Dream Needlework Projects
Lula
using as long as it allows me to draw or illustrate the imaginative
pictures in my mind.
In fact, that's how I ended up designing needlework because I was so
inspired during a visit to a needlework shop and seeing a rainbow
palette of yarns and threads.....so many colors and textures to "paint"
with giving me the option to create art in three dimensional form!
For me, the most exciting thing about stitching is being able to create
my own "fabric".
As a former textile designer, this was a dream come true, to be able to
see my design become a piece of fabric and then even more exciting, to
take this fabric and make a three dimensional object with it!! Something
that I wasn't able to do painting on paper.
Paper was not as forgiving or durable to work with as my stitched
fabric.
That decided my choice of stitching to be needlepoint because of the
durability of the finished "fabric" that could be made into any
decorative object I'd like and being able to use blank canvas to either
paint a design on or to stitch a design freehand, designing as I go
which is my favorite way to stitch.
A favorite dream project has been to create handbags, such as large
totes and tiny little jewels of handbags finished with interesting bag
frames and other artsy embellishments such as semi-precious beads,
tassels, metallic threads and other glittery things and then lined with
a colorful silk in a brilliant color to match or contrast with the outer
design.
I've stitched a couple of needlepoint tote bags in the past but now
would like to do another as my tastes have changed through the years.
My favorite "dream" project is to stitch a small bag using silk gauze as
I've been very inspired by the colorful, handmade look of ethnic
arts....by antique bags made from fine seed beads and woven tapestries
that look like paintings which was another reason I chose to do
needlepoint in imitation of these painterly tapestries.
Any design stitched on fine silk gauze will create the look of a
stitched painting as the colors become softly blended by the fine
stitches.
After stitching whatever design I come up with, most likely influenced
by the bag mounting.
In my case, I'd mount my silk gauze "paintings" on a pair of lacey
looking carved bone handles.....lucky me has two sets of these
handles......one set features a stylized curly leafy pattern and my
favorite pair features intricate stylized florals with birds and leaves.
My other dream project is to needlepoint a vest and line it with a
brilliant contrasting color of Thai silk or a choice from my collection
of vintage brocade silks my late Mother gave me.
I also have a choice to use either regular needlepoint canvas which is
stiff or use a soft polyester canvas that Kreinik sells....think this
only comes in 18 mesh.
I've made quite a few decorative things with my needlepoint but love the
idea of stitching one of a kind wearables this time. That's probably
going to be my stitching project for 2003, to either do the vest or bag
or maybe both!!!
Interestingly, came across a quote by Confucious that said " Choose a
job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
That's exactly how I feel about my choice of career!
Happy Stitching,
Lula
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Karen C - California
writes:
>Interestingly, came across a quote by Confucious that said " Choose a
>job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
>That's exactly how I feel about my choice of career!
>
How true! My boss once commented on the fact that I would work 100 hours/7
days a week, and still come in smiling on Monday. Why not? I was having fun!
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WIP: Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe, Guide the Hands (2d
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Dianne Lewandowski
Last night I was looking through some needlework magazines and came
across a "Piecework" from May/June 2002. It featured the fiber art of
Annemieke Mein. A lot of machine work, but hand embroidery as well.
How I admire all of you who create such stunning works.
Keep us drooling, Lula. And let us know when you get your dream project
through so we can see them. :-)
Dianne
PaulaB
are truly an artist in a way I could never hope to be!
And yet, there are things I really would like to do - someday... I
would like to do a folding screen large enough to be a room divider,
four panels wide and maybe 5-1/2 to 6 feet tall. I would like each
panel to be a traditional sampler. Of course, to get them as large as
I would like I would have to work on a large-count linen (25 is about
as coarse as I am willing to go) and I don't know of any designs that
are out there that are this large that have four panels that are not
identical, but would coordinate enough to look good together. So
someday I will buy a design program (the computer is so much easier
than graph paper and pencil, I'm finding!) and get going on it. Maybe
when my youngest graduates from high school in 6 years! (Although we
do live in a college town and they just don't seem to want to
leave...) Thank you again for sharing, Lula. This was a wonderful
insight into how you perceive design and creativity! Paula B.
Lula <wooly...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<3E5544...@earthlink.net>...
Dedi Ragan
Heaven and Earth Designs is going to be releasing a number of Sheila
Wolk designs in the next 2-3 months. They are beautiful. Not the
usual fantasy items.
Not affiliated in any way with this new company, just a big fan of
their designs.
Deann
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Lara H
gaine...@yahoo.com (Dedi Ragan) wrote:
> Almost ready to realize at least one of my Dream Needlework Projects.
> Heaven and Earth Designs is going to be releasing a number of Sheila
> Wolk designs in the next 2-3 months. They are beautiful. Not the
> usual fantasy items.
Her work is amazing! It will be very interesting to see them translated to
needlearts. Are they going to be cross stitch?
lara
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Dedi Ragan
The URL for Heaven & Earth Designs is
http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com
They have pictures and are currently in the process of stitching some
of her items. They will be cross stitch. The lady who owned The
Blended Needle - Michelle is an owner of this company. I think there
are at least four designs that are supposed to be stitched and ready
for sale in April, 2003, according to site information. Sure hope they
make this date.
Dedi
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Lara H
can do cross stitch like this. Amazing. I simply love Metamorphosis!!!
> The URL for Heaven & Earth Designs is
> http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com
> They have pictures and are currently in the process of stitching some
> of her items. They will be cross stitch. The lady who owned The
> Blended Needle - Michelle is an owner of this company. I think there
> are at least four designs that are supposed to be stitched and ready
> for sale in April, 2003, according to site information. Sure hope they
> make this date.
>
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Lula
You give me lots of encouragement to follow through some of my ideas
with your words of support!
I went to the fabric shop to look for a simple vest pattern this
afternoon and couldn't find too many interesting ones and the couple of
patterns I settled on weren't available in the size I wanted!
Since i hadn't looked at patterns for several years, I was very
surprised to see how some of the pattern book formats had changed as
well thinking there aren't as many choices as in the past.
Somewhere in my piles of stash, there are a few vest patterns bought
years ago when I got my first urge to design a vest.....trouble is
finding these patterns......it's also possible to adapt a vest pattern
from a needlepoint book as well as draft up a simple vest pattern from
scratch.
Or, maybe I'll go to plan B and design another tote or the small silk
gauze bag.......then there's plan C and so on down the line.
Yes, I'm also enthralled with Annemieke Mein's embroidery work. It's
amazing the fine textile art this woman has been able to create with
needles and threads.
Have you seen the quilt paintings by Deirdre Scherer? (hope I got the
spelling right) She's a textile artist that creates fine art out of
ordinary fabrics. Well known for her realistic portraits using these
fabrics to create realistic shading and details.
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Lula
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Lula
After reading about your great idea creating your room divider, I was
reminded of one of my other ideas along the same lines except my "screen
panels" was on a much smaller scale.
I was inspired after reading an old folk tale from a book featuring
Italian folk tales about three weavers.....the gist of the story is a
King would marry this woman if she would spin some fanstasticly fine
yarn for him.....of course she couldn't do this and somehow three kind
elder ladies offered too help her.
As each of these dedicated spinners had spent their lives working with
each other, each one specializing in one part of the spinning process
which caused each spinner's body to adapt itself to its task.....to make
the story short....each spinner developed a grotesque deformity, way out
of proportion to each one's body, such as one spinner's lip hanging down
to her lap and another's thumb almost as big as her head.....when the
Prince saw this, he was horrified that constant spinning could cause the
beautiful woman he wanted to marry to develop the deformities......so he
declared he no longer wanted her to spin!
I was intriqued by this tale and wanted to embroider a triptych with
each panel to illustrating key scenes.....planned to use a palette of
mostly monochromatic wool colors on a fine textured off white linen to
create scenes filled with yarns, baskets, in the simple interiors as
background to the main figures......"drawing" all in a stylized woodcut
look.
Six years will go by before you know it Paula.......then you'll have
time to create your masterpiece! Waiting for kids to finish school and
move on with their lives was one of the reasons I had to put off my
dream projects too!
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Lula
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Lula
I forgot to mention this as you wrote about using sampler
motifs.......are you familiar with some of Ralph Lauren's older designs
where he featured antique sampler designs on sweaters?
The sweaters were quite charming and unique for the time as no one else
had ever used large sampler motifs as a design for wearables.
I've also seen large afghans using antique sampler motifs with very
beautiful results! Knowing how you love stitching samplers, I'm sure
you'll find a way to accomplish your "dream project"!!
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Lula
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needl...@comcast.net
going to look stitched "over two" on 28 count fabric? I would think that
the only way to come near the "picture" quality that we see on the site, is
to do them "over one) on 28 ct fabric... I Model Stitch for Michele and so
know that she really likes "over one" stitching but my comment here, and
also to her was, Is there really a large stitching audience out there to
make it profitable to offer "Over One" stitching projects? I'm doing an
"over one" now for her and am enjoying it and I know two or three others who
do "over one" by preference but are there that many XS'ers that Stitch "Over
One"? Personally I would love to hear the answer to that from anyone who
has stitched "over one".... Maybe this would be a could forum for the
answers... BTW, ALL Michele's www.heavenandearthdesigns.com designs are
beautiful... But then I might be a shade predjudice in this regards as a
Model Stitcher for her...
Marc
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clancy
project over one - the old eyes just wouldn't last I'm sure. Anything I've
seen done over one is gorgeous tho'.
Sharon (N.B.)
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PaulaB
> going to look stitched "over two" on 28 count fabric? I would think that
> the only way to come near the "picture" quality that we see on the site, is
> to do them "over one) on 28 ct fabric... I Model Stitch for Michele and so
> know that she really likes "over one" stitching but my comment here, and
> also to her was, Is there really a large stitching audience out there to
> make it profitable to offer "Over One" stitching projects? I'm doing an
> "over one" now for her and am enjoying it and I know two or three others who
> do "over one" by preference but are there that many XS'ers that Stitch "Over
> One"? Personally I would love to hear the answer to that from anyone who
> has stitched "over one".... Maybe this would be a could forum for the
> answers... BTW, ALL Michele's www.heavenandearthdesigns.com designs are
> beautiful... But then I might be a shade predjudice in this regards as a
> Model Stitcher for her...
>
> Marc
Yes, there are lots of over one fans out there! Just ask all of
Maureen Appleton's fans what they think of over one - that's all she
does! Her company is Heart's Content and she has a lovely website...
http://www.theheartscontent.com/
Paula B.
PaulaB
How interesting! A tryptich sounds really lovely. All those colors,
all those stitches, all those characters...spinning wheels, handsome
princes, and those old ladies...
And in reading your other post about vests, I have often thought I
would buy a vest pattern, baste the pattern lines on some linen, and
start stitching so I ended up with a sampler vest. Needless to say, I
haven't had time to do that one, either! Someday, I will! My goal
for this year is to get my EGA Master Craftsman step two in counted
thread done. One thing! (But of course, all these other projects
keep raising their heads...) Thanks so much for sharing. Your posts
are inspirational! Paula B.
georg
http://www.lsh.se/livrustkammaren/press/Klarbild/Modelejon/T4386_.jpg
Of course the other problem is finding someone to *wear* it.
-georg
Dianne Lewandowski
that came through, I knew this one was going to be worth the "wait".
WOW! I'd wear it, Georg! :-)
I have been wanting to create a jacket with lots of embroidery on it,
but know how long it will take and quickly lose my ambition. :-)
Dianne
georg
codpiece... the whole 16th cent outfit. I have a couple other pictures
like that online, and a few other sources for research... but I know my
skills aren't up to it yet.
-georg
Lula
I agree with Dianne, I'd wear this beautiful masterpiece of embroidered
clothing! It would be a stunner worn in this day and age!
There wouldn't be a problem finding a person to wear an article of
clothing as beautiful as this.
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Lula
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Cyn
Now that's a dream project!!! And I'd wear it!! There's gotta be a feast
or two that I could wear it to around here. :) I'd even do a bit of
travelling to show it off. :)
Cyn
Brenda Lewis
it hard to find someone to wear it. I don't have enough extra scissors
to work with that much metal. ;-) I would love to see the finished item
up close. Good luck with your dream, georg!
georg wrote:
> Here's my dream needlework project, or something like it:
> http://www.lsh.se/livrustkammaren/press/Klarbild/Modelejon/T4386_.jpg
> Of course the other problem is finding someone to *wear* it.
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WIP: Dimensions "Blessed Nativity Sampler" ccs (only bs left!)
Mill Hill "Cameo Heart" ccs/bead
J & P Coats "Dancing Snoopy" latchhook
UFOs: Too numerous to list...
Teri George
wrote:
>I've always loved to create art and overall didn't care what medium I'm
>using as long as it allows me to draw or illustrate the imaginative
>pictures in my mind.
Always great to see you post, dear friend!
Lula, I don't know if it's your wonderful prose or the dreams that you
carry in your head but your posts always leave me feeling "hungry,"
like there's something I want but it's just out of reach.
Teri ~~ Secure online shopping now available
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Teri George
Whoa! Well, if you were Prince or *a* prince you might be able to
wear that.
Talk about a fancy dress ball!
Kim McAnnally
whole design like that!
Kim
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Lula
I like what you wrote, very insightful and so very true for us designers
and all others who like to create beautiful things.
Despite years of designing and illustrating, I always feel "hungry" for
more as well as feeling there's something I want to create that's "just
out of reach"! In my opinion, that's a good way to be as it helps one
grow artistically chasing that elusive quality.
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Lula
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