Monday, September 25, 2006
09 26 06 WIP small embroidery
A small embroidery for the fun of it...lots of shapes and textures.There are some things that will look very different in the finished piece. In the oval empty spaces near to the right side i want to do some stitching that will be reminiscent of leaves. The purply blob on the left needs something to make it less.ummm. aggressive in the piece, but not sure what i will do.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
09 25 06 100 details-002
When I finally did the first one, I had to laugh cause it ws so late in the game, and right after I got this one done, the scanner and the computer decided to quit talkiing to each other(AGAIN!)so now it is even later........but here it is. The same folk art colors and this time i did add a little wooden seed bead.
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And just because they are so much fun, here's another color swatch.........
and another color block...lol....
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And just because they are so much fun, here's another color swatch.........
and another color block...lol....
Saturday, September 23, 2006
09 24 06 Sunday Already
It seems like just yesterday that I was wondering if i would get anything done this week...and now i know....and the answer isssssssssssssssss..not much..unfortunately!
Of course playing around on the computer doesn;t interfere at all!
Having so much fun doodling in Paint.
The M.A.Day is a line drawing of a grey scale image that has been posted previously. It is two birds on a very leafy ranch. It is copyright free.
Happy stitching.
Of course playing around on the computer doesn;t interfere at all!
Having so much fun doodling in Paint.
The M.A.Day is a line drawing of a grey scale image that has been posted previously. It is two birds on a very leafy ranch. It is copyright free.
Happy stitching.
Friday, September 22, 2006
For 09 23 06 Two Paislies on M.A.D. and Mija pic
Here is a picture of my female pup. She is so incredibly sweet. She is far more eager and willing to please that her brother Sin Huevos and wags her tail ALL the time. Both she and her bro have beautiful smiles and maybe one day i will be able to capture them.
And here is another of the two of them. i have this terrible feeling that now that i have a digital camera i am going to end up one of those people that just has a million pics of the babies and shares them at the drop of a hat....lol...........
Also, on the Motif a Day page (under "collections" in the sidebar) there are two paislies. They are adaptations of paislies from a Dover collection.If you read the sidebar on the M.A.Day Series you will know that the previous entries are deleted when the new one goes up.
And finally...more of the Easy Share software...i love it...it allows you to edit a picture(or graphic) in "coloring book" mode............which means it makes black and white outline graphics of pics....this is a great feature.You can easily begin to embroider a photo of...oh, let's say my dogs! Here's one from the bunch of photos I took this evening.
Some of the lines need to be darkened but otherwise this is just a great thing. I did this as well to some color vector clips i had of birds and the outlines are dark, sharp and clear. I don;t know if you can get this software without buying the camera, but if you can, and it is not exhorbitantly priced, this feature is just the greatest!
I have been having a lot of fun with my programs as you can see, so i thought i would share another color swatch..these are more fun than jelly beans........lol.....so here's "golden glow" for want of a better name.
And here is another of the two of them. i have this terrible feeling that now that i have a digital camera i am going to end up one of those people that just has a million pics of the babies and shares them at the drop of a hat....lol...........
Also, on the Motif a Day page (under "collections" in the sidebar) there are two paislies. They are adaptations of paislies from a Dover collection.If you read the sidebar on the M.A.Day Series you will know that the previous entries are deleted when the new one goes up.
And finally...more of the Easy Share software...i love it...it allows you to edit a picture(or graphic) in "coloring book" mode............which means it makes black and white outline graphics of pics....this is a great feature.You can easily begin to embroider a photo of...oh, let's say my dogs! Here's one from the bunch of photos I took this evening.
Some of the lines need to be darkened but otherwise this is just a great thing. I did this as well to some color vector clips i had of birds and the outlines are dark, sharp and clear. I don;t know if you can get this software without buying the camera, but if you can, and it is not exhorbitantly priced, this feature is just the greatest!
I have been having a lot of fun with my programs as you can see, so i thought i would share another color swatch..these are more fun than jelly beans........lol.....so here's "golden glow" for want of a better name.
09 22 06 Color Swatch-Peach
The Motif A Day can be found under "Collection" on the side bar, and today is a greyscale of two birds on a leafy branch. It was greyscaled from photo and i thought this would be an easier way to see the basic shapoes and outlines.
Got the scanner back running and even have figured out some things on the new digital camera..i am pretty excited about the new ways of capturing and keeping images!
Have also been playing around in MS Paint and my PSP program just to remind myself of the tools available. Here's a color swatch i came up with in PSP. It was made by using the airbrush tool at its largest(and therefore most diffuse spray of color) setting. I thought it would make a really pretty piece of fabric so i saved the basic swatch.
Got the scanner back running and even have figured out some things on the new digital camera..i am pretty excited about the new ways of capturing and keeping images!
Have also been playing around in MS Paint and my PSP program just to remind myself of the tools available. Here's a color swatch i came up with in PSP. It was made by using the airbrush tool at its largest(and therefore most diffuse spray of color) setting. I thought it would make a really pretty piece of fabric so i saved the basic swatch.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
009 21 06 Paisley Challenge and a pic of Sin Huevos
Sin Huevos! Here's a pic of the male puppy and one of the two lights of my life!
Paisley Challenge in progress report.........lol
Stitched more on the Stitching Post Paisley Challenge piece and made many design decision and laid out more of the main areas.
Overview
Detail
Paisley Challenge in progress report.........lol
Stitched more on the Stitching Post Paisley Challenge piece and made many design decision and laid out more of the main areas.
Overview
Detail
09 21 06 Motif a day for today and stuff...
The Motif a Day can be found on the side bar under "collections'
Todays graphic is one i did and it is of course marked with a copyright and is for personl use only. It is a 4by6 landscape. It's just basic outlines and i thoutt it would be cool to use as the starting point for a fabric postcard. Or even for paper arts....the line drawing could easily be fused to some non woven interfacing and cut a part for templates.
I f any decided to try using this drawing in any way, i would love to see the results. Just give me an email to the link and i will be happy to include it here! :>)
Otherwise, not much, still waiting to see if the scanner is amont the living, or do i need to get a new one.I have the camera that i am slowly figureing out to use but i am not sure it will ever be as convenient as a scanner. Guess we'll see. Have been busily sleeping trying to get rid of some aches and pains........lol...and embroidering on on the Stitching post Paisley challenge.
I have also started and am just about done with a 4x6 size piece that i thought for sure would be going thorugh the mails...but as usual, i got very carried away with texture and i have a feeling this one is staying home with me....
ktj
Todays graphic is one i did and it is of course marked with a copyright and is for personl use only. It is a 4by6 landscape. It's just basic outlines and i thoutt it would be cool to use as the starting point for a fabric postcard. Or even for paper arts....the line drawing could easily be fused to some non woven interfacing and cut a part for templates.
I f any decided to try using this drawing in any way, i would love to see the results. Just give me an email to the link and i will be happy to include it here! :>)
Otherwise, not much, still waiting to see if the scanner is amont the living, or do i need to get a new one.I have the camera that i am slowly figureing out to use but i am not sure it will ever be as convenient as a scanner. Guess we'll see. Have been busily sleeping trying to get rid of some aches and pains........lol...and embroidering on on the Stitching post Paisley challenge.
I have also started and am just about done with a 4x6 size piece that i thought for sure would be going thorugh the mails...but as usual, i got very carried away with texture and i have a feeling this one is staying home with me....
ktj
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
09 20 06 Two Small Spot Motifs CF
Today there are two small spot motifs in color. Check in the sidebar under "collections".
have fun.
ktj
have fun.
ktj
Monday, September 18, 2006
09 19 06
The Motif A Day series for today is a copyright free goldfish from a stencil.You can access it by clicking on the "collections" link in the sidebar.
enjoy.
enjoy.
09 18 06 Motif a day series info/links etc
The Motif A Day Series can be accessed by using the side bar and clicking on it under the word "Collections".When I add a new pic, the old one will be deleted. It seems that blogger occasionally changes the extension from .gif to.png.
I will try to catch these before publishing, but if you find a png, it will still save and you can then do a conversion to jpg or whatever you like in your editing program.
Irfan view is free and easy and does it.
Irfanview
And thanks to Lou Anne S. for bringing it to my attention that some of the graphics were .pngs and that the email address i put in the welcome section didn;t have the .com on it.
I add links every single day to the sidebar to the various categories. They are not labelled "new" or anything, but if you know of a place that you think would fit in one of the categories very well, please don;t hesitate to let me know. I'll check it out. My email is in the side bar.
I will try to catch these before publishing, but if you find a png, it will still save and you can then do a conversion to jpg or whatever you like in your editing program.
Irfan view is free and easy and does it.
And thanks to Lou Anne S. for bringing it to my attention that some of the graphics were .pngs and that the email address i put in the welcome section didn;t have the .com on it.
I add links every single day to the sidebar to the various categories. They are not labelled "new" or anything, but if you know of a place that you think would fit in one of the categories very well, please don;t hesitate to let me know. I'll check it out. My email is in the side bar.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
09 14 06 Satin Stitched Flowers
Ati asked a question of the LTE list about what threads to use for satin stitching. In the discussion i mentioned that i would put up this photo of using sewing thread for satin stitches. Here it is. The threads used for the flowers are for the most part rayon40/3 and some 30/3 along with some flower thread and cotton sewing thread. The piece measure 3 inches top to botton and just under 3.5 inches across.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Update on the Paisley Challenge
Here's the url to the SP blog, where members are busy stitching.
The Stitching Post Blog: Paisley Challenge For Stitching Post Members
Over on the Stitching Post blog members are posting their versions of a paisley designed by Sharon B.The link above takes you to the post that explains the challenge and also the pictures of the member's work. It also included the link to the original designs as posted by Sharon on herblog. Scroll down a bit and you will see them.
My scanner is still not being recognized by the computer AGAIN! so i have to wait to post any pics of what i have been doing recently!
ktj
The Stitching Post Blog: Paisley Challenge For Stitching Post Members
Over on the Stitching Post blog members are posting their versions of a paisley designed by Sharon B.The link above takes you to the post that explains the challenge and also the pictures of the member's work. It also included the link to the original designs as posted by Sharon on herblog. Scroll down a bit and you will see them.
My scanner is still not being recognized by the computer AGAIN! so i have to wait to post any pics of what i have been doing recently!
ktj
Monday, September 11, 2006
A book that is a must have!
For the discriminating gift giver and person with a sense of humor: go check this out and see if you don;t have the wild urge to buy this book!It's called
Killer Slippers and How to Make Them
the link is the side bar as it is too long to show up here.....
ktj
Killer Slippers and How to Make Them
the link is the side bar as it is too long to show up here.....
ktj
09 11 06 New Flickr Group
There is a new embroidery group over at flickr, "Embroidered Motifs".
Embroidered Motifs>
It for embroiderers using any techniques to post the photos of the motifs they have done. If you have a flickr account you can upload your photos to the group pool. Getting a flickr account is pretty easy if you want one...and I hope you stop by the group and consider joining. Its great eye candy seeing all the embroideries of the different motifs that we use in our work. It is open to all embroiderers, not just crazy quilters. The photo of course should be primarily of the motif and large enough so that we can really see the detail! That's what really makes it fun, learning from, and being inspired by one another!
Hope to see you there.
ktj
It for embroiderers using any techniques to post the photos of the motifs they have done. If you have a flickr account you can upload your photos to the group pool. Getting a flickr account is pretty easy if you want one...and I hope you stop by the group and consider joining. Its great eye candy seeing all the embroideries of the different motifs that we use in our work. It is open to all embroiderers, not just crazy quilters. The photo of course should be primarily of the motif and large enough so that we can really see the detail! That's what really makes it fun, learning from, and being inspired by one another!
Hope to see you there.
ktj
Friday, September 08, 2006
09 08 06 Sandie W.'s Heart arrived!
This wonderful piece of stiching arrived in the mail with a lovely note and some goodies...oooh the lace butterfly, and the gold one.........AND the piece of hand-dyed silk ribbon....thanks you so much Sandie for the work you put into the heart and for being so thoughtful to include little lovely bits!
I really am living among the angels!
ktj
09 07 06 Susan N.'s heart recieved!
Here is Susan Nixon's heart that i got in the mail today! Along of course with a wonderful note and some lovely bits and pieces.....especially mind boggling were the extremely small seed beads......gggggg....will have to look for a needle small enough and a magnifying glass big enough! Thank you Susan for this lovely treat!
09 07 06 Seam 001 -100 details in HOW may days(old post edited)
I am so late getting to do this....gggggggg, it;s more like 100 details in a couple of years for me....but here it is, the first one, from day one...
This is actually based on Sharon's 100 details, day one. If you look closely at it you can see that it really is a series of alternating tirangles, slightly off set because of the bead along the central line..... i drew out the basic lines so that i could go into my sewing room and still remember it! The thread i chose didn;t seem to go well with beads, although now that i have done the seam, i think that some small wooden seed -type beads in bright colors would have done very well. At any rate, what I did was stitch the central horizontal line in blue, add the triangle lines and decided to put a french knot in orangey brown where Sharon had a bead. Pearls just would not have made it here..lol....anyway, i then whipped the lines and the french knot disappeared visually! So of course, i had to find a way to bring it back out, so I wrapped the knot in purple round and round, putting a straight stitch on either side to hold the threads. ok, fine....what next???? Well, in place of the bugle beads(which I had EVERY intention of putting in the seam when i started it) i ended up with bullions. No heart beads, no candy colored flower buttons which i thought would be pretty cool actually, so french knots it was in bright yellow. I really was tired of the values by the time the bright yellow came round and it was a natural choice to brighten it all up...and then, because there there were so many colors by this time, i decided to add the extra line of yellow along the triangles. I think it works very well and looks like a folk art seam to me....so that is what i am calling it, folk art seam 001.
Sharon's day one seam treatment can be found here-just scroll to the bottom of the page!
Day One
ktj
This is actually based on Sharon's 100 details, day one. If you look closely at it you can see that it really is a series of alternating tirangles, slightly off set because of the bead along the central line..... i drew out the basic lines so that i could go into my sewing room and still remember it! The thread i chose didn;t seem to go well with beads, although now that i have done the seam, i think that some small wooden seed -type beads in bright colors would have done very well. At any rate, what I did was stitch the central horizontal line in blue, add the triangle lines and decided to put a french knot in orangey brown where Sharon had a bead. Pearls just would not have made it here..lol....anyway, i then whipped the lines and the french knot disappeared visually! So of course, i had to find a way to bring it back out, so I wrapped the knot in purple round and round, putting a straight stitch on either side to hold the threads. ok, fine....what next???? Well, in place of the bugle beads(which I had EVERY intention of putting in the seam when i started it) i ended up with bullions. No heart beads, no candy colored flower buttons which i thought would be pretty cool actually, so french knots it was in bright yellow. I really was tired of the values by the time the bright yellow came round and it was a natural choice to brighten it all up...and then, because there there were so many colors by this time, i decided to add the extra line of yellow along the triangles. I think it works very well and looks like a folk art seam to me....so that is what i am calling it, folk art seam 001.
Sharon's day one seam treatment can be found here-just scroll to the bottom of the page!
ktj
09 07 06 Hearts recieved
When I first joined the COH Susie Watts sent me a heart without seeing anything I had embroidered. I love this heart, it is so quiet and peaceful..neat and calm. When I scanned the hearts not too long ago i put them on flickr thinking that they would get more exposure that way, but I have decided that they belong here as well....after all this is getting to be the real record of my stitching experiencec, and the swap is part of that.
This is Susie's heart for me.
TRhis next heart is from Belinda Sweeney and i think there is already a picture of it on the blog, but since i like to be organized( roflmao) i want to keep all the hearts i have recieved so far in a row.....ggg..this is the second heart I got and it was a surprise. WOW! Can you imagine getting this unexpectedly...isn;t it gorgeous?
The next two hearts I recieved on the same day...I opened the one from Norma Harris first, so i will show it first....i love hardanger, and this is just the perfect heart for me.. her work is so lovely...it couldn;t be more elegant in my book!
And this wonderful heart is from Kathleen Casey for whom i shall always have a soft spot.....look closely and you will see all the buttonholes stitch flowers behind the ribbon sunflower, and you will also see the other buttonhole on the right side. I think it is a fence, but what it REALLY is is a supreme effort to master a stitch and put something wonderful on a heart. I adore this effort, and i adore the end result.
If you like these hearts, please visit the sites of the gals that made them and let them know-
Susie W's site
Bear's Den
Norma's Blog
Not sure if Kathleen has a url for a blog or flickr account or not, am waiting to hear from her, so in the meantime, if you wouldlike, please comment under her picture and i will make sure she gets the compliments! OF COURSE they will be complements!
ktj
This is Susie's heart for me.
TRhis next heart is from Belinda Sweeney and i think there is already a picture of it on the blog, but since i like to be organized( roflmao) i want to keep all the hearts i have recieved so far in a row.....ggg..this is the second heart I got and it was a surprise. WOW! Can you imagine getting this unexpectedly...isn;t it gorgeous?
The next two hearts I recieved on the same day...I opened the one from Norma Harris first, so i will show it first....i love hardanger, and this is just the perfect heart for me.. her work is so lovely...it couldn;t be more elegant in my book!
And this wonderful heart is from Kathleen Casey for whom i shall always have a soft spot.....look closely and you will see all the buttonholes stitch flowers behind the ribbon sunflower, and you will also see the other buttonhole on the right side. I think it is a fence, but what it REALLY is is a supreme effort to master a stitch and put something wonderful on a heart. I adore this effort, and i adore the end result.
If you like these hearts, please visit the sites of the gals that made them and let them know-
Not sure if Kathleen has a url for a blog or flickr account or not, am waiting to hear from her, so in the meantime, if you wouldlike, please comment under her picture and i will make sure she gets the compliments! OF COURSE they will be complements!
ktj
09 06 06 Paisley Challenge Begun
This is the begining of a 6 by 4 postcard of a paisley design challenge in the Stitching Post group. Sharon B. graciously allowed use of her paisley designs for us to embroider and interpret. The challenge is to take one of the three designs she posted on her blog and interpret it in any size and any technique. We can add design lines but not take any of Sharon's original lines out. This one has lines added, but i have a feeling that they will be changing as the embroidery progresses.
You can see Sharon's designs
09 02 06 Fake Gold check on rr patch
This is a detail from a rr i worked on about 6 years ago...this was some fake gold check that i saw at some chain crafts store and had no idea what to do with it. What a major pain it was to couch down without having it completely flatten out.
ktj
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