Acrylic painted cotton and silk, heat distressed organza, machine wrapped braid edging, beads, hand embroidery, free motion machine embroidery, stitching over a gap with watersoluble stabilizer and just a touch of shading using Neocolour II Watersoluble crayons. Another example of my designing without a net! Everything was cut freehand............
Mainly machine stitching, with machine over hand seed stitches in the sky)
I do love the ruffly texture in these flowers. I'm glad that I had just the right colour of organza in my stash.
I call it "Blue Mood" for obvious reasons!! Do you think that it was worth all the angst?
12 comments:
definately worth all the angst, it's a blue marvel.
Thanks, Kaite!! I was certainly in a blue funk when I was making it!
It's gorgeous, I would guess it is well worth the effort. I love the ethereal quality of it.
Really, really lovely. Could not have picked a better color.
Looks great!!! Makes me think of rough seas.... I'm not sure I would have stuck with it tho.
Oh, yes, gorgeous stitching and textures! Blue is turning up in my work more and more since moving out here. In fact this summer I'm going to try an indigo vat.
Beautiful the colour of summer
Thanks, everyone! Blue is my favourite colour and I sometimes have to stop myself from using it all the time. Truth be told, it's a safe colour for me and often the one I retreat into when I'm searching for inspiration.
Penny, can I come over to your place and play with the indigo too? I know, I know, you live too far away, but one day, I'll take a drive to the east coast!!! But it would need to be in lobster season!!!!
its absolutely stunning!
Analisa in Dubai
Maybe because I live on an island (Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti) and am never far from the ocean...my first thought was water!
As I view the whole image, the sky looks like rain pouring down. The rest of the surface design looks like churning seas in the midst of a storm. But the flowers remind me that something beautiful comes out of those storms....
All of that probably isn't in the least bit connected with what you were envisioning when you created it ~ha! But it's what I *see*
Forgot to say "I love what I see, also"
Now I have the song "Blue, blue, my world is blue..." running through my head...thanks! I love blue too, so I think this was definitely worth all the angst.
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