Mabel's designs - closed thread

[Squirrel]

Welcome to the Forum "Forever Frosty" and I love the fringe on his scarf. Just the right finishing touch Mabel.

[Podolyanka]

I love him as he is- the design is exactly what I imagine when I hear the word "snowman". He will be stunning when he is stitched. Very well done, Mabel.

[kingfisher2]

Love the snowman's scarf fringe Mabel, another great idea of yours Also like the name you have given him. If you designed a Mrs. Forever Frosty you could also add two Forever Frosty babies - a boy & a girl of course. In fact you could make a few other Frosty family relatives - the Polar Frosty cousins who live near the North Pole!

(You'll probably be glad to hear I'm busy for a few days so won't be posting much! )

[Garnet]

Ooooh, loving the snowman's fringed scarf.

Did I read you may design a penguin? We love penguins at Christmas in our house.

Have you got enough ideas to keep you busy yet

[Mabel Figworthy]

The penguin was mentioned by someone else, actually, but who knows

[Serinde]

Love the snowman's scarf fringe Mabel, another great idea of yours Also like the name you have given him. If you designed a Mrs. Forever Frosty you could also add two Forever Frosty babies - a boy & a girl of course. In fact you could make a few other Frosty family relatives - the Polar Frosty cousins who live near the North Pole!

I think this is a wonderful idea. You could, indeed, have almost an entire world of Forever Frosties, with the addition of national colours or emblems. (You might need to leave out the equatorial nations where snow never falls, alas.) I should say that my village had the pleasure of several Polish gentlemen, former Polish army, who settled down here. As they lived at opposite sides of the village, they were generally known as the North Pole and the South Pole. (I think that's Scottish humour...)

[Mabel Figworthy]

I should say that my village had the pleasure of several Polish gentlemen, former Polish army, who settled down here. As they lived at opposite sides of the village, they were generally known as the North Pole and the South Pole. (I think that's Scottish humour...)

[Mabel Figworthy]

Copyright can be a minefield, so I bounced this idea off Mary Corbet and others on her FB group. This is what I wrote:

" I recently completed a silk & gold flower based on a Kelly Fletcher freebie. As you will see from the picture below, I used the outline/drawing of her design but then did my own thing choosing materials and stitches, adding some leaves and choosing to fill the petals but void the insides.

Now I quite realise that the copyright of that design is Kelly Fletcher's now and forever. However, I really do like my version of it and would like to do my own design using these colours and stitches and materials. The question is, how different does that flower need to be to make sure I don't fall foul of copyright regulations? (And not just the regulations - I want it to be morally as well as legally OK.)

Below is a strip of four images, from left to right: Kelly Fletcher's original, my silk & gold version of it, a line drawing of my proposed flower, and a coloured-in mock-up of my proposed flower.

In your opinion, is the new flower my design? In other words, is the fourth image different enough from the first?"

Fortunately, Mary and all others who commented thought it was - so Soli Deo Gloria (I'll explain why I chose that name some other time) will eventually make it to my website.

[poppy]

It is definitively different in my humble opinion...

[Squirrel]

Very different Mabel and I am so glad it will be seen and used by others in due course.

[kingfisher2]

It was me who said I love snowmen & penguins at Christmas like many other people.

As mentioned in by SAL, some penguin designs in M Sherry booklet I have. May do them for Xmas cards later on in the year. BUT I would love to see you design a penguin or two Mabel. Yours designs are very different from Margaret Sherry's & always very attractive & appealing.

Your flower is gorgeous & it looks different to the others. I am sure it will be popular & stitched many times

[Mabel Figworthy]

Finally finished (so now I can make a start on Frosty and the lamb ) - I like to have a minimum of three stitched models when I teach 12 people, and they're all done now. This is the third version of the bee, and it's the one I'm going with, in copper and gold wire check.

[kingfisher2]

OMG that bee is amazing!! Love the whole card but the bee is just gorgeous. Very well done on another of your colourful & appealing designs

[Mabel Figworthy]

I've just realised he looks humongous in close-up - in fact he is only 1.8 x 1.3cm.

[mags]

Gorgeous !!

[Squirrel]

Another awesome design completed. You are totally amazing Mabel.

[wendywombat]

Another awesome design completed. You are totally amazing Mabel.

Exactly!!

[Garnet]

Oh that is lovely.

It's so elegant and that bee is fantastic.

Your students are going to be in for a treat.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Having enjoyed the BBC documentary about medieval Eglish embroidery I wanted to do something in split stitch; I was having a look at sunflowers at the time, so I drew one and decided the split stitch would make a good centre.

It takes absolutely forever! (This was very clear in the documentary as well.) But I do like the effect, especially how the angle of looking at it changes the colour, as I've tried to show in the second double-pic - the arrow points to more or less the same place, but it looks dark in the left-hand one and light in the right-hand one. Magic

[wendywombat]

WOW!!! Worth the trouble and time I think!!
Another heirloom to watch grow methinks!

I've used French Knots with variegated threads for the centre of a sunflower. Also tedious, but effective.