Pear Duet

Pear Duet is finally finished and off to the framer!! This finishes up new designs for 2013.  I am taking a week or two off from stitching and then I will begin work on 2014 designs.  I have rough sketches, thread samples, beads, and lots of tabbed pages at the ready.  It is always fun to see what actually emerges.  

But now it is time to collect everything that needs to travel with me to the ANG 40th anniversary seminar in Philadelphia.  I hope to see each of you there.  Have fun!

Proposal Sketches

I shipped off proposal packages for two new designs I have been working on.....shown previously here.  As these designs are only partially stitched I needed to "fill in the blanks" by adding pen ink and watercolor to illustrate the finished design.

Here is Summer Garden Collage................It is approximately 7" square.

And here is Tiebele Nights.........the final name given to the African design.  It is approximately 5 " square without an outer border. This design might appear to be almost finished but I cut and pasted all the finished parts to collage the "finished project".  

I will be finishing the stitching on both of these over the next several months and will post a few updates.  It is always interesting to see how close the finished design compares to the sketch.  

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Summer Garden Collage

It has been 2-1/2 months since I last posted an update...way too long.  Time certainly seems to fly once Halloween arrives.  I have gotten far enough along on Summer Garden Collage to post a photo.  I still have to add beads in several places (particularly the flower center).  There will be ribbon flowers in the two remaining areas and one more geometric pattern in the final  empty one.  I will stitch the two wide borders again on the remaining two sides.  The ribbon flower is stitched with wide 13mm River Silks Ribbon and I love the pouf!  The colors are perky, just as hoped for....but I did have to audition several threads to find the ones that wanted to work together!  Did you notice the layered markers in the center areas?  

I have already begun stitching on another new design....a 4-way African inspired geometric (no name as yet)....but had to set it aside while I waited for my square bead and bugle bead orders to arrive.  They're here, so next week I hope to have something to post.  It is a much different color palette....along the lines of Whirlygig.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Years!