Beginning

Starting on a new piece.
Mono print on cotton
Machine embroidery
Cut work
Deconstructed vintage embroidery
Smocking
Paper piecing

The Blue Party Dress

The Blue Party Dress
8 x 8.5

Machine and hand embroidery,
including
chain stitch, back stitch, seed stitch,
bullion knots, web stitch, satin stitch, and beads

Stitched Collage

8 x 10
Digital copy of original art,
torn, folded and stitched.

Who Is So Late At the Garden Gate

 

Who Is So Late At The Garden Gate
12.5 x 10.5

Silk and cotton, vintage embroidery, silk paper, hand embroidery,
 scrim lace, patchwork, cutwork, machine embroidery

Another Page

 

14.5 x 11.5

silk paper
cotton fabric
vintage embroidery
ruched fabric with beads
scrim lace
hand and machine embroidery
watercolor paper

Scribble Lace

 

Free Motion Machine Stitched Lace
First attempt
Made for Karen Ruane's Extended Embroidery Class

Doesn't  this photo look like something out of an old embroidery book?

Accepted in 2011

These two pieces were accepted into the San Antonio Fiber Artists exhibition.
The one on the left is Butterfly Totem, a machine embroidery
The one on the right is Fruit of the Vine (shown here unfinished) a hand embroidered mono print.

Stitching On Saturday--a detail

I wonder where this is going. It is already very different from where it began.

Cell Blocks

At long last. I think I am done with Cell Blocks (7 x 17), but I am not really sure. I had some problems with the machine thread . The machine kept making long floats on the surface and then these would get caught in the presser foot and make a big mess. I cleaned everything out, changed the needle and so on, but kept having the problem. I got tired of fighting it, so I am through for now. I will just look at it for awhile and see if I want to make changes.

The Tower Of Babel

12.5 x 5

This is a thread painting on muslin. I had a hard time getting the design transfered on this one. I kept getting it backwards and of course it matters because of the letters. I finally realized, that on my printer, if you check T-shirt transfer in the options box, it automatically reverses the image. So, if you reverse it yourself before printing, it will reverse again and you are back to where you started. Naturally, I thought all would be well and printed straight on to the transfer paper. Consequently, I have several transfers featuring backwards letters to use some day!

The Consultant

I have been getting a lot of expert help lately. Tess has definite ideas about how things should be done.

Fortress

Fortress

6.5 x 12

Machine Embroidery

Middle Earth

Middle Earth

7 X 16.5

Machine embroidery, over a pastel drawing on cotton muslin.

Stages of the process described in the pictures below.

Embroidery 1

Drawing 2

Drawing 1

Can Can

7 x 8.5

Machine embroidery on monoprinted fabric. I embroidered some shapes in and then took them back out by sewing over with another color. Substraction again. Did it work? I am not sure. Will have to look at it for a while.

Dart

Dart

6 x 9

A machine embroidery on monoprinted fabric with heat transfer overlays and hand embroidery.

Untitled

Untitled

6.75 X 11.5

Machine embroidery on hand dyed fabric.