Fiberactions

Here is my first try at the Triad color scheme I picked. I wanted to use my new Big Shot cutting machine but liked the negative shapes almost better than the ovals it cut, so I used all of them. The scheme is blue-violet, yellow-green, and red-orange. I know computers don't always do true color. The shapes are hand dyed, the background commercial. All are cotton. The stitching is in perle cotton.

Take a Stitch Tuesday

 Pistil Stitch is the one Sharon of http://pintangle.com chose this week. I found two samples on my flower sampler. The yellow in the top center with the orange French Knot center is done with Perle Cotton. The center bottom is one in red embroidery floss.

Here it's used to hold shisha mirrors in place on the front of a vest.

Bead Journal Project

Here is the September cuff for the Bead Journal Project. I used a thick and thin yarn to felt then added the round disks. The seed beads came last. It's hard to believe we are three quarters through the year.

Class

Here's my final project from the www.joggles.com class called Flower Power that Janet Clark taught. The motif is from her earlier class on water soluble work.

The fabric is silk velvet that I painted. The handles were ones that I had forever, so it was nice to find the right place for them. It was a good class.

Quilt

This is a present to our son's Mother-in-law. She sends me treasures from her antiquing, thrift store, and garage sale hunts. She is an expert. The crochet motifs are from her, and the colors are more in her palette than mine. It is of the family we share but is several years old. It's one of my favorite photos.

Class

The next piece from Susan Sorrell's class at www.joggles.com is based on a river delta. The fabric is one I painted. I put experiments in a drawer and go through it when I need backgrounds for things. There always seems to be something that works, although this one was stiff and a bit hard to stitch through by hand.

The threads are Perle cotton and embroidery floss. The stitches are straight stitch, running stitch, chain stitch and Frence knots.

Thanks to everyone who comments. I wish I could get back to all of you, but the garden is producing and taking my time.

Take a Stitch Tuesday

This week's challenge from http://pintangle.com is the Sheaf Stitch.

The top is a perle type thread. Next is a variegated sock yarn.  The violet is a ribbon thread. Then I combined it with the perle, but the perle overwhelmed it. The last is the stitch done irregularly.

 I'm getting quite a number of samplers and noticed that they have added up over the years. They are fun to look back on to see what I was doing.