I started machine quilting this yesterday then today finished the rest of the machine stitching and the washed and dried it. I just needed to see how it would all turn out.
The results are encouraging. A few minor things on this one and then move on to a few things with a bit more green. Although it's fitting to be finishing this one up now - we are having a few cold and cloudy days here.
Amazing!!
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DeleteHello! Really fabulous artworks! I love the nature inspired themes and colours.
DeleteWhat a beautiful marriage of hand and machine stitching! I love how after you washed your piece the fabric wrinkles.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Julie. I am feeling encouraged with these results and the way the textures have really come to life after the washing.
Deletethis is just so !
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mo! I am so itching to keep going on much more but all sorts of things going on around here to keep me away. Soon I hope...
DeleteGolly. This is so lovely. What hand stitch did you use for the butterflies?
ReplyDeleteJust a backstitch for the line and then went back around to make the extra stitch out from the line!?! Clear as mud? No special stitch really. : )
Deleteworks so well...
ReplyDeleteI have several more constructed in a similar way that I am anxious to continue stitching on. I was concerned the machine stitching might over-power the hand stitches but I am pleased it did not. Pretty excited about it.
Deleteoh yes to wrinkles; and I really like how the stitching goes from one colour to the next in the different blocks and how there is such a sense of continuing in your pieces, like a recurring theme and calming rhythm and you immediately recognize the work as being yours
ReplyDeleteOh thank you so much, Saskia. I am so pleased you mentioned calm and that the sense of meditation in making all of the stitches - hand or machine - may have become a part of the cloth.
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