Finished It Friday : )

Wow.  Do I ever feel like I've accomplished things this week.  I feel ahead of the game regarding deadlines (knock on wood!).  I did not love the 'Fields of Gold' that I made for a commission, so I started up another simple autumn scene.  The colors are much more subtle, based on a photo I took on the way to Beaver Creek.

auditioning fibres

It was the end of summer and there were Prairie Coneflowers growing by the roadside.  I stayed up all night adding the hand stitching to it.  I loved every stitch.

It looks quite stunning in the frame I have at home.  That was the problem with the other one.  I didn't love the color scheme.  This one was an after-thought and I really love it.  It makes me happy.

Roadside, 2013  (actual size)

I matted all my other work and dropped it all off to be framed.  (!!!)  We picked some really pretty frames!  I can't wait to see them all once they are back.  Before I headed out, I was sure to take high res photos of each one.  SO... since you told me this is not boring, here they all are once again.  : )

September Grasses, 2013

Fields at Floral Road 2, 2013

Autumn Blonde, 2013

Hills at Jackfish, 2013

Yay!  Now off to the Quilt Show I go!  I'll be the woman with the red shopping cart.  hehe

Threadpainting Autumn Blonde

Happy Autumn!  It's official.  The Equinox came and went.  It sure is pretty out there!

Remember when I had a show at my mom's lakehouse this past summer?  I had some sketchbooks of mine set out on one table to show the process I take for the people coming to see me art.  One photo in particular really grabbed one of the women.  "If you make that, I want it!" she said.  Yesterday I started...

the original photo I took last fall

this is the 6x6" background and the plans I had done beside the photo in my sketchbook

I pick out thread colors like a painter would prepare paint.

I lay down some thread using free motion sewing on my little machine

I am finished the free machine work

Now the 'pretty' starts:  I add rosehips, leaves, and more grasses by hand.  Detail.  Detail.

FINISHED!

threads cleaned up, edges finished.  Work Complete! 

Are you wowed!?  I am wowed.  I did this in all day, all night, and all morning... now I am done.  I am thrilled. I wish you could see some of the sheen in the heavier blonde grasses that I stitched by hand.  It really glows.  It's beautiful!  Off to the framer's I go...

: )))
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