This is a rather overdue post but I am sure you can forgive me, a lot has gone on this week and I have been feeling somewhat shattered. However, I now have a chance of a break and well catch up on the missing energy. So, without further ado, allow me to walk you through where I have got with my latest project.
At this point I had applied all the felt layers, and cut out a section of the Liberty Tana Lawn I am using as the accent to the piece, it's also acting as my colour palette. I cut it out after having first applied a layer of vilene on the back to help support it. I should also add, this is the second version as the previous shape I hadn't allowed enough to shape over the padding.
Here I am just doing tiny stab stitches around the shape.
With that part of the body done, I move to head. Now to keep in with the layering affect I worked it separately. Annoyingly photographing this part of the project was infuriating the fabric really didn't like to be photographed.
I applied very carefully to the back of purple silk dupion a layer of bondaweb, this then helped me to then cut out the shape of the birds head. Then this layer was applied to a very lightweight black cotton. You can see in the above image that I stabbed stitched the layers together around the edges before starting to do long and short, natural shading at the bottom to get a feathery effect. I used for that several colours of cotton stranded and highlighted it with sparing stitches of silver thread. You can see that in the picture below, you will also spot...sort of, that I have begun to bead the bottom of the birds head, and have also applied a crystal for the eye. Nothing like sparkle!
Once the head was complete, all the details finished, stitching, beading and so forth. I cut it out out from the fabric. In this shot I am just checking out the placement, I won't be stitching yet as I need to stitch the beak. Which is my current job! Pictures will follow on that part.
So, there we go, what projects are you working on at the moment?
Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to see you and your work on embroidery just like I used to. Thank you so much for sharing your incredible talent!
I'm currently catching up with everything I left behind a year ago or so. There is much to do, but to keep myself from becoming overwhelmed I started with tiny houses.
Cheers!
Hello Eva, good to see you again, and yes I know what you mean. I was going through a funny couple of years and now I am back feeling settled on what I enjoy making. This project along with the collaboration pieces have really set me back on my path.
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