The stitching is holding down these two (and 3 others) rectangles of gossamer (a very thin interfacing type material) that I have painted. The rectangles are about 5" x 6" in size. Below is a little bit closer view and you can sort of see the big stitches. It seems to be shinier in the picture than in reality, although there is some metallic gold paint on here.
While I've been doing this hand stitching, I've also been making more backgrounds to continue this series. I now have 5: red, blue/purple; yellow; green; and brownish. The last two are done with fabrics that have stamping and screening in addition to the dyed color. They are going to be more difficult to work with, I think, but one never progresses without a challenge.
We have a winter storm warning in effect for tonight and tomorrow - an inch or two of snow along with icing conditions. This will be the first snow of the season and odds are everything will be closed tomorrow. Baltimore goes into panic mode at the mention of snow and it's fueled to an even higher pitch by the tv weatherman who can't wait to tell us about how awful it's going to be. I'll bet the grocery stores are getting their pre-snow run on milk, bread, and toilet paper. I can sort of understand milk and bread, but for heavens sake, don't most people have more than one spare roll of toilet paper in their closet?
2 comments:
I like! I have been doing hand stitching on organza this week. Since I have been under the weather with sinusitis, it is great to have this work to do because I don't feel as if I am falling behind.
I have been doing a variety of stitches - most are large. I like the organic look of the stitches against the organza.
This is very interesting and rich work. Try not to think about the time spent with the handstitching but instead how you could not get the same effect with the quicker machine stitching.
I can say that because I find hand stitching very relaxing, although you are right, there's a limit to how much you can do in a day before you go bonkers! My recent hand stitching has been binding and sleeves - pretty mundane, but at least the quilts were relatively small.
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