I've been busy getting Watching on stretcher bars and pulling a ton of threads that might (or might not) work for this piece. My normal procedure when I pull a canvas from my stash is to find any thread that appears to be a similar color to my painted canvas and put them all in a box that sits near my stitching chair. That way I have plenty of choices when I get ready to stitch an area.
Normally I start with the background, but I've listened to the Fiber Talk interview with Gay Ann Rogers several times (link below in case you haven't caught it yet) and I'm altering my usual approach slightly to try out some things Gay Ann mentioned.
http://wetalkfiber.com/2018/08/12/fiber-talk-with-gay-ann-rogers-ii/
I'm going to start with the face of the woman and probably will stitch her arm nearest the turtle right after that. And then I probably will stitch her hair. Then I will work on the green water which is the background of this design.
To read other articles on Watching (official title is "Woman Watching Turtle" from Colors of Praise—the photo is at the top of the right hand column), use the search box at the upper left corner to search "watching." If all goes well—and I can't promise that because Blogger is getting flaky—all the articles written about this design should appear.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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© Copyright August 12, 2018 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
T-stitch and Its Uses
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Waste Knot
Lori at Waste Knot talks t-stitch, with a diagram and several great examples of how t-stitch adds a lot to various painted canvases by making a white sky blue, a suitcase tweed, and to make the background recede.
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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright June 10, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
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