Only found out yesterday when Sarah Homfray mentioned it.
I decided to make a piece slow stitch art.
I chose blue and green fabrics on a foundartion layer with a bit of batting/wadding.
I practiced a few stitches I have not done for a while. I moved recently and unpacking has been the priority.
I am happy with the piece and I am not sure how I will use but that is not the point.
It was a nice slow day.
K3N Cloth Tales Slow Stitching Challenge 2024
Week 38 - Nature's Textures - Free Form Embroidery - Textile Textures
I chose the polka dot fabric as my inspiration then chose colors from there. Pink bright and paler, grey light and dark and white.
There is cotton, yarn, felt, lace, cheesecloth, and gauzy material included in this piece.
Free form embroidery includes couching, French Knots, running stitch to fill in space in places, seed stitches for finer fabric, and top stitches on the felt heart.
The thread alternated from pink to grey depending on the fabric I was working on.
The prompt for week 13 of the slow stitch challenge 2024 at K3N Cloth Tales was Friendship with a nine patch square as the technique hence a Friendship Star.
I am not a traditional quilter so nine patch is something I have not done before. Then to make on a small scale and hand stitch it was another level of challenge.
I started with 2 inch squares but somewhere along the way I ended up with extra fabric I had to cut off the the center square was a bit too big. Math is not my strong point.
Friends are important.
I chose to put the print on the star and the aqua on the surrounding squares. I then added the yellow and teal strips around the square to make it work better when I put these squares into a project at the end of the year. Once the nine patch was done, I added a white cotton layer on the back and id the top stitching. Really happy with this piece.
This is piece number 10 for the slow stitch challenge with Kathryn at K3N Cloth Tales.
The prompt this week was feathers based on the poem by Emily Dickinson. Hope is the thing with Feathers.
I chose a turquoise cotton base fabric as well as my white cotton one underneath. After a bit of inspiration looking at black and white drawings of feathers, I drew my own.
I cut the pieces out from the paper then applied them to small pieces of fabric in the turquoise color family.
I wanted them offset somewhat and that turned out well.
These are such tiny pieces.
I stitched the word hope from the poem on the left bottom corner which helps to balance the composition.
I really like this one.