I’m taking Susan Sorrell’s Fertile Earth course at Joggles. We were supposed to use a vegetable or fruit for a design source for the first lesson's embroidery. Naturally, I chose a completely out of season subject – ornamental gourds. I found a quick reference photo I had taken last fall of some gourds purchased for Halloween decorating. I was attracted to the shapes and textures. Here’s my work-in-progress. I used a background I created last year on the embellisher because I thought the pattern echoed the texture of the gourds. I still have lots of stitching to do – and I’ll be adding leaves and tendrils - and, most likely, beads...
7 comments:
Looking forward to seeing the progress on this!
this is really really cool. And I love the your process of creating a felted background. I have a little hand embellisher and I'm only just starting to fool around with it. I love the idea of including paper towels too.
Jane (from the fertile earth class)
I love what you are doing with this. Great texture with the stitches. Look forward to seeing more.
This is beautiful! I like the colors and the texture of the background.
I love the gourds! The combination of the soft background created by the embellisher with the bold stitching is fantastic. And the colors are great!
Thanks, everyone, for your kind encouragement!
I like the way this is going and an looking forward to it's progress,
I have just started working on a piece of felt (wet felted) I made a few years ago, it is interesting how we remember and go back to work,
I like your drawing in the next post too,
best thoughts Frances
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