Showing posts with label poppy field. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poppy field. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

New poppy field cards

Working on some poppy field cards for our Etsy shop.
The landscape is machine stitched ... strips of different fabrics and yarns overlapped then stitched.
The poppies are worked by hand ... a combination of french knots and hand sewn red beads.

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Fabric pens and embroidery

I have just recently started using this technique and am pleased with the results.
First, I draw a design onto cotton fabric using fabric pen.  A laundry marker is really useful for doing black lines if they are required.
After leaving the design to dry, I then embellish the image with hand embroidery and beads stitched on by hand.
So far I have used this for small pieces ... just a couple of inches square.
I think there are endless possibilities!