Project 4 Masterpieces

I machined stitched two pieces , on of the water painting and the other a photo of the still life for my Folio Piece. Both were done on Inkjet Fabric.

Project 4

Photos of still life and paintings used for Folio piece in Project 4 , Machine Embroidery, Warrnambool TAFE with Karen Richards.

I have used water colour, wax crayons and oil crayons in my paintings of the still life

Project 2

This is the piece I created for my Folio piece, Project 2 Machine Embroidery , Warrnambool TAFE. I have used cutback, applique and free machining. Fabrics used are printed chinese satin, plain satins and silk .

Using Solvy

Have used techniques from a Jan Beany book to create this piece by laying pieces of yarn and fabric between two layers of solvy before adding using free machining to create flowers and leaves.

Rusting and Tyvek Challenges

Monday Textile Group. May and June Challenges to use Tyvek and Rusting Techniques.

The top photo I have adhered painted tyvek to synthetic felt , heavily machined stitched with metallic thread before applying the heat gun.

Dancing Lady

A Birthday postcard made for my friend Joy. Inspired by an article in Stitch magazine.

Machined and hand embroidered

Earth, Water, Fire and Wind

This piece started out to represent Earth using techniques from Jean Littlejohns Voluptuous Velvet book.

I feel it represents Fire more than earth. Earth, Fire, Water and Wind are the themes for this years Machine Embroidery Group at Wattletree road and also the The Embroidery House Theme for exhibition this year.

The main part of this piece has been created using a multicoloured crushed velvet which has been machined then overlayed with organza and net before a heat gun was applied. Embellished with beading . The sky I used a piece of black synthetic felt which I machined felted silk and wool fibres to before overlaying with a multi coloured piece of organza and then added some free motion maching. Trees and birds have been created on water soluable fabric before being machined to piece.