Daisychains ABC Crewel Sampler

Daisychains ABC Crewel Work Pattern Sampler by Alicia Paulson

Patten has been transferred and stitching has begun. 

I've never used crewel wools before.  They're very different from my usual smooth embroidery cotton....

Daisychains ABC Crewel Sampler

I have just seen my last post on a different monitor and it seems the brown one is a better match...

I think I need a second (real life) opinion.... and I'll just pick the one that looks good - whether it matches the original or not!

Daisychains ABC Crewel Sampler

I've decided the fabric I had for this sampler was too gold.  I'm now torn between two other fabrics... one a more definite brown, the other more yellow...

gold

brown

yellow

  I think the yellow one matches the original colour best....

Daisychains ABC Crewel Work Pattern Sampler by Alicia Paulson

Now I need to transfer the design...

Daisychains ABC Crewel Sampler

Materials have arrived for this project!

bit concerned the fabric isn't mustard enough...

Daisychains ABC Crewel Sampler

Daisychains ABC Crewel Work Pattern Sampler by Alicia Paulson

Found via Feeling Stitchy, and created by Alicia Paulson of Posie Rosy Little Things.

The pattern is available for sale in the shop.

Isn't it AMAZING!

It's my newest project... just ordered the crewel wools and fabric... it will measure 23cm x 32cm

Lantern

For St Monans Art Festival.

Still in progress and crumpled.

Lantern

For St Monans Art Festival.

Still in progress and crumpled.

Lantern

For St Monans Art Festival.

In progress and crumpled

Sewing on Leaves - update

Original post here in Oct 2009, it did look like this...

 and it now looks like this:-

I've stored it a folder, unpressed and unpreserved.  The colours have faded and some of the leaves have cracked as they have dried, but its still lovely to look at.

backside of cross stitched colour

Whilst attaching some loose pages into my sketchbook I came across this cross stitch sample.

I did it ages ago by blending single strands of red, blue and yellow threads.  The front can be seen in this post

However the backside (as usual) looks so much better!

Buildings

These are from the hand stitched tablecloth mentioned here.

 

I love the back sides!

  

 

Makes me want to stitch more buildings...

snow post sampler

another version of a work in progress inspired by this

shoe prints

some more stitching on my shoe print fabric

shoe prints

some stitching on my foot shoe print fabric.

footprints - although I should really call them shoe prints....

my shoes and black paint on fabric, inspired by this and this.

footprints - printing

inspired by my shoe prints in the snow I made some prints using a shoe and black paint.

I did try to do mono printing using a (small) sheet of glass and some black paint, but the paint was too runny and the bumps on the shoes too rounded.  My brayer also left marks on the glass too.  I was most successful using paper rather than fabric but overall I'm quite pleased.  Especially as the whole experiment took 15 minutes from start to clear up!

For the last one I used a rubber to draw circles on the glass before printing.

snow post sampler

a work in progress inspired by this

2 previous samplers cut and pasted together...

snow post sampler

another version of a work in progress inspired by this

snow post sampler

a work in progress inspired by this

inspirations in nature - part 17