Cat on a Stool Applique

I was originally going to do a cat on a mat but decided to put him on a stool on a mat instead. Various fabrics, painted doily, stamped and painted cat, machine embroidery

Hare Applique and Scotland

Painted fabric, stamped and painted hare, machine stitching [fun foam stamp cut on the Zing]

I've been to Scotland for a few days, this is Loch Lomond

Frog Applique

I used one of my handmade stamps for the frog, on fabric then painted over as well. I left the green patterned fabric crumpled for a more textured affect. Freehand machine stitched.

Pig Applique

I painted the background canvas fabric with acrylic paints. The pig is one of my Zing stamps that I made - I printed with it onto fabric. The 'fences' are also painted canvas. The pig and fences were machine stitched to the background.

Leather Rabbit Family

Another picture I recently finished. I painted the background on canvas fabric then embellished with machine embroidery. The rabbits were made from faux leather with black patches also in faux leather which were appliqued onto the fabric. The eyes were drawn on with pens. The fabric was wrapped around a canvas frame.

Crazy Patchwork Pouches

A couple of little pouches made from scraps of fabric and decorated with machine embroidery. They are not the best made items but it was just a bit of an experiment really.

Woven Fabrics

Woven fabrics and stitched with a decorative machine stitch.

The fabrics were two pieces that I had painted and stamped and were quite stiff because I'd used acrylics. It was quite tricky keeping the pieces together before stitching, I found it too hard to put pins in. Inspiration from the book by Anna Faustino - Simply Stunning Woven Quilts.

This is the back, I like it as much as the front. I need to work out what to do with it so both sides can be seen, it would be a shame to hide the back.

The Colour Purple [Pages 17 - 19]

Page 17 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, decorative machine stitching,stitched edges.

Painted, stamped recycled wipe with hand embroidery, dyed lace with decorative machine stitching.

Punched stamps, wooden ring with bead.

 Folded card tag opens to show paint effect book page, 2 art buttons [Russian dolls], recycled card circle attached with embroidery.

Page 18 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Row of beads, earring part, printed ATC [my design], 2 art buttons, row of sequins on fabric.

Handmade button [shrink plastic], ribbon, beads, card discs decorated with purchased papers, gems.

Page 19 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, decorative machine embroidery, stitched edges.

Ribbon, running stitches, dyed laces, recycled jewellery.

Square of textured art mounted on velvet fabric with embroidery, lace flower, paper flower [purchased], recycled butterfly from greetings card.

WIP Flower Embroidery

I wasn't sure whether to include this in Take a stitch Tuesday or Work in progress Wednesday, either can be found on the pintangle site. It is work in progress but also includes some TAST embroidery stitches and this week is a catch up week on TAST. [we can create an interesting visual piece using 3-6 of the stitches already used]. The yellow stitches on the top right have been shown last week but the other yellow ones are new, a variation of sheaf stitch which we did last week. The purple are lazy daisy, the orange are French knots and ?, the blue are fly stitches.

The purple are fern stitch

and the orange ?- like two fly stitches joined together

All parts of a bigger piece which I will reveal at a later date.

TAST 13

 Take a Stitch Tuesday - this week is a catch up week for those who are behind. Sharon set this challenge for those who are not -

Mini challenge 1

Take 3 -6 of the stitches we have have done so far and create an interesting visual piece that will encourage  new hands or busy hands to learn and to "catch up". In other words create some eye candy for those who are falling behind, either because of busy lives or because they are new hands. 

Mini challenge 2

Share a tip on how you manage your stitching time. How do you juggle family, work and stitching? Are you organised about your time and workspace? Do you plan and schedule in your stitching time into a busy day? That is a topic people love! Either blog about it or leave a forum post on stitching fingers.

 I decided on challenge 1 but I ended up incorporating all of the stitches we have done so far.

It will become part of the fabric journal with the other samples.

The stitches are fly stitch, buttonhole stitch [around the edges of the pages], feather stitch, cretan stitch, herringbone stitch, chevron stitch, detached chain stitch, couching, running stitch, whipped wheel, alternating barred chain [I used this to couch down a ribbon, then added the running stitch later].

The sample includes various types of fabric, printed lace, ribbons, beads, sequins, butterfly charms [these were actually part a candle holder which I recycled], machine embroidery.

Intention [IF] and Red Collage

Illustration Friday - Intention

It was my intention to make a strange creature and so I have.

Watercolours and collage [the bird head and hog body were found images]

Below - collage of painted papers, found papers, printed and painted papers, then freehand machine stitched

Fish, Birds and Porthole

View from a porthole [cut out]

below is the full view

simple bird sketch

painted fabric and stitching

orange fish shapes cut from found picture of another sea creature

Boats

Three brush pen drawings, one collage and brush pens and one painted fabric with machine stitching, distressed and on a stamped, painted background.

Machine Embroidery Book[3], Boats and Mermaids

More pages from the C&G machine embroidery book.

Mermaid doodles from an old sketchbook

I started a sketchbook earlier this year all to do with a theme of boats, these are the first pages. The sea was created using a handmade stamp.