Today is day 91 of the 100 day project. The time seems to have flown past! I thought I’d share a few more of the finished pages for my project. Some of my favourites. Although I like them all. Except one, perhaps…
First up: oversize blackwork on this delightful Wiltshire shadow fabric from Liberty. The colours for the embroidery is actually inspired by another piece of Liberty quilting fabric. The two were next to each other in a random pile and I like the combination and so I used the colours for the embroidery. :-)
Isn’t this a fun, fluffy texture?! The stitch is called tufting, sometimes Victorian tufting, and it feels kinda like a fabric pompom. I love the effect. It is a bit hard to tell in the picture but it is actually worked in multiple layers with different colours. Unfortunately, it was a bit hard going, working this stitch. My right thumb wasn’t happy about it so I had to stop after one of the flowers.
This turned out exactly like I had imagined AND also so much better. A picture does NOT do this justice. There are so many glittery beads and sequins on this, it has to be seen in motion. Maybe I’ll do a separate post about it, with a wee video. The page is really heavy because of all the glass beads. Love it. :-)
A sashiko inspired page. With sort of CMY(K) colours. It is interesting to see how the thread colours interact… Stitched on the wrong side of yellow Wiltshire shadow fabric so the print is a bit more subtle.
Artist inspired page, can you guess who? It is a happy coincidence that this and the sashiko page will be next to each other in my finished project. This page is inspired by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It was so fun to pull out all my dotty and spotty fabrics to make this! :-)
Love the bead/button ROYGBIV color spiral! Have you shown this before or am I thinking of another one in the last several months with beads and/or buttons that I also liked a lot? Oh well, doesn’t matter – this has great color transitions and wonderful texture. I also really like the Victorian tufting. I guess it’s obvious I have a thing for color and texture. Nice work!
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Thank you so much, Barbara! :-)
It’s the first ‘outing’ of the beady spiral but you are right, I did post about a similar thing a few weeks ago: https://www.carinascraftblog.com/2023/04/11/colourful-slow-stitching.html
Yep, that was the one! I also really like the blackwork – I’m a fan of contemporary interpretation of traditional stitches like blackwork in colors or (or whitework with color like Trish Burr does). The stitch blackwork color combos/transitions here are great. – Barb
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Thank you! Yes, I love contemporary takes too. Thank you for mentioning the colour whitework by Trish Burr, I had missed that somehow. :-)