Surface work

Oh, thanks for posting this. My now closed (sigh) LNS brought in a few of these kits, and they looked terrific. I really love the ones with the families--some have a pig, some have a goat, and some have a hippo! Dawne

Are you by chance replying to older posts that may have expired for some of us? I'm curious about what you've written (my primary needlework interest is surface work), but have no idea what you're replying to since you didn't include any of the original post ...

This: (posted by lewmew through googlegroups) :So here's one I forgot about and have probably posted before, but :since it's so fun, I thought I would pass it along again: : :

particularly like some of these: : what Dawne is responding to. It was posted just over an hourbefore she posted.

(this is why quoting from the message you're responding to is a good idea).

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler

I enjoy surface work , but not oin it`s own , it usually `surfaces` in my work amongst other techniques ,,, I Sketch the wanted form on a page and than start embroidering . mirjam

No. Dawne

Thanks very much for your helpful reply. As it turns out, LewMews' original post to this thread has never shown up in my newsreader (and I don't have any filters on this group).

This is going to sound like I have been on a bookbuying spree--but another interesting book is Doodle-Stitching by Aimee Ray. The whole book is about opening possibilities. There are good stitch directions that would have been useful when I was starting out, and suggestions about how the stitches can be used. The designs are derivied from hand drawn "doodles", which liberates new stitchers from the idea that you must have a pattern or a transfer. And the projects really open possibilities---embroidering on clothes, shoes, and lampshades, making lapquilts, I-Pod bags and headbands. This would be great for a young stitcher, but is a nice fresh creative jolt for others too. Dawne

Thank you for this post , i never saw this name of book or the writer , i make my own surface embroidery. Lately i had a lady who came for advice on this subject , she had an idea , but couldn`t work it out , i gave her several excercizes to be able to make her OWN surface work ..

1 enlarge a photo she took /take a thin math paper , lay photo under math paper hold it on a glass window and trace the lines that interest her . Than she could use this as her pattern for embroidery [ math squares made it easier to decided which stichh yo use on each part. 2 use a Part of a Famousd classical painting ,, choose a part and work only with the COLOURS she can find in that part on a series of ovals / triangles she prepared with sewing thread ,,,,, mirjam

Mirjam wrote

Thank you for this post , i never saw this name of book or the writer , i make my own surface embroidery. Lately i had a lady who came for advice on this subject , she had an idea , but couldn`t work it out , i gave her several excercizes to be able to make her OWN surface work ..

1 enlarge a photo she took /take a thin math paper , lay photo under math paper hold it on a glass window and trace the lines that interest her .

Here's a link

designs really could begin as doodles, the kind of thing you would draw in the margins of a notebook, really unintimidating for people beginning to think of putting their own ideas on fabric.Dawne

In the Applique +embroidery work i am now doing i use Letters [and words] as forms , that will also be it`s own image . mirjam

Ah! but some people don't doodle.

I think too the problem is some people think their drawing has to be 'perfect'. I'm stitching ribbon daisies at present. All one needs to be able to draw is a circle. Dora Ok. I think I've done my posting duty/mischief. Back to work.

Some days ago i was waiting somewhere and [crewel] embroidered around my applique forms. Woman turned to me and asked if it was meant to be a curtain, I explained it is a Fiberart work. She was rather faciated by the idea that Art could be embroidered not drawn .... mirjam