Sunday, April 19, 2009

Not one stitch stitched...

but... I have tried something new - not sure really if this stitching blog is the place to put it - but here goes anyway... P bought me a voucher to Zart - an art supply shop - as part of my Christmas present and I have been interested in the Derwent Inktense pencils for quite awhile... So I finally bit the bullet and went and spent my voucher on a tin of 24 - today I had a quick go... This is one of E's characters which I have traced onto some calico and then applied with intense pencil...
Basically you can use them a couple of different ways - I started by using the pencils dry straight onto the fabric - a bit like colouring in - then I used a dampened paint brush to brush over the colour which then seemed to come alive with colour intensity - I let that layer dry then repeated the process - sometimes using the pencil dipped into water to create a more definite line... It does say that once dry you can use other mediums to layer the colour or define texture...

As you can see I have added more colour and shaded some areas with the second application...I'm really looking forward to spending more time playing with this medium - the goal is to combine both pencils/paint and stitching somehow... Helen from hugs n' kisses - I believe uses also uses a similar process with her quilts. Helen does amazing work and it would take hours of both patience and love to produce what she does... Me... I am not that patient - but it is fun to step outside my comfort zone and try something new occassionally...

Until next time...

Sharon xxx




Monday, April 13, 2009

Nearly there...



On the home stretch with this - I didn't do as much stitching over Easter as I planned to do... I am not a big fan of satin stitch so I've decided not to colour all the little boxes on the border edge...

Hopefully by this time next week I can say that this is finished and I'm onto my BOM 'Hope' block...

Sharon xxx

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Hope - not religious content...

Yahhhhh!!!!!! I have Hope... No - not that sort of Hope - Gail Pan's sort of Hope - the free online BOM to stitch... I know what I am going to be doing over Easter...

Which by the way - A Happy and safe Easter to anyone who might swing by here over that time... :)

Sharon xxx

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Update...


Another dreadful photo - not as much achieved as I would have liked - but that's life... Looking forward to the next Gail Pan block the day after tomorrow... I hope to get some meaningful stitching in over Easter...

Sharon xxx