Puffin

I painted canvas fabric with acrylic paints, then enhanced the painting with freehand machine embroidery. [the black thin lines]

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

Toad in the Grass Applique and Bugs

Painted fabrics, stamped and painted toad, own stamp. Cut and applied pieces of fabric for grass. 

I've not been blogging last week because I had my mum, sister and her grandson staying. On one of the rainy days we made bugs from egg boxes.

Toad on a Rock Applique

Painted fabrics, stamped and painted toad, printed fabric, doily, machine stitching. It looks a bit like the flower is growing out of the toads back.

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

Poppy Heads Applique

I painted canvas fabric with acrylic paints for this picture. The poppy heads were printed on top with hand made stamps and acrylic paint. The stamps were made with fun foam cut on my Zing cutting machine and stuck to strong card. The poppies were outlined with stitching and I stitched on a few strips of painted fabric for interest.

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.

Another Rabbit Applique

I used another one of my stamps for the rabbit, stamped on fabric then over painted. The fabric below the rabbit is striped but it doesn't show up on my screen. Bits of fabric doilies are used for flowers. All hand stitched.

Fox Family Applique

The foxes are another of my stamps printed on fabric

Rabbit Applique

I've started a new sketchbook, this one is for fabric work.

I used one of my recently made stamps for the rabbit, printed on fabric {I think it was lutradur}. The 'flowers' were cut from a large crochet doily.

Vintage - No Hands

I've combined a vintage image of clothes with a tablet drawing of faces

Sketchbook 48 - The Last Pages

The bottle was from a greetings card

The flowery bits were from a greetings card

The bird [body] was from a greetings card

More Pages from Sketchbook 48

The shapes were cut from a magazine, Josef Frank designs

It's a real skeleton leaf in the bottom corner

Handmade Stamps and Sketchbook Pages

Stamps - I drew them, pixel traced them into 'Make the cut' then cut them out of fun foam on my Zing cutter. I stuck them onto various bits of wood or strong card.

Then used them in my sketchbook. The beaver and panda didn't print too well so I will do them again sometime.

More Sketchbook 48 Pages

I used the top two drawings for fabric designs

Pages from Sketchbook 48

Black and White Patterns

All drawn on my tablet

Wedding Cushion

I was at the wedding of one of my nieces on Sunday. It's been 'tradition' over the last few weddings that I've attended that I've made a heart, usually a small embroidered heart although last time I decorated a wooden heart. This time I made a cushion. I cut the letters out with my Zing and used a Heat'n bond backing, then ironed in place. I used wadding so that it would have a quilted feel and embroidered around the letters and hearts with a running stitch. I put more stuffing in the hearts from a cut in the backing fabric, like trapunto quilting.