Once again, I couldn't resist the temptation and challenge of Sharon B's Take a Stitch Tuesday. Embroidery (and cross stitch) are probably my most favorite craft activities. The focus for Week 1 for 2012 is the Fly Stitch.
I am using a variety of solid and variegated DMC Perle Cotton 5 for this project. It is a quilt top that my dear Granny made long ago and has been sitting in a box in my sewing room as a UFO for at least 10 years. This is a fairly simple employment of the stitch, but adds some wonderful texture to an otherwise less-than-exciting quilt top. It would be so much better if we could feel the stitches in photos rather than just see them, don't you think?
I worked a simple button hole stitch around all the leaves as they were attached to the background fabric with an iron-on adhesive and I want more stability than it offered alone. I am free handing the leaf design as I go. No rhyme or reason to the design, just something that makes it look more 3-dimensional and interesting.
The leaves on the quilt are in rich autumn colors, dark greens, browns, rusts, reds. However, there is one that is a bright orange. I just doesn't match the rest of the quilt, but my Granny was a wonderful seamstress and quilter, she didn't put it there by accident. I'm not sure if it will stay.
2 comments:
Love these colors and shapes. Your embroidery is the crowning touch.
Incorporating the fly stitch onto these leaves on such nice fabric is lovely and so nicely done!
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