Saturday, October 16, 2010

Insects Interwoven

The beetles are finished and will hang from a branch we found on a walk in the woods. I stitched on them a few days last weekend at the park with the boys - sitting in the sun. Every few minutes a ladybug beetle would land in my hair.


10 comments:

  1. FABULOUS!What a beautiful piece of work! I love each one of these bugs, but I have to say I think the red one with the megamundung cloth as spots is my favorite, it works so well with the neautral backgrounds that you've chosen. What a great project :)

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  2. They seem to be moving up, like bugs do. Love the ripples from the quilting!

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  3. What a glorious piece, so full of quiet little stitches perfectly placed.

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  4. This is so beautiful. I love the bugs but the rippling stitches are just gorgeous. I love how carefully you have chosen the contrasting cloth on the beetles' wings, something very Japanese about them,

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  5. susan ~
    ahhhhhhh.
    elegant.

    funny, how when something catches
    us by our heart, we give our all
    to it.
    and do i know the love that all
    those kantha stitches mean.

    i am so happy for you.
    xoxo g

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  6. came back to look again and re
    read the comments and Eva is
    right about the movement and i
    wondered and looked...
    maybe it's the stitching that
    goes off, onto the light ground
    cloth? whatever it is, it's
    there, and interesting, because
    the beetles are relatively in
    place..........

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  7. Very imaginative and soulful - yet so playful too.

    The hand stitching grounds it for me, and gives it power.

    Really lovely.

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  8. Really wonderful. The intricate shapes on the heads make this so much more. Love the delicate floral wings on the green one. Do you have a Flickr account?

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