Blog 465
I am still waiting for the bias tape to arrive before I can
go any further with the Poinsettia wall hanging project but, just for the
record, here is the book and project which inspired me. And it is so important
to acknowledge where inspiration has come from. I have witnessed many occasions
when some of my own patterns or methods has been passed off as someone else’s
without any acknowledgement!
Then I wondered if I could free-cut flowers? And the answer turned
out to be … not very well! I turned round to pin them on my design wall as I
worked on more and that was when I saw the art cushion that I needed to finish.
I asked myself ‘what if…?’ and before I knew it I had finished the cushion
front. I had intended to silhouette some grasses or cow parsley over the top
but shaded flowers worked much better. This was a just-by-chance solution to an
unresolved problem! Here is the sequence.
Free-cut flowers
What if?
Perhaps
Overlaid design
Completed front
And finally, someone was explaining recently how she had been
on a workshop to learn how to use a darning stitch to create a landscape. I was
quite intrigued by this and came straight home to try one small enough to make one
of my luggage labels. Here it is in progress. It’s not at all easy but small
enough to handle and take with me when I go places to sew. I will complete the
background and then silhouette a tree in the foreground to cover all the
mistakes! I won’t be doing another one!
Darning a scene
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