This project was a gift for my daughter.
I made this picture in Unit 2 with my dyed fabrics and yarns and Catherine liked the colours.
These colours were popular when I had my craft stall and I sold both pictures in these shades!
I decided to make a picture using the same fabrics and yarns but also incorporated my new skills!
This picture was also bigger, 9 inch square.
I began by backing a variety of my fabrics with Bondaweb, then cut out circles....
I also plaited, corded and wove yarns to add variation in colour and texture...
...next came the positioning of all 55 circles!
This took a while....
Corded yarn circle...
..woven (middle right)
...darker circle on the left is plaited and couched yarn...
..when all were in place I ironed remembering to use baking parchment..
..next came the free stitching and I did it in stages as it took quite a while!
I used a variety of threads including my variegated and some beautiful silk thread, matching the shades with the various fabrics.
First I machined around the overlapping circles in satin stitch, I think this took about 4 hours in all!
Then I just had fun using all the stitches I had been practising over the last few months, straight, zigzag, granite spirals. It was great to see the picture come alive!
This also took about 4 hours as I did it in stages.
When I came to mount my creation the backing fabric showed at the edges even though I had made the picture larger than the aperture! Again the dense machining had reduced the size of the backing fabric....
so I shaded in around the edges with straight stitch and variegated thread- problem solved and another lesson learned!
The colour in my photos isn't very good as the natural light was very poor!!
Just 2 more secret projects to reveal then back to creating my extended samples!!
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