Photo taken at Brimham Rocks near Pately Bridge
Watercolour pencil sketch washed with water to blend the colours. Mary is much better at this type of thing than me. She did some wonderful paintings based on her photos of National Parks in the USA and very generously talked me through her method. I'll have to practise!
I painted paper with watercolours then tore them up and arranged them for this collage piece. I may draw some details on this later.
On Sunday we mainly worked on stitch samples for our machine embroidery module. Our tutor encouraged us to have a go at stitching with automatic machine stitches onto textured card which we'd coloured with wax crayon. Then we cut it up and pieced it with some painted cotton rag paper she'd brought along. Here's my 'crazy quilt'.
I was really pleased with this! I actually only used one feather stitch for the decoration on this (number 49 on my Bernina 440) but varied the length and width and used a variety of threads. I'll have to mount it on another paper as all our samples have to be the same size for this module. We have to make 3 samples to show how we have experimented with a single automatic stitch so I did start another piece using fabric. I'll show that when it's done.
The collage is really effective - would look lovely as a landscape quilt.
ReplyDeleteWas thinking of you this afternoon as I decided to work on another crazy patchwork (I know how much you love it!) piece called 'Crazy Recycling' made out of bits of old shirts. Will post on my blog when I get it done.
Hmm, I KNEW I wasn't doing this type of course for a good reason. Lovely views though.
ReplyDeleteI love the photo showing Rombalds Moor [top photo], you can see the moor from my kitchen, not that I spend much time in there - if I can help it!!!!! If you walk up onto the moor - you can walk along what was a roman road which takes you over to Addingham.
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