Really Off the Wall Friday

There are lots of things going on here at Quilt Routes! 

Mainly in my head it has to be said, but I am working on some new designs.

I am not being deliberately secretive but things are not working out to my satisfaction just yet and today I have decided to take a break and do some domestic sewing, finishing off a table runner and place mats that have been sitting around unfinished for quite a while.

What sewing are you doing today?

Linking up with Off The Wall Friday.

Too Much?

 I have been playing with my soldering iron and some synthetics.

Adding a lot of machine stitching.

Plus a a little bit of glitz!

I always like to do an alternate version of my kits and this one has been in my head for such a long time and I just needed to get it done. Even though I am retiring this design.
I really feel that I need to learn to edit myself. I don't have to do everything I think of!
Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me?
Sunset Tree available here and here until they are gone!

Don't fence me in...

Thank you for the comments on my last post. I discovered I am not the only one that has a thing about fences. I have done a few like this, even though there are none like this along my bit of coastline.

Landscape Backgrounds continued

I have been meaning to post about the stitching that I added to the backgrounds for days. Every time I sat down to do it I realized that there was one I had not taken a photo of. I would then get distracted by something else. Finally got my scatty brain into action!

The pictures speak for themselves. Lots of easy straight line stitching. The colour and the choice of thread do the work.

I did change the stitch size on this one. Making it bigger as I moved towards the foreground, to try and portray some depth. Not sure if it works or not.
Next time, the focus of each piece.
What would you put on these backgrounds?

Are you ready for your close up?

The painting has been done, and you are getting close up angled shots.

Gloomy, wet conditions here mean that it is still wet. Plus the light is not good for photos.
I have tried to inject a bit of summer colour while we wait for the Jet Stream to move!

 Maybe this was a bit too much, but never fear.

A few more warm colours and a bit of toning down has resulted in this.

There might be few more light patches when it has completely dried!
I am not sure what I feel about this at the moment. I am fighting the urge to get a dark thread and stitch around the flower design.
I think I prefer the back!

I can see this working on a cushion or table runner maybe but as a piece of art I'd need something more. I have gone back to look at the work of June C Barnes and can see that I could achieve more contrast with the right choice of colours. More experiments with this technique are needed I think.

Well, that is it!!
I have reached the end of the scrap bag !!! Time to move on to other things.
I hope you will check back on Friday for an overview of the whole project, and and my thoughts on the experience.

Almost done

As boring as it is to show pictures of white fabric with white stitching, that is what you are going to get here today :)

Apart from some very small bits, which I may or may not try to use at some point in the future, all that is left in the scrap bag are some pieces of white/off white.

A discussion of the wonderful work of June C Barnes and her Stitching To Dye technique while at my Art Quilt group last week, brought me to the thought of trying something similar here, but with paint instead of dye, of course.

So here is the piece all stitched up and ready to go. At this point I have no idea how it will turn out or what approach I am going to take. Neat or diluted paint/Pre wet or not/One colour or more...
Decisions, decisions!!

P.S. The stitching was based on this done previously

Purple Roses

the flash was on when I took this hence the difference in colour to the following pics

I went for a dark grey thread and appliqued in a scrappy style.

I would have chosen a stronger contrast to the background had the colours been available in the scrap bag. This was not working for me.

I outlined the flowers in black.

Then decided that it all the stitching needed to be black to stand out. (Just seen that stray thread. LOL!)

I have edged it in green but may go over it in black. Can't decide on that at the moment.

And because I have just discovered the Super Macro on my camera, here is a close up.

There's more...

a heart revealed

Yes, the scrim was in the bag. How lucky was that!
Have a good weekend.

a heart's progress

Any project like this is going to need a lot of stitching to keep all those pieces in place.

Beads help to cover any spots not covered up properly.

The beads were not in the scrap bag admittedly, but they were part of a bracelet that broke a few years ago. I knew they would come in useful someday:)

Trying something new.

I have had these doodles hanging about for quite a while. Time to put them to use.

I use freezer paper templates with paint and wondered about applying the same priciple for adding a stitched motif.

I could have stitched the motif I choose by eye, but would not have been able to keep any uniformity.
Seems to work!

I am feeling quite pleased with myself at this point....but I have spotted a hitch...