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Here are a few sneak peeks of a vintage lace sampler I have just finishedt. I am not showing it in its entirety as I am submitting it for publication in the next Sew Somerset magazine and don't want to give too much away yet. (Lots of 20 minute sessions!)
Blogged at:- vintagebunty.blogspot.com/
Handwritten calligraphy
The text was spontaneously handwritten during a live demo for attendees at ArtPlosure, an annual arts & crafts festival in Raleigh NC using various broad edged pens, pointed pens, reeds, and brushes.
I LOVE marks, strokes, doodles, letters, the alphabet, punctuation, words, lower case, upper case, phrases, pens, inks, and whatever other possible thingamajigs and whatchamacallits may be involved. They dwell in my heart and feed my soul.
I stitched this from a pattern from Birds of a Feather (I love their stuff). My digital camera is on the blink, so I had to use my iPhone to take the pic. Looks better in person, I think.
Background cloth is recycled cotton bedsheet subjected to various surface treatments including rusting, molding, dyeing and rubbings. These are the same dyes and threads used in my earlier TAST 2012 samplers which were worked on Aida cloth.
I've been finding myself very drawn to samplers lately - I'm not sure why, but I guess I love the idea of girls and women creating some sort of record and example of their needlework. I love the look and feel of old samplers - the general composition of them - but not the old graphics they used. I thought it would be fun to do a Sublime Stitching Sampler, so I dug through all my Sublime Stitching transfers (in the book and a few transfer packs) and put this together. I'm not 100% satisfied with the final stamping (I rushed and got a few bits crooked) but I think it's going to be fun to work on for a while. I'm taking pictures of finished bits as I go along. Eventually, it will be framed and hung in my office/craft space. :)
for size comparison, against my fruit canes. gotta make more whole fruits though, ran out making these samplers.
A small sampler to try out some new textures in a ‘star and cross’ pattern I recently came across in a book, ‘Islamic Art in Detail’ (a publication from The British Museum Press, ed. Sheila R. Canby, 2005, pp74-77). Some of the textures are more successful than others but then that’s why this is termed a ‘sampler’ and not a finished zentangle.
Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens in a 9x14cm Moleskine sketchbook.
Beer sampler from Pecan Street Brewing, clockwise from the lower left:
Screw Loose Blone, Ten-Peny Nail Ale, County Jail Pale Ale, Jackalope Brown Ale, Chain Gang Oatmeal Stout and 1897 Jailbreak IPA.
We ordered the citrusy 1897 Jailbreak IPA but I also like the Scottist AleTen-Penny Nail Ale and the citrusy County Jail Pale Ale.
Johnson City,
Texas
Come stitch with me! Sampler #2 of my Year of Samplers will be a full stitchalong, so come by and join me! Blogged here.
The pistil stitch marks Week 37 of the TAST challenge and is simply a french knot with a tail and is easy peasy to do. :)
Sinds 1990 verwerk ik mijn proeven, restanten, schetsen, ideeen in Samplers van 1 x 1 m. Als een persoonlijk archief, niet te koop.
Vandaag mijn 20e Sampler samengesteld, paardenhaar, perkament, zeemleer, egelpennen...
So far... ; )
I still have some spaces I need to fill, but over all, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt!
I think, next time, I will work with something a bit smaller... lol!
Just before I threw away the broken Oktomat and Action Sampler. They're not built to last; they're toys, after all. August 2008
I took an embroidery class a couple weeks ago at the Stitch Lab. Rachel of Average Jane Crafter taught the class. I took the class to fine tune my skills and battle the stem stitch. I had a blast and caught a glimpse of the super secret tea towel for Jenny Hart. That was almost as fun as taking the class. :) eeeek!
I really appreciated the class. This is what we made in class. I couldnt wait to take it home to frame it. I bought these cool shadow box style frames from Ikea. I decided to kinda scrapbook it. I did my first rub on on the glass with an Amy Butler trim rub on transfer. I love how it turned out. I even did the back and added a lil journaling too. Check it out in the next pic