Contrary to what I`d planned, in the end I didn`t have any time left to write another post before going on holiday, so I`m catching up now that we`re back (after 4 awesome weeks in Hungary... but I won`t bore you with details, it`s sufficient to say, again, that the holiday was AWESOME!). After arriving home last night, I found some lovely stitchy magazines piled up on the carpet, and the first one I opened was issue 113 of Gold, with Durene Jones` sunflowers on the cover. Although the colour palette is not one I`d have chosen if I had been to pick a picture for myself, yet I loved this project for its technical merits: it only uses a few colours, it grows pretty quickly and the beads add a nice change to the usual finishing touches.
I hope you`ve all had a lovely summer, happy stitching!
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| In the beginning, there was the Venetian mask... |
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| But in a few short hours, it turned into Sunflowers at Dusk |
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| I love the finish: framed in a hoop - cute! |
Beautiful stitching..
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Beautiful stitching, and amazingly quick!
ReplyDeleteI always love to see flowers both real and stitched! Beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteThank you, ladies :) As for the `amazingly quick` bit, I think I should have put the `few short hours` in inverted commas, lol!
ReplyDeleteA few short hours ?! It was a lot of work with a needle. The effect is amazing. A propos, you are working with embroidery frame?
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Lol, I definitely should`ve put it in inverted commas, I can see that now! :) The "few short hours" were actually 70 - but it didn`t feel that long...? I`m sure you`ve stitched pictures like that too, when you didn`t even realise how much time you`d spent working on them, all of a sudden they were just... finished somehow. ;) As for the gadgets of the trade: no, I don`t use anything special - neither hoop nor frame, just thread and needle, lol! :)
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