On the way to a meeting in Birmingham on a Sunday I started stitching these rose hips from sketches made earlier. Yup, blue rose hips. But then, the expected train turned out to be a rail replacement coach - and we were well over an hour late arriving.
Once the hand stitching was covered with machining, and the machining extended to make some petally things, and the "plastic" dissolved, came the question of how to use these motifs. Applied onto something I screenprinted earlier, perhaps?
Some of the motifs were needed to cover the moth holes in a sweater. Especially halfway down the back. Here's the trial placement
and with beads as stamens and a sprinkling of french knots, here's how it turned out.
The original rose hips are for another, different, project. Watch this spot.
Once the hand stitching was covered with machining, and the machining extended to make some petally things, and the "plastic" dissolved, came the question of how to use these motifs. Applied onto something I screenprinted earlier, perhaps? 
Some of the motifs were needed to cover the moth holes in a sweater. Especially halfway down the back. Here's the trial placement 
and with beads as stamens and a sprinkling of french knots, here's how it turned out.
The original rose hips are for another, different, project. Watch this spot.
2 comments:
I like what you've done on the sweater. You'd pay a bit to buy one decked out like that. Then again, how long did you spend stitching the flowers, then applying them and the beads??? ;-)
How novel! I particularly like the embroideries on the screenprinting piece - I think it is the colour combinations.
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