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Serinde wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2024 8:09 am What an interesting stitch to use with a combination of colours. Gives a lot of texture.

The challenge was to create airy foliage without "cheating" by stitching it on top of solid sky - you are allowed a certain amount of stitching-over-the-top, and in fact some of the smaller tulips will be ribbon lazy daisies worked over the top of the paving, but on the whole the brief is to recreate texture and colour changes within the stitches.
It does make for quite slooooow stitching....

Mabel Figworthy wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2024 2:11 pm The challenge was to create airy foliage without "cheating" by stitching it on top of solid sky - you are allowed a certain amount of stitching-over-the-top, and in fact some of the smaller tulips will be ribbon lazy daisies worked over the top of the paving, but on the whole the brief is to recreate texture and colour changes within the stitches.
It does make for quite slooooow stitching....

Guess so, but very, very effective.

Slow but steady!

It is beautiful

During my July class I did a lot of sampling and only a bit on the proper canvas - and then I forgot to take my usual overview pic. So to encourage myself I'm comparing just-before-last-class with where I am one week before my next class. It's growing!

Love it and it looks like you are over half way so it is all down hill from now onwards.

Jo

Not managed the ribbon tulips, but I did finally complete the green jumble just in time for tomorrow's class!

Well done! Almost feels like the trickiest bits are finished, although I would guess that's not so.

Well, some of the stitching on the mill is in fairly chunky thread so that should grow relatively quickly, and the sky fortunately doesn't have as much blending in it as the green (although there will be some plus a transition between three types of stitch) so I'm hoping things will speed up a bit now! The trees do have quite a lot of blending, they are done in a sort of "painterly" way - look at the picture I'm emulating and choose my threads accordingly as I go.

I thought you were very brave to cut the "green jumble", assuming it was that sort of stitch, naturally. How did your day go? Hope your tutor was supportive and helpful.

She was, she said I ought to be very pleased with how the green had come out! I did some sampling and managed a hedge and a bit of mill, with about four unpickings-and-restitchings and having to start with a fresh thread every time because it's a very soft thread and unpicking shreds it - oh well. No stitching time today but I hope to frame the shadow work when we're back from church plus outing-with-grandchildren, and next weekend it's the ribbon tulips so that the bottom half is really completely DONE

Here it is after class - the picture, by the way, is taller than the stitching, it was printed at the wrong size but I use it for colour reference.

It's beautiful!

The bottom half of my canvaswork is now truly complete!!!!!!

I love the way that some of the stitches are in the background and the others overlap them bringing them so far to the foreground

I am learning a lot here

Jo

A few trunks added and that has to be it for a while, as I have to concentrate on some deadlines. I've written a bit more about the whole stitching process of the last couple of months in FoF

A bit more progress (the mill more visible, the teeny stitches on the tree much less so...)

A little more progress - the tree on the right is finished, I've added some details to the mill, there's another bush on the left and I have finally started on the sky!

This is so pretty, a true work of art! I love watching it grow.

The right-hand tree is now fully encased in sky, and I've done some structural work on the mill gallery and cap; a bit of tweaking required, but happy on the whole!