Embroidery and Lace Pictures

I used little 6"x 4" canvases for these little pictures, collaged pages from a gardening book and used Liquitex Inks to colour.

I revisited Pintangle [Take a Stitch Tuesday] to remind myself how to to do some of the embroidery stitches I have done in the past. Sharon is showing how to do embroidery stitches again if you wish to join in.

Above - Raised herringbone band, running stitch.

Slipped detached chain stitch, cross stitch.

Fancy hem stitch, running stitch.

Up and down feather stitch, running stitch.

I shall include these on Simply Neutrals Tuesday, do pop along to see more.

Tast 134

Take a stitch Tuesday - Fern stitch.

Follow along at Pintangle

There are quite a few Tast stitches in my new handmade book, you can see all the pages of Fat Book here.

Fat Book Pages - 9

Velvet background fabric, dyed lace, handmade paper

Velvet background fabric, dyed lace, handmade paper, clay embelishment, embroidered brooch, stitching.

Fine cord background, layers of sheer, net and metallic fabrics, embroidery and beads.

Take a stitch Tuesday 106, 107 - looped cretan stitch, beaded looped cretan stitch

Transfer printed fabric [ie paints and pencils used on paper and transferred to fabric by ironing], dyed laces, machine embroidery.

Transfer printed fabric [ie paints and pencils used on paper and transferred to fabric by ironing], dyed laces, hand embroidery and beads.

Fine cord background, layers of sheer, net and metallic fabrics, embroidery, sequins and beads.

Take a stitch Tuesday 109 - rice stitch

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Painted/stamped background fabric, black plastic skeleton, patchwork skirt with machine embroidery, ribbon.

Painted/stamped background fabric, organza scraps, plastic creepy crawlies under net, stitching.

This is the last page of the Fat Book.

Fat Book Pages - 3

 Layers of sheer fabrics ad dyed lace, embroidery, hand made paper, beads on a corduroy background.

Hand printed fabric, embroidery and beads on aida ribbon.

Leaf prints on fabric, sheer fabric layers [distressed], embroidery and beads.

Printed background fabric, stumpwork faces.

Layered fabric, handmade paper, embroidery.

Most of the stitches I used on these pages I did following the Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge at Pintangle.

Fat Book Pages

The first pages inside the fat book. If you've been following my blog you may have seen some of the items on these pages, for instance on the left page above is one of the tast challenges [133] and a piece of clay work on the right. Both background pages have been hand painted/printed, have organza layers and painted lace.

The next two pages are also hand printed/painted. More clay on the left under plastic netting and on top of organza and hand made paper. On the right is another Tast challenge [129].

TAST 133

Take a stitch Tuesday - Triple chain stitch

Stitched on aida - does it look different to normal aida? It has two layers of coloured organza and a layer of net on top of the aida but below the stitching. Painted lace, more organza underneath on top of hand painted fabric.

And some personal news - my son and his girlfriend came back from a trip to New York engaged. It's taken him a while to propose, I think it is eleven years they've been going out together. The strange thing is, when I put my hand in the bag of potatoes to make dinner I came out with a heart shaped potato. How weird is that?

TAST 132

Sharon at Take a stitch Tuesday calls this Kiko's Flower stitch which is made up of buttonhole wheel stitch and a bullion knot. I've made them into flowers and in the centre there are French knots or beads. Read more about the stitch at Pintangle.  

Beaded Lock Stitch

Take a stitch Tuesday [TAST 131]

Three variations of beaded lock stitch. Stitched on an aida band with cotton pearl threads.

I think I should have straightened the beads out a bit on the left hand row before taking the photo, they're supposed to be opposite each other.

Join in the challenge at Pintangle or see more embroidery.

Variations of Lock Stitch

Take a stitch Tuesday [TAST] 129 - Lock stitch and 130 -  Double lock stitch.

Lock stitch is made up of a row of vertical stitches which are then laced. I alternated the size of the vertical stitches on the top row, two tall, two short for variation.

The fabric was a small roll I picked up at the pound shop, sold for crafts and card making.

TAST 128

Take a stitch Tuesday - Interlaced Up and Down Buttonhole stitch.

It's an easy stitch to do, however I forgot to do the interlacing on the top row apart from the first stitch so I've stitched on beads where the interlacing should have been.

The bottom row I did almost correctly and included beads just for decoration.

WIP Doll and Painted Fabric

WIP - Doll. I used stitching to make shapes on her face such as her nose although it came out a little lopsided. I then painted her face with inktense pencils and aquamarkers. The red thing surrounding her is not a hoody, it was a pocket on my sewing machine cover which I used to keep her upright.

I found an old piece of painted fabric which I started to embellish.

One of the stitches I used was TAST 110, rope stitch.

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Tast 126, 127 and Handmade Stamps

Take a stitch Tuesday 

Tast 126 - Alternating up and down buttonhole stitch

Tast 127 - Beaded alternating up and down buttonhole stitch

Stitched on handmade paper which is orange do you believe? I took the photo in a different room to the one I normally use but it is the same paper as I used for the last Tast stitches I've shown.

Handmade stamps from junk.

I used a used nail buffer like the one on the left and some corrugated card as shown to make a stamp. I just used double sided sticky tape to cover all the sides with the card, then painted them with acrylic paint which was quite messy as I painted all the sides while the paint was still wet.

The grooves face a different way on each side.

It looks a lot better once I painted over it with inks.

For the second stamp I used an old key which I glued to an old thread reel.

TAST 122, 123 , 125

Take a stitch Tuesday

122 - chained bar used as couching on a strip of tweed.

123 - woven chained bar also running stitch - at the time of doing them I didn't think I was doing them very well so I only did two....but they don't look too bad.

124 - beaded herringbone over ribbon - I found a bit tricky to start with, would probably be easier on an evenweave fabric.

I've used handmade paper as a background on all three pieces.