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quilt motifs as blackwork! so in love with it.
blogged: workthatneedle.blogspot.com/2011/08/color-fades-for-win.html
Another update on my inner solar system blackwork. Finished all the orbits, onto the outer rays. Then done!
Happy to post this finished product. love love love it.
blogged: workthatneedle.blogspot.com/2011/08/finishing-up.html
Blog post: colorize.daisyw.net/2014/05/13/finally-quilting/
Started working on this again recently. The original layout I'd planned isn't possible (when I measured, I didn't take into account that the fabric is cut a little off grain, and it won't all fit with enough room left around the edges) but I've regrouped and started working at it again. This third section might be the last one, but I might do some going in the opposite direction above these ones.
In the Snare! episode of You Look Nice Today, this discussion took place:
"Yoga is a myth."
"You mean a myth like the clitoris or a myth like Sisyphus?"
"Both. It's Greek and it doesn't exist."
"It's a Clitorisyphus."
Jack, you are so lucky this shirt is way too big for me.
So, a Dürer-esque portrait, to show how the shirt has come along. Have redone the insertion stitch seams, and done most of the shirt's outlining. All that's left is to finish the outlining and work the interlace on the insertion stitch seams.
An attempt at creating depth and shadow using blackwork.
The challenge I set myself was to use just one repeated pattern filling the entire design, but with different thickness of thread to convey tone.
I'm not entirely satisfied that there's enough definition in this, but if you stand back a little way the skull seems clearer. For my first go at my own pattern, I suppose it didn't turn out too bad :D
As part of an embroidery course I did, I stitched this horse and rider in coloured blackwork. I used an image from the Bayeux Tapestry as my design inspiration.
Click on image to see it bigger.
#90 Equine in 113 pictures in 2013
I love quilts that show illusions of 3D, but I am not a quilter. How could I get the same effect in my work? By using Blackwork, of course! It seemed ideal, because I could control the density of stitching by the pattern I chose for each diamond.
The left hand side depicts an "object" that is physically impossible if each of the cubes really are cubes, and the right hand side is a classic 3D illusion. Do you see a cube in a corner of 2 walls and a floor, or do you see a solid 8-cube object, but with one of the front cubes removed? The sides share 2 patches.
In progress. Lia was totally right about how spiffy this looks.
I'd actually whip-stitched the edges for transport home, then looked up hemstitching. It's much cooler than I'd imagined. And to think--Sunday I'd been afraid to cut it.
Blogged here.
Stitched in DMC colour variations thread on Zweigart antique white 28ct Jazlyn fabric with a stem stitch border, this pattern is available at www.cottonseason.etsy.com
Project Blogged @ Eglantine Stitchery, including complete materials list and close-up photos!
This is my variation - with added beads and filling stitches in metallic silver thread - on a beautiful free design by WyrdByrd designer Jeanne Dansby. The pattern is "September Snowflake", part of her Blackwork Smalls series (scroll about halfway down on the page for the pattern). I stitched this after Christmas, and am now working on turning it into an ornament for the holidays next year!
I used very dark brown floss in place of the usual black floss. I plan to stitch a subtle background pattern and to tea dye it when completed. (Look closely at the beak on the bird on the right. It needs fixing. I show it fixed in the next picture in the album._