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Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:11 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Woohoo! A bit of progress - some leaves, a yellow smudge, and
finally a start on the green jumble
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:44 am
by Serinde
The texture is amazing!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:47 pm
by fccs
Serinde wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:44 am
The texture is amazing!
I agree!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:27 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
A bit more progress - and a lasso to keep the Turkey rug bushes in check!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:42 am
by fccs
The flowers look amazing!!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:24 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Managed two leaves and some yellow tulips in preparation for tomorrow's class
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:02 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Lexi inspects the progress I made in class:
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:32 am
by Mabel Figworthy
No homework done in between classes at all (life, eh?) but I nearly completed the pavement while at my class. It was slow going because it contains 9 different blends of colours, and I miscounted in one place so had to unpick and re-stitch
but I'm happy with the way it interprets the photo!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:40 am
by Steam.Jo
And it looks good. I love the way the colours and the offset of starting the stitches make the pavement look like it is made of slabs
Jo
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 8:37 am
by Serinde
Good work, Mabel!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:06 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
A little progress, and a
FoF!
A poor squashed tulip has been inflated to its full height, some of the paving has been spruced up and a new bit of paving has been added.
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:33 am
by Serinde
I just love the colour combinations. From a distance, they will look so true to life. The pavement texture is also very interesting. Looks simpler than I'm sure it must be to execute.
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:03 am
by Mabel Figworthy
The stitch itself is easy enough - it's the constantly changing blends that make it so labour-intensive. Sometimes I'm lucky to do two or three stitches in the same blend, and I think the total different blends is now over 10
. It makes it impossible to get into a rhythm, which is what you want to get them nice and even. Still, a good laying tool definitely helps.
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:17 am
by Steam.Jo
Welcome to the wonderful world of split threads Mabel
my TW Woodland Fairy has 90 of them
Jo
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:32 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Ha, I'm getting quite good at them as pretty much every bit of this blinking canvas is covered in blends of some sort, some of them made up of three or four colours. After this I am going to do something with blocks of solid colour!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2024 4:56 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
I was getting quite despondent about my canvaswork as I've been working on it, off and on, for 3 years now; but then I looked through my photographs and compared my "overview" pic after April's class with the one taken after last weekend's class, and suddenly I realise that there is progress!
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:13 am
by Serinde
Lots of progress! And it does look increasingly impressive, Mabel.
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 10:00 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Sampling tree trunks and the use of rice stitch to represent airy foliage against a blue sky:
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2024 8:09 am
by Serinde
What an interesting stitch to use with a combination of colours. Gives a lot of texture.
Re: Mabel's RSN Certificate - canvas
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2024 1:03 pm
by Roland
Your tulips are so lovely. Interesting stitch to do the foliage.