I have joined in (again) with Wanderlust 2018 for January the theme is Pathways - the first lesson is a personal pathway, road, journey. I decided I would log the types of home I've lived in, only 7 homes, but 4 different types - this is a more unusual one.
Yes, for a year I lived in a blue caravan
At our last Embroiderers' Guild meeting, we had a guest tutor, Kirsten Yeates, who gave us all a practical afternoon in silk painting. This is what I made, I choose simple shapes.
I added the lines when I got home, with watercolour pencil
because that's the set of pencils to hand!
Having promised myself not to keep buying books, given book case collapse in middle of night, I have been good and made use of the library. However, reading the blog of Karen Ruane, sigh, and seeing my friend Sue's posts about it, my fingers twitched and I hit the 'buy' button.
Its not a book about lots of different stitches, and if you know embroidery likely you will know all of the ones mentioned. However, it is about construction of the stitch, and that is what appealed to me, especially as I have made my own grids etc
My promise not to buy more books isn't really working, given I have 2 more on order. They are not creative books though, so won't go in 'my' bookcases, so don't really count, do they?
Oh.... I might just tell you about the Sketchbook I ordered too, another time!
2 comments:
Nice variety! Not heard of the book, off to see...
oops!! sorry for tempting you...do you like it?
I love your silk painting. I also would have chosen simple shapes but yours is very effective...simple can be stunning especially if you choose to use gorgeous colours as you have.
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