Thursday 28 November 2013

Psychadelic Bird

Last night I sat and finished off my bird embroidery. When I first saw this pattern I wasn't sure that it appealed to me at all, but now with all the colours thrown in randomly (sort of the same way I quilt) I love it.


I used a smaller hoop to do the embroidery, and now need to go purchase a slightly larger hoop for finishing it off. Moving the small hoop around kind of bashed the hell out of my French knots but they still look okay(ish) if you don't look too close.

As said in an earlier post, I picked up this pattern at the FQ Retreat in the summer time. It did not come with a stitch guide so I just randomly chose stitches as I went along. I used French knots, backstitch, chain stitch, split stitch, stem stitch, lazy daisy, satin stitch and who knows what else. Mostly I used floss, but there are a couple of bits of Perle thrown in when I wanted a different colour. The majority of the time I used two strands, though I did do some single strand chain stitching, and all the French knots were single strand to keep them small.


I do find embroidery surprisingly relaxing and quick to do. I will have to have a poke around and see what else I can find in the way of patterns just hanging about waiting for me to pick them up.

Susan

27 comments:

  1. Its gorgeous Susan! I'm thinking of maybe doing some embroidery over Christmas when we've got people over and sewing might be tricky (ggrrrrrr!) but it's been an age since I did any embroidery!

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  2. Funny, it's the first thing I learnt & is still one of the things I love most. Relaxing, take anywhere, quick & looks good. Fits all the criteria :)

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  3. love it susan -you've done beautiful job

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  4. Fabulous! Your style is perfect for that bird :)

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  5. So colorful and sweet! Nicely done! Looking closely at French knots is churlish, right up there with looking at the back of another needleworker's work.

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  6. So colorful and sweet! Nicely done! Looking closely at French knots is churlish, right up there with looking at the back of another needleworker's work.

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  7. It's gorgeous - so colorful and cheery!

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  8. Really beautiful stitching and great colours!

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  9. You could get your girls to draw you some patterns too. This one remind me of Judith.

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  10. It's beautiful Susan! And the colours make it speacial! x Teje

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  11. It turned out beautiful! If this is for a gift someone is going to be very happy.

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  12. It's absolutely beautiful. Do I see interfacing or something on the back of your white fabric?

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  13. It is beautiful and the colours are great. Di x

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  14. Looks fab, great work on your psycho bird! x

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  15. Very peace , love , 60's.

    I love it - those colours in your embroidery look fantastic!

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  16. way out man.........very physcadelic (sic). Looks really good, must get out my old Una Stubbs embroidery books.

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  17. It's lovely and ideal to use all the different colours and stitches on! It's a psychedelic sampler bird.

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  18. Such beautiful stitching as always - love the bright colours!

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  19. Nice job on the random stitchery!

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  20. So lovely! I like all those colours together - it totally works, Susan.

    I totally agree about finding embroidery relaxing - I've been reaching for hand work recently and loving every moment of it.

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  21. It looks fantastic Susan! I love the colours you've used. I did the same with mine, just made it up as I went along and now I don't know what to do with it. Will you frame yours in a hoop? I'm thinking similar. You can't beat a bit of embroidery sometimes. And wow you did it quickly too!

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  22. Stunning finish to your embroidery Susan! Makes me want to unearth the one I brought back, but I really need to stay focussed for December!

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  23. Looks fantastic. I wish I could get through my embroidery as fast.

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