Both the pieces were worked in hand rather than with a hoop or frame. That allowed the stitches to be a little uneven and not so precise. This first one, particularly, would be deadly boring if it had been stitched firmly and tightly.
As Jordan is devoted to hiking and camping, especially along the Appalachian Trail, the mountains are for him:
Although there is only one stitch used, there is a variety of textures and color in the thread and little scraps of fabric that lie under the undulations of the mountains, all of them from my dyeing in the garage this past summer and fall. The smallest scrap of fabric can be such an interesting thing to work with. The sky is an overlay of cotton organdy that was bundled and rusted several years ago, and the linen that is the base fabric was a dinner napkin, splashed with color. The scraps of cotton and linen that are the mountains and valleys lie on top of these two pieces.
Below is the piece for Julie, also worked in hand. Is it an act of redundancy to give an English woman a garden piece? I hope not. Here I added beads to the mix of hand-colored materials. This piece was not held to only one stitch as the mountains were, but a garden would be a little more riotous, even uncontrolled, wouldn't it? The blocks of layered cloth make this quite textured, and by continuing to stitch around the side to the edge of the cloth, the energy of the garden (as with the mountain piece) wraps around and to the back of the frame. The truth was that I was having too much fun stitching this to let a little thing like the parameters of the frame stop me.
Best Christmas and New Year's wishes, dear family!
2 comments:
These are AMAZING Nancy! Simply beautiful.
Thank you!
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