First, I've had a lot of new subscribers who seem to have come on board following a mention of my free designs on "Cute embroidery". You are all very welcome indeed, but I should perhaps mention that the freebies only appear every month or so, and not every week.
OK, I’ll carry on now with some of the pieces I did for Larks Gallery. These are all VERY “arty”, but so they probably should be if they’re going to be on show in an art gallery. At first glance they probably don’t look as if they’d be much use in most normal embroidery projects, but I think they are all ideas which could be developed for more “at home” projects
For example, this is an idea I’ve used before, both with fish and with birds as subjects. It’s simply a collection of transparent and outlined shapes overlying each other. Here, the shapes look very complicated and intricate, but that’s mostly just because they’re stitched on top of a complex and “busy” printed background. If you simplified the whole design a bit and stitched it on plain fabric the shapes would be clearer, and you could use it on (for example) a jacket or a scarf. In fact I might try that myself!
A school of transparent fish
Hi, Mia, Love the choice of colors that you used to stich out the fish. The printed fabric is just the perfect match for the almost transparent school of fish.
I think your fish would appear to be light and airy on a plain silk, organza, chiffon. or light weight fabric.
Can’t wait to see some of the other pieces that you are doing for the art gallery.
Your school of fish would look great on any fabric with the right thread choices. Love them.
Absolutely love this one!!!! It’s just perfect how the fish are so transparent! I think it’s the background that makes this so stunning. Okay, gushing is over.
Wow! This is awesome. You keep outdoing yourself!!
Love the fish and I agree they would look great on sheer or translucent fabric.