wide and so far I have completed 30" of the length, with another 12" to go.


Friday, 10 January 2025

Pocket fold book




 

A single sheet, fold book with 4 pockets, acrylic paint and 
lino print, with paper flower decoration.  Folded 
size approx 4" x 5.5" (from A3 sheet of paper)