When you go, your footprints will fill with grass. Moss shall cover your tombstone, and as the sun rises, green shall spread over all, in all its shades and hues. This verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements and, try as you might, all you hold dear will succumb to it. Your skin, your bones. Your virtue - The Green Knight 2021
Portrait of Dev Patel in his role as Gawain in The Green Knight. Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on Cotton. 17 inches diameter.
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😮💨 I work at this for hours and then feel like I have little to show for it. This piece is stressing me out but I am happy with the middle of his face at least.
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Embroidery updates : a cat in needle painting !
About a month ago, I finished this project of a cat in a hoop, needle-painted, and gifted it to a colleague at her retirement party. It was my 1st time using this technique, and I think the result is pretty good.
This project started about a year ago, with me wanting to learn this technique... and not really having an end goal for it lol. So I bought Hiroko Kubota's book : Embroidered Cat in My Pocket (the French version is Brode un chat dans ta poche, at Les Éditions de Saxe). And I just started slow, not knowing where I was going. Here are some creepy photos of a cat without eyes (the quality is not ideal but I don't have any other photos of the WIP) :
Then later in the year, my dear colleague announced she was leaving, and suddenly I had the best idea ever : why not gift it to her, since she likes cats and has an artistic mind ? This meant, of course, that I could no longer dilly-dally, and so I finished just in time for her retirement party. (And yes, I worked on the Laudna blouse in parallel, the summer was very complicated guys)
I didn't know how to finish it properly on the back, so I watched a bunch of Youtube videos, cut the fabric very close, glued it on the hoop with clothespins to keep it in place, and cut a cardboard circle and glued it on the hoop on the back.
My colleague loved it.
More details under the cut !
The posture is maybe leaning a little bit too much to the right, but once I started, there's nothing I could have done.
The colours on the ears are a little weird (the darker colours should be on the inside, not on the outside) and that's because the book used Olympus thread - that I cannot find here in France easily - and give a chart for DMC threads equivalency... and the chart is not very well done. Some colours are not the same at all, including the ones I used on the ears. But I started by the ears, and again, once you're in, you're in !
I'm mostly proud of the general fading of the colours, especially on the body, and I think I managed to give to this project the texture desired : like a cat's fur !
It was a good intro to this technique (oh yeah btw : 1 strand only, with size 10 embroidery needle, a combination of long and short basic stitches, except for the whiskers that are done in split stitch). And I will continue to use the book and the things I've learned, but also coming back to traditionnal embroidery... because yes, needle-painting is great, but it takes so much time !!
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I still need to colour in the #goblin and make sure that all the spaces on the treasure pile are filled with #buttons. I wanted to show a WIP. . I'm a beginner at #embroidery, but I'm really enjoying going full #goblincore with all the buttons on this one. . . . . . . . . #art #threadart #threadpainting #modernembroidery #embroideryart #threadartist #threadartwork #goblins #button #embroiderersofinstagram #threadwork #sewing (at Manchester, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp93eaeIZXv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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This was a commission for a friend as a gift for her husband. This was one of my favorite projects to date.
This is entirely hand embroidered, since thread DMC floss, in a technique called threadpainting.
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Once upon a hoop . . . . . . . . . #embroidery #embroideryart #needlepainting #needlepaintingembroidery #threadpainting #broderie #peinturealaiguille #broderiemain #stitchersofinstagram #embroiderydesign #embroideryartist #floralembroidery #flower #nature #natureillustration #satinstitch #wreath #pansy #threadart #sewingproject #sewing #wyszywanie #wyszywaniereczne #szydełko #artistsoninstagram #art #illustration #artforsale #cottagecore #handmadeuk https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzxPpVLSDb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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I love to blend my colours in thread painting either harmonious colours such as the greens in this apple project or contrasting and complementary such as the greens with the reds. Apple project for a previous edition of @stitch_magazine. . . . #threadpaintingartist #needlepainting #needlepaintingembroidery #silkshadingembroidery #silkshading #longandshortstitch #threadpaintings #threadpainting #ihavethisthingwithcolor #appleembroidery #embroiderydesigns #embroideredartwork #embroiderybook #needlepaintingtutorial #embroiderybooks #embroiderytutorial #handmadeembroidery #stitchwithme #embroiderwithme #paintingwiththreads #wipembroidery #textileartist #appleart #threadwork #markmakingwiththread #threadembroidery https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSMZhqNTt5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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