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Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 10:45 am
by wendywombat
It might be "same old Wildflower" but it still looks wonderful on different fabrics!
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:40 pm
by Serinde
I agree, WW.
I like the white fabric, myself, despite being a bit stark, perhaps.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:26 pm
by rcperryls
Amazing how the same design, same colors and threads can look different when the fabric is a different color as well as a different type. This design is beautiful on both. I'm another who especially likes the blue background.
Carole
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:16 am
by kingfisher68(2)
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:27 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
One more mug, the smaller of the two, and I did a few things differently (FoF to follow
), most noticeably I managed to get the steam to curl "out of" the card.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:09 pm
by wendywombat
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:07 pm
by Squirrel
Very clever with the steam and it looks great.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 4:35 pm
by rcperryls
That steam is so good!! Makes the cup of tea (I assume it's tea) seem real!
Carole
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 5:06 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, or anything you like
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:47 pm
by poppy
Beautiful card, the steam is brilliant.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:24 am
by kingfisher68(2)
I agree, great way to show steam, lovely card
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:22 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Back to my Tree of Life leaf experiments! This one is worked in detached buttonhole stitch; I first tried that on a doodle cloth in perle, and in that the texture showed up much more clearly. Here it's all a bit fuzzy and melts into each other. Still, it looks pleasant enough.
The original idea was to outline it in dark stem stitch, but I decided against that, as I thought it would look too prominent. If I had thought of it before, I would have worked a medium-coloured split stitch outline first, and worked the buttonhole over it. But I'm not going to unpick it all! so the split stitch outline will be tried out when I work this leaf in Ceylon stitch.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:53 am
by Squirrel
You are a wonder Mabel with all these different stitches and ways to do leaves. I love this latest one.
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:39 am
by Podolyanka
To me you also are a wonder, Mabel. In the best meaning of the word. You turn simple things into masterpieces. I always look forward to new designs from you. Happy stitching!
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:49 am
by Lulu22
I've just been catching up with your designs Mabel, you are so talented they are all beautiful and inspirational
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:45 am
by wendywombat
Another splendid experiment....what a wonderful way to make a sample of stitches!
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:10 am
by Mabel Figworthy
The whole tree is going to be a sort of sampler, that's true. Although how I'm going to decide which ones actually to use
I may have to do several trees...
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 4:14 pm
by rcperryls
Podolyanka wrote:To me you also are a wonder, Mabel. In the best meaning of the word. You turn simple things into masterpieces. I always look forward to new designs from you. Happy stitching!
I couldn't agree more!!!!
Carole
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:00 pm
by poppy
I think your leaf is really beautiful: I love the look, texture and intricate stitches. I agree with the others, you are a wonder, Mabel
Re: Mabel's designs
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:31 am
by Mabel Figworthy
I'd been meaning to pick the threads and wires for this over the Christmas break, but did it happen? Nah. So here's hoping for this weekend. A chance remark by Podolyanka about stitching a whole outfit in goldwork to match the boot I did recently gave me a thought about parasols or umbrellas, and as it happens I've ended up with one of each
Here they are on their fabrics, the umbrella to be done in silver and the parasol in gold. Both will also have a bit of appliqué. Not much to see so far but I thought I'd show it from the beginning. If anyone is interested in the design process behind it, I wrote a bit about that on
FoF.