White embroidery

Some more pictures of work I am doing as part of Karen Ruane's Embroider, Embellish, Create class. Layers of vintage and new fabrics with added stitches and lace embellishment. This block is being damp stretched whilst I work on some more blocks to fit alongside.

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More bullion knots ...

A piece of embroidery in progress. I am working on Karen Ruane's class "Embroider, Embellish, Create" and this piece will form part of my first block. It's made from vintage fabrics mixed with some new and embroidered with lots of knots and my favourite lazy daisy stitch. More pictures to follow as I work on this project.

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More circles ...

 

More playing about with circular shapes which seem to be creeping into my work ... got some ideas to take this experiment a bit further ...

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Bullion knots

Thought I would share this photo of some more hand embroidery I have been doing - bullion knots and paper circles - based on an old embroidered button. More to come later....

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An Embroiderers Ledger part II

 

A few more photos from another part of my Embroiderers Ledger. The first shows the whole section all together then I have put in some details of the embroidered samples. This was another really fun section and I hope it shows how much I have enjoyed working on this. I now have so many ideas buzzing around that I am really excited about getting them worked up into finished pieces - I will keep you updated on my progress!!

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A Quilt for Rafferty

A new baby in the family so I just had to make a quilt for the new arrival. It's all blues and greens with appliquéd circles, prairie points and a handstitched name.

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An Embroiderers Ledger

 

 

An apology to begin with - I haven't updated my blog in a little while but I hope that some of the photos above will show you how busy I've been. I wanted to post these photos together to show you what I've been up to. Four weeks ago I started an online course with the exceedingly talented Karen Ruane - please have a look at her blog as it is inspirational, amazing, fabulous ... The course was called An Embroiderers Ledger and ran over four weeks with two postings each week from Karen with videos, PDF and bucket loads of ideas and information. I have had an amazing time and have a beautiful sketchbook now filled with lots of ideas for me to take forward and work up into embroidered pieces later on. It has been lovely to reacquaint myself with hand stitching - I have concentrated on my machine embroidery for so long that I had forgotten how much I love hand stitching and how much I have missed it. I will blog the last couple of pages as soon as I get them finished and promise to get back to my weekly postings!!

 

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