I have finished the sewing my first project designed by me! It is for one of the classes that I will be teaching at Gen Con this summer -- Introduction to stumpwork embroidery. Stumpwork is a three dimensional form of embroidery. Stitches can be worked around pieces of wire to create individual forms such as leaves, insect wings or flower petals. This form is then applied to the main body of work by piercing the background fabric with the wires and securing tightly. Other shapes can be created using padding under the stitches, usually in the form of felt layers sewn one upon the other in increasingly smaller sizes. The felt is then covered with a layer of embroidery stitches.
My next design project will be one with cats. :)
We are down to the last of the unpacking. To give you an idea of what things looked like around here:
Of course Toaster wanted to be sure that we moved him, too:
Banshee just wanted to be near us:
Comments (3)
Very impressive! And now I know what stumpwork is. For some reason I thought it had some political campaign element to it.
Also, very impressed at how quickly you dispatched your wall of boxes. We still have boxes from our move last year...
My Panda is clever and creative!
Beautiful! I love stumpwork, my mom was big on that and also trapunto, where you stuff the quilted areas to raise them up to add demention.