1 Year of Stitching project

My newfound love of embroidery led me to this great project started by Sarah
1 Year of Stitches

There is a facebook page as well just called 

1 year of Stitches 

Each week there is a new folder started on a Sunday for the participants to upload their progress photos, the best thing is that anyone can join in.

This is my first weeks work. I used a vintage linen chair back cover and decided to work shapes randomly and then tie it all together once I have used up most of the space. I started with a circle and then added the heart,  using a water dissolvable pen to draw the shapes so that I could keep the shapes reasonably uniform.

Week 2 and I have added a hexagon and a paisley shape.

Week three and the 3 interlocking circles are in place. 

 Now I have to think of another shape to add , any ideas would be gratefully 

received

Dropcloth Sampler

To practice some more stitches and learn more about embroidery, I bought Rebecca Rinquist's great book.  

I love it, the bonus was that at the end of the book was a little pocket with a cotton sampler to stitch. 

This was my finished piece, I like it in the hoop so I may hang it in my workroom.

Creative textiles - blue

The Creative Textiles course was held at   

The Old Artroom in Swaffham.

The Old Artroom

Jane Clarke was our tutor and she made it a fun time and we all stretched ourselves and achieved great stuff.

Once I had finished working with those glorious autumn colours, I worked on a blue fabric book.
This page is made up of threads trappped in Sulky and free machined to make a lacy delicate fabric.

Then the two pieces were layered on blue velvet.

Eyelet starburst embroidery on linen backed with a gold fabric.

Hardanger embroidery backed with gold fabric.

I went to a workshop held by the lovely Dilys Harvey.

I would never have believed that I could achieve this but Dilys tuition was so helpful.

This is the only embroidery that I have worked on since I was at school... a looooooooong time ago.