Amidst the whirlwind that has been our summer, I have neglected to keep up with sharing the pages that I have created for my Stitched Pages swap. So here is a bit of a catch up! This is a page that I created for Mandy whose theme is Oceans.
I put it all together in this piece, my latest passions for stitching and beadwork and fabric collage. The Sand is a piece of wonderfully textured silk and the sea is fabric collage created as a sheet and then cut to fit. As Mandy lives in the UK, I included sheels that I had collected form New England beaches to adorn her page.
Here I have to take a break from the show and tell, and speak about this wonderful book by Judith Baker Montano!! This book is amazing and a must have for any and all interested in fabric collage embroidery and silk ribbon embroidery. This book is filled with glorious pictures that will inspire and delight even the casual observer!!! I adore this book and find myself going to it for inspiration again and again!!
I put it all together in this piece, my latest passions for stitching and beadwork and fabric collage. The Sand is a piece of wonderfully textured silk and the sea is fabric collage created as a sheet and then cut to fit. As Mandy lives in the UK, I included sheels that I had collected form New England beaches to adorn her page.
Here I have to take a break from the show and tell, and speak about this wonderful book by Judith Baker Montano!! This book is amazing and a must have for any and all interested in fabric collage embroidery and silk ribbon embroidery. This book is filled with glorious pictures that will inspire and delight even the casual observer!!! I adore this book and find myself going to it for inspiration again and again!!
This next page was created for Ann in Germany. Her page theme is Fairy Tales and I chose Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson as the source for my inspiration. I used one of my photos that I printed on cotton lawn and stitched it to a sunprinted background. then I inserted a tiny stamped and painted fairy in amoung the flower petals.
Finally my most recent page is for Kath in Crete. Her theme is flowers and I had no end of ideas for her page. I finally decided to use a Viola print from one of my favorite photo series. Again this is one of my own photos.
I backed the printed photo with a swath of silk paper and then a hand dyed green background. I did all of the work on this page by hand which I find myself going to again and again. My won version of slow cloth, I guess. When I create with lots of hand stitch , I feelt aht I really know the piece that I am working on and that I have truely put a part of myself into my work.
On this page I finally mastered creating Fargo Roses with silk ribbon, as well as several other rose forms from Judith Baker Montano's wonderful book. I used a bit of vintage lace and then added beads and leaf trim to fill in the flower swag.
Finally my most recent page is for Kath in Crete. Her theme is flowers and I had no end of ideas for her page. I finally decided to use a Viola print from one of my favorite photo series. Again this is one of my own photos.
I backed the printed photo with a swath of silk paper and then a hand dyed green background. I did all of the work on this page by hand which I find myself going to again and again. My won version of slow cloth, I guess. When I create with lots of hand stitch , I feelt aht I really know the piece that I am working on and that I have truely put a part of myself into my work.
On this page I finally mastered creating Fargo Roses with silk ribbon, as well as several other rose forms from Judith Baker Montano's wonderful book. I used a bit of vintage lace and then added beads and leaf trim to fill in the flower swag. We still have 6 months to go in this swap so I will be showing you more pages as I create them.
