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| Poppy seedheads, originally from school garden |
Looking back, I notice that there is a poppy post almost every year around this time. It seems I can't help myself. The colours, the delicate shape.
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| More poppies, West Ham allotments |
The instructions for this afternoon's "refresh your wardrobe" embroidery workshop at Fabrications said to look around for inspiration and images before we turned up. That was easy enough, then.
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| Machine embroidered poppies, back garden |
Poppies all year round now, from seed to flower in two and a half hours.
Materials: Dull black skirt, charity shop; rough cut scraps of silk tie fabric; orange and purple cotton thread; sewing machine with darning foot; expert guidance and rapid rescue from Laura Lees of the Mighty Stitch; sweet company of other women; bananas for sustenance from Gemma. (Shoes and other accessories, model's own.)
5 comments:
Looks fantastic, you talented thing you!
Karen
Karen - it was so simple to do, once you built up some confidence in using the darning foot. And Laura's style was very encouraging - just get on with it and if it's not perfect, all the better. She did help out with some of the techniques too.
Love the contrast with the black :D There's a sort of moment isn't there when suddenly 'drawing' with the needle makes sense.
Wonderful . And the silk sings on the black !!
I'm also very taken with the model's shoes , I have to say .
Poppies have featured in all three gardens we've had. You did a great job refreshing your skirt. (Darning foot??? I'm impressed.)
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