Hi and welcome 😊 I hope that you've had a good week. I'm sorry that I'm a day late - I hope you'll link up below! This week I didn't have as much time to stitch as I thought, but I did have a wonderful week thanks to my brother and his family. There will be more about that in a future post. This week I almost have a finish!
A desert landscape
I have been doing more landscape art with coiling. I'm on my third piece and it's still fun. 😀 That's unusual for this gal who gets bored so easily. I think because it's relatively simple, quick and so full of possibilities. I even have my next one planned!
This piece is based on a picture I took in 2016 in one of the National Parks we visited around Nevada. Maybe because hubby and I are from the forests and lakes of the Cambrian Shield, we find deserts fascinating.
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| Desert Landscape - almost finished |
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| The original photo of a desert landscape |
I remember taking this photo because the fine sand at the forefront was actually unusual in the parks we visited. It's amazing how different the landscapes are, even if they are all considered deserts.
This piece is tiny - it's in a 4" embroidery hoop. That was part of the challenge that I gave myself. I wanted to see how different it would be to work on a much smaller scale. After making the drawing of the photo within a circle, I didn't colour it but did mark instructions about the colours that I wanted in each area.
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| Drawing of the image with colour instructions |
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| Marking the areas directly on the background fabric |
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| Getting lots of stitching done. Sorry about the dark photo. |
Here's a final photo of Desert Landscape in progress.
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| All that's left is the bright blue of the sky |
What I learned
- Working in a smaller hoop was fun! I used narrower strips of fabric - about 1". As long as all of the strips are roughly the same width, the coils look uniform. Of course, if you want something to stand out, you can used wider fabric which makes a wider coil!
- I also used shorter coils, especially for the mountains and the sky around them.
- Different coloured coils were used underneath the mountains to ensure a strong contrast between the desert, the trees and the mountains.
- I also used two different batik fabrics for the mountains to get different colours in the mountains.
- I used a FriXion pen to mark the pattern on the background fabric. You can see on the earlier progress picture that I just cross out the lines that I don't want to use. In theory I could use any pen but I don't want to get into that habit...and then use the wrong pen by mistake!
- My next hoop will be 5 or 6 inches. I want to add embroidery on top of some of the coils. We'll see how that goes!😊
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Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 557 of Free Motion Mavericks! It was a very productive week! Thanks for linking up. Here are the projects from last week that included FMQ, ruler work or walking foot quilting.
Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts made a gorgeous quilt,
Sulaxi, for the Timeless Traditions Blog Hop.
Kat of Scrapbox Quilts made a lovely
Tossed Leaves and Pumpkin runner with 2 placemat panels. She quilted this with a diagonal around the small squares while she FMQ around the pumpkins and leaves.
Kat used a serpentine stitch grid for this
string baby quilt that was made from donations from the quilting community. It will also be donated to a good organisation.
Deb the Scrappy Quilter made this very lovely
water coloured quilt. After struggling, she was able to FMQ a water ripple design on it.
Gwyned Trefethen finished her thread painting demo,
A Dance Among the Flowers. She stippled the background and will be wrapping it around an 8" x 8" canvas.
Brenda of Songbird Designs made
Sedona Starburst for the Timeless Traditions blog hop. What a beauty! You'll want to visit her post to see more of her FMQ! Here's the quilt and a peak at the FMQ and ruler work.
Frédérique of Patchwork & Quilts presented
BB quilts that will be donated. These were made by her friend Maribé. Here is one that was quilted with hearts!
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| BB quilts quilted with a heart design by Maribé |
I'm enjoying watching you explore coiling in your work. Wonder what it will be like to add embroidery, both visually and to work with stitching into the coils. Definitely something fun to explore.
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