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Day one of my blog, please be kind!
I have done some kind of stitchery all my
life. It seems as though I can never get enough of it. I keep
researching on the internet to find some kind of new form of
stitching that has come out on the market. Along the way I have found that
texture is what really pops my interest and really has pushed me into
designing. I discovered wool fabric a few years back and found that it is
beautiful to applique with. It is sometimes challenging to put marks on
for detail work like a face, hair or words, but that just makes me work harder
to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish in my final product. In the last
few months I have been designing pieces that combine my love for wool fabric,
embroidery, and needle punch. What better way to bring texture into my
work of art. I have a dream to be able to have a business in which I create
designs for sell and I teach people how to bring a piece of artwork to life.
I have a passion for needle work and I want to share it. I love the
thought of bringing women together to become friends and to get away from the
everyday grind we must endure, but also to discover how piece of work can
evolve into a something beautiful.
This first piece I have pictured here is
my first drawn piece and only my second punched piece. I discovered with
it that I need to be able to learn to move my punch needle in a way that would
give motion to the piece. I discovered that doing lettering is more
difficult than I thought in needle punch. The red lettering passing through the
brown tree trunk disappeared and the lettering through the leaves are too busy
looking and get lost. If the saying is important enough to say, it needs
to be standing out to be noticed. This needle piece just had drawn ideas
that I like, but didn't have good placement for the ideas. Sometimes these
lessons aren't learned until after we punch them and see the
results.
In this blog I intend to show steps that I
pain stakingly take to create pieces of art. I
intend to learn how to combine several art forms of stitchery together to bring
a piece alive.
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