Happy St George’s Day

Appliqué embroidery of water dragon

I thought it would be a good time to share my appliqué dragon.

The finished Landscape

All the flowers are done. I really enjoyed this piece. It will be mounted ready for framing at some point.

Landscape phase 7 : first flowers 🌺

Tiny poppies have been added to the corn field along with foxgloves & ragged robin.

Daisies & more poppies to follow. Better keep sewing 🪡

Landscape phase 5: embroidery trees

This week I’ve finished the main trees ( 🤞hopefully) & made a start on the houses. I have a little more to add to the tree line & start on the grass, there is loads & loads of grass.

Landscape phase 4

All the fabrics have been applied & I’ve tightened my embroidery frame. The creative embroidery fun part can begin.

Landscape phase 3: trees

The trees are finally starting to take shape, one more tree trunk to go! The tree trunks are made from a old gift bag handle I found while tidying up.

My embroidery journey

To celebrate world embroidery day I thought I would share my embroidery journey with the RSN ( Royal school of needlework).

Jacobean crewel work

I kicked off the journey with Jacobean, the biggest challenge was using 2 colour families & a contrast colour. I enjoyed the different stitches.

Canvas work

My second piece getting to grips with canvas stitches, I enjoyed working the sky, I had to get permission to use tiny beads to represent stars. The subject was a nod to my astronomy/physics background.

Basic gold work

Then on to gold, my first attempt at working with gold, looking forward to designing the advanced gold work ( perhaps next year?)

Basic silk shading

I did enjoy this one, but not the holes in my fingers, from the tiny size 12 embroidery needles ( I’m struggling with this for my advanced version, still a work in progress, I started before lockdown 1😔) the cyclamen was the final piece of the certificate.

Appliqué

My favourite piece so far, so many techniques. I needed nerves of steel to cut out those wings, but it was fun.

I’m still working through the diploma, the white work is complete except for the hem, I starting to work on my silk shading (Luna) just before the first lockdown (it’s been off & on for so long)& I started Blackwork during the second lock, because I couldn’t juggle all the silks needed & Blackwork only needed a few different threads, therefore much easier to pack away, as the studio was used to teach online for school.

I’m throughly enjoying not being a school teacher & having a bit of a break, until I reclaim my health, redecorate the house & remodel the house. Finally I might even get as far as running the business I’ve been thinking about for so long.

Landscape phase 2: more sky

Still layering away with net & organza. Don’t be alarmed by the yellow it’s the base for the light coming through the trees 🌳.

Landscape phase 1: sky

The landscape appliqué is started, the back ground fabric is on. I started building the sky by layering net & organza & stab stitching it in place. The lower area of bushes (behind the trees) has also been stab stitched in place. The house remains pined on until I have finished building the sky.