Photos of crosses taken on my morning walks in Agia Triada - Koroni–Greece. September 2012

 

 

 

     

Something else.

 

I have spent seven weeks in Greece. We left Sweden aug. 31 by car and left Greece oct. 19. As we where going by car I had the opportunity to  take lots of fabrics, threads etc with me, but forgot to bring a sewinghoop!! A hoop I needed in order to go on with Module 1, Chapter 7 at the Distant Stitch Course.

Missing a hoop I had to do something else, so I made some small works.

Fig. 1. Collage with crosses.

This collage is made of Lutradur as a background stabilazer and then bits of  fabrics such as solids and sheers backed with Bondaweb/Vliesofix where then ironed on the Lutradur.

 

Fig. 2. Embroidered landscape.

This is a wholecloth I have painted with transfer dyes and then embroidered with different kind of stitches and threads.

  Fig. 2a. Close ups.

Fig 3. Painted wholecloth with transfer dyes.

The wholecloth looked something like this before I started to embroider (it should  be rotaded to the right, but I do not know how to!)

Fig. 4. View from terrace.

This is my inspiration for the embroidered landscape. I have changed the olive trees to a flower meadow instead.

Fig. 5. Painted Tyveck pieces on felt.

Painted Tyveck cut into pieces and attatched with gold thread to black felt. Seed beads added and running stitch with different threads are filling the background.

Fig. 5a. Close up.

Fig. 6. Round painted pieces of Tyveck on felt.

Another variation of painted Tyveck on black felt.

Fig 6a. Close up.

Chapter 6. USE OF BONDING (TRANSFER ADHESIVE) IN APPLIQUÉ

 

Here I have choosen one of my “cut and fold” designs and translated them into fabric using “Bondaweb” (Vliesofix)

Fig.1.  The background cross is solid fabric and the front cross is cut from a sheer fabric.

  Fig. 2. The background cross is painted “Bondaweb” with acrylic paint and the front cross is cut from solid fabric.

  Fig. 3. Background and front crosses are cut from solid fabrics.

 

TO MAKE A DECORATIVE BONDED FABRIC WITH BITS

Fig 4. Here I have used lots of tiny pieces of nets and threads and sandwiched them between two layers of sheers.

 Fig. 5 More sandwiched threads, bits of fabrics, foil and sheers.

Fig. 6. Fancy threads and pieces of fabrics are sandwiched between a blue net and a solid fabric.

Positive image

Fig. 7. The same threads and fabrics but now as a negative image.