Posting Pics
Hey, badbookworm - here you go! I'm slow, but I get there.
Full size. Not the greatest picture, but as you can see from my hand it is quite big. Took about a year to finish. It's silk on printed penelope canvas.
Detail of the face.
Hand detail. In this one you can see where I've had to do petit point work using the smallest squares of the canvas mesh, in order to keep the lines of the book true.
Although this isn't counted like some other forms of needlepoint (such as bargello work) it's still got a printed canvas as a guide, so it's more like painting by numbers.
This is embroidery - it's not counted and there is no canvas mesh to guide you. There's no hard and fast rule about how many stitches it takes to fill an area - it just gets done when it gets done.
Like this. You can see how the stitches are graduated to create the impression of lightening colour on the leaves and how some of the centre areas aren't actually fully filled at all - they're filled with star stitch or basketwork stitches typical of the Jacobean style I had in mind when I designed this cushion. Obviously it's not totally freeform - the design was drawn on paper then stitched to the fabric using contrasting thread which was then pulled out as I worked the design in the wools, so there is a guide there, but there's room to play about, which I like.
Full size. Not the greatest picture, but as you can see from my hand it is quite big. Took about a year to finish. It's silk on printed penelope canvas.
Detail of the face.
Hand detail. In this one you can see where I've had to do petit point work using the smallest squares of the canvas mesh, in order to keep the lines of the book true.
Although this isn't counted like some other forms of needlepoint (such as bargello work) it's still got a printed canvas as a guide, so it's more like painting by numbers.
This is embroidery - it's not counted and there is no canvas mesh to guide you. There's no hard and fast rule about how many stitches it takes to fill an area - it just gets done when it gets done.
Like this. You can see how the stitches are graduated to create the impression of lightening colour on the leaves and how some of the centre areas aren't actually fully filled at all - they're filled with star stitch or basketwork stitches typical of the Jacobean style I had in mind when I designed this cushion. Obviously it's not totally freeform - the design was drawn on paper then stitched to the fabric using contrasting thread which was then pulled out as I worked the design in the wools, so there is a guide there, but there's room to play about, which I like.