I mentioned last week that I've been playing around with a new technique for adding texture to embroidery. Well, it's new to me anyway! It's quite straightforward, if a bit time-consuming to digitise. As I said last week, it's just a matter of appliqueing a piece of fabric onto a background, and then scribbling over it back and forth, with a simple running stitch
So, as cats are furry animals, I thought the new technique might be useful in giving an embroidered cat a nice hairy coat. Here's a cat in a folk-art style, with the stripes done in yellow and brown scribbling. It gives a nice, three-dimensional feeling, but unfortunately this isn't really clear in the scan
The cat among the flowers. Or is he maybe Ringo Starr?
My friend Cherri says that he looks a little like Ringo Starr – I'm not sure I agree with her there, but at least he does have a bit of character!
That is a purrfect cat!!!!!!
Wow I really love it.
Hi Mia, Wow!! I love your new cat among the flowers design. It is really spectacular! If you have a touch screen with your computer, you can really see the effect this technique has on the cat.
Oh yes Mia, he does have character. When you open up the photo to a larger size, the detail is amazing. All the different textures and stitches are terrific, and that fringe is just sew cute. WELL DONE on another design.
He’s adorable! And so cheery❤️
Only the bangs across his forehead look like Ringo! He’s darling, and when I click on the picture it enlarges, showing LOTS of stitching, on the cat and the flowers as well. It’s weird how just scribbling, as you call it, really looks like hairs on his furry little body. I just love cats, and can’t have them anymore due to an allergic husband, so thanks for your adorable embroidery! Your sharing is so educational as well as lovely to look at. Many thanks!