More Fabric Swatches

All available on Spoonflower

Dotty, Spotty and Square

I got my latest fabric swatches from Spoonflower today, among them was a swatch for a design I entered into a contest last month and it came in the top ten. It was for a small scale geometric design for shoes. See the other winners here.

I did a range of fabrics using the same colours and dots and squares.

The fabrics are available to purchase at Spoonflower here

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.

Purple Profusion

Garden Overalls

The faux stitching from Monday's post has been used to make these jazzy overalls. {digitally}. The  orange part of the flower was a Marigold growing in my garden. 

WIP Flannel Patchwork

When I went to the Harrogate quilt exhibition I bought a pack of flannel squares. I stitched 9 of the squares together on the machine and have started a bit of seam embroidery decoration.

The stitches on the squares above are fern stitch and detached chain stitches.

Below is a form of laced running stitch

This one is a raised chain band done on open chain stitch instead of the usual straight stitches. I did just one row of the chain band but more could be added, looking at it now I may add more. 

It was one of the stitches [version 2 - week 81] shown in Take a stitch Tuesday. Click on the link to see more or join in.

Another of the TAST stitches, this one is week 82 and Spanish feather stitch. Plus French knots.

An old favourite, fern stitch and French knots

Another TAST, week 83, Siennese stitch. The stitches were quite spaced out so I stitched in between with a thinner thread.

And week 80, raised chain band V1, a bit untidy

I'm a bit naughty for not using a frame and this did come out a bit puckered although it is flatter now that it has had a get together with the iron.

Faux Stitching

Created on a tablet [Samsung Galaxy Note]

Butterfly Rose

A butterfly I saw on a hanging basket the other day.

And a dying rose, I've got a thing about dying roses

Dogs in Dresses

Drawn on my Samsung tablet with sketchbook pro. For their clothes I used the doodle pattern I posted the other day, seen here. I used a photo for the background altered in pixir-o-matic.

New Fabric

Spoonflower have launched a new fabric called 'performance knit'. This is a swatch sample of it printed with one of my designs. I think it looks better in real life than in the photo, the colours are very vibrant. See more details here

WIP Green Strips Embroidery

Friend Helen gave me a pack containing the background fabric, the fabric strips and beads, so I have been using it to embroider some of the TAST stitches on.

The TAST stitches include woven cross stitch, Vandyke stitch, raised chain band, woven zig zag chain stitch. Other stitches are running stitch, French knots and beading. So far. My stitching seems to get more untidy the older I get...

Click on the link to join in the challenge Take a stitch Tuesday

Dragon Blood Tree

These are most unusual trees, they are called Dragon Blood Trees and are native to the Socotra archipelago off the horn of Africa. Look them up on the web to see how they really look, I find them fascinating. I have recently come back from a holiday in Madeira and the posts you have been seeing were prepared and put in draft before I went away including this one. While I was in Madeira I saw lots of nice trees including another variety of Dragon tree [Dracaena draco/ Dragoeiro], so I thought I would hang into this post until I got home so that I could include some photos of the real trees. 

Woman with the Crowning Glory [Hair]

Created on a Samsung Galaxy Note with Photoshop Touch/Sketchbook Pro

Aardvark

Dye solution, biro, oil pastel,charcoal, book page scrap

Woven Tapes

Woven hand made washi tapes [that is artwork etc with double sided sticky tape cut into strips]

Brusho, hand made stamps for pattern, posca pens

Doodle Pattern

Girl in Gingham Tights

Another digital drawing. I've made her clothes from some of my embroideries and fabric designs.

Floral Bouquet

A digital creation on my tablet [Samsung Galaxy note 10.1], I used sketchbook pro.

Look Behind You

Altered photo, digital drawing

{Samsung Galaxy Note}

Bunny with Flowers

Altered photo, created on a samsung galaxy note