Just Playing Around…

I’m not quite sure where I’m going with this. I’m letting it sort of evolve. The fabric on the leaf is silk (recycled from an old blouse). I will be adding a flower head to the top of my Casalguidi stem – and some stitching to the background.

Jeepers Creepers!

Here is another combination of felt and trellis stitch. I lightly needle felted the eye shape, iris and pupil to the felt background; then worked several rows of trellis stitch over the top to create the dimensional eyelids.

Mon Chapeau

Well, Annie Whitsed issued a trellis stitch hat challenge and I just had to join in. This is my tribute to red hat ladies, everywhere. The brim flips up all around so I tacked it down in the front. I didn’t have any red silk ribbon, so I made a bow of narrow satin ribbon and tacked it to the back.

By the way, a few years ago, before I ever knew what blogs were, I had a few embroidery and crazy quilt sites saved to my favorites. Annie’s website was one of them. Lots of inspiration there…

Spiral Trellis Stitch

I’m on a bit of a felt kick, lately. I wanted to try the spiral trellis stitch as a flower center. I love how it stands up really well off the surface. It will come in very handy for stitching all sorts of flowers, real and imaginary.

Another Trellis Leaf

This time, I cut out the center of the felt leaf and embroidered the trellis stitch inside the open space. I'm still having trouble with uniformity of stitches, but I'm having fun, anyway...

First Try at Trellis Stitch

I cut a simple felt leaf shape in half and lightly needlefelted it to my base fabric. Then I outlined all the edges with chain stitches. The upper half was done in size 3 perle cotton; the lower half in size 5. I see possibilities with this stitch but, whew, it’s gonna take some practice…