For the last few weeks I have been stitching on three little 3" square Iceland Poppies entitled Poppy Trio. This trio will be offered at the 2014 ANG Seminar. Of course they took me longer than I had planned....but each flower needed to be handled a little differently. The designs all begin with a transfer design created from an original water sketch which is then ironed onto the canvas. The background stitching is all very open and chosen to show off the "sketched" flowers. I also tried different border ideas and ways of stitching the flower centers so students will have stitching options.
I was happy to finally get them to the framer today and we decided to use the same frame and matting for each, but they would also look nice all framed together.
My next few projects will be a series of three small geometric designs, approximately 5 inches square. They will be primarilty stitched with some new Treenway silk threads. The first design's planned completion date is November 1st, so look for an update in mid September.
Terry