transparant

The new Stitch Club workshop by Vinny Stapley
is with tulle, lace and photo transfers on organdie.
I only have cotton organdie in a very dark purple colour
so that wasn't very useful.
But I do have thin cotton (not as transparant as organdie !)
and I do have very thin silk, so making the transfers
wasn't that big a problem in the end.

I don't have any old photographs
so my garden will have to do for inspiration.
Winter aconites are the very first flowers
that announce that spring is near,
even before the snowdrops are seen !
Last year I also took them as inspiration, so why not again.
Making the transfers went really smooth
and even cutting them out wasn't too difficult.
But then, after a laid out the design came the stitching
(no photo yet)
and that was horrible : like stitching in thin air !
In the end I took the tulle out of the hoop

to stitch around the edges
pfffffft !

To be continued !
(giving my fingers a bit of rest first)

last february day

On this last day of the shortest month
seven planets in the sky
and a new moon.
(sadly at that moment there were clouds here
though much later there was a beautiful clear sky)

A good moment to show the last Stitch Club workshop
by Darren Ball that I finished,
It was meant to be with a vintage photo as inspiration
but I don't have those, so I chose something else :
good "old" Maisy
(by Lucy Cousins)

My collection of old pictures, we used to adorn the little rhymes with
in the poetry booklets little children (girls) used to have.

Some sketches with possible choices, but in the end I decided on Maisy.

Some extra tulle layers and some machine stitching finished it off.
(though I'm not totally happy with the stitching
and working on the machine)

On to the next work !