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Collage / mixed media on paper. Booklet measures 15x15 cm.
Blogged:
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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/
These are really samples of borders. Instead of using the borders for parts of other cross stitch, I stitched the whole page! There are three pages of this book I did. Ten years old now.
I am a sucker for samplers alpha or borders or anything sample like. I also like shadow cross stitch.
For Week 1, we did a sampler of a scene from nature (lots of pesticides in OUR water, eh?) using a variety of stitches. I used tapestry wool on black felt, attached afterwards to foamcore to keep the shape, lettering is cotton floss. The frog is perle cotton 3. Of course I used waste canvas to do the lettering! (People sometimes give me too much credit.) The couched "log" is handspun yarn cast-on to a plastic drinking straw. Stitches for the sampler: backstitch, straight stitch/seed stitch, running stitch, chain stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch, star stitch, French knots, fly stitch, couching, and the frog is made of bullion knots.
This is a sampler of various different ways to sew people up. Also one of the coolest art projects I've ever seen.
I made this project: Seasonal Sampler for Hero Arts Blog: Everything Autumn! Harvest, Halloween and Thanksgiving.
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Action sampler with Qiagen logo, A 35mm camera with four lenses designed to take four sequential photos.
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'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. :)
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.
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.