Do you remember this post showing Paisley Feathers that we were busy working on in the afternoon of our recent North West Regional AGM of the Embroiderers Guild?
Here is a little update showing you the finished results. These are 4 that were brought to our last meeting.
And here they are are again shown separately in close up to allow you to see the lovely details. The beads inside the chain stitches are really effective and give a sumptuous look with an easy stitch. Love that idea!
Chain stitches again below, with button hole wheels and satin stitch flower. There was an ink stain from the flower print so this was hidden by adding a little fly :-) an idea given to me by a lady at the Monday 'Sew In' at Ansdell Library ( 2 pm - 4 pm, anyone is welcome to bring their own project and stitch whilst enjoying friendly conversation).
Here is another Paisley that is the same shape and design as the one stitched by but looks so different. The centre small paisleys are chain stitched and sequins add sparkle.
A totally different design using Satin stitches, detached chain and blanket stitch along side straight stitches and pearl beads look very pretty.
Very tiny back stitches and little sequins make a beautifully executed piece.
We really enjoyed this activity; set for us by Sandra Kendall of the North Lonsdale Branch and can't wait to see them all in situ making up the tail feathers on the Peacock Wall hanging. Its going to look stunning.
Here is more stitched goodness from the NW Regional AGM Day for you to enjoy.
Remember the Four Lines Project? (see previous posts here, here and here) Below are yet more lovely embroidered and embellished Lines.
This brightly decorated Blue piece, above, was really eye catching. Here it is again (without the flash) so that you can see the cacophony of stitching in detail. It reminds one of fireworks so is very apt for the season.
A good idea is to put your work to good use by making it the decorative interest on a box or a cover for your 'tech' as the stitcher of this calm green and amber coloured piece has done below.
They have also changed the shape by using points on each square and cutting the base fabric into an octagon. Very clever. It is a very luxurious looking pouch indeed.
More colour below, with this Purple Blue piece showing Fly, Pistol, Bullion and Seed stitches with French Knots and Button Hole Wheels.
Another unusual and unique Four Line piece is this Floral Tribute to common garden flowers, some are classed as weeds even. What a lovely idea.
Here we have some of the Butterflies stitched on this years National Day of Stitch in August. Read about it here in this post.
Lovely quilted butterflies, above and below more colourful stitched butterflies adorn a tree to make up a pretty wall hanging. Very sweet.
Thank you to the members who stitched these lovely pieces for allowing photos for our Blog.
Each year the NW Region of the Embroiderers Guild produces a 'Journal' that has a small paragraph/mini report of the activities of each Branch in the region which is often accompanied with photos of members/projects.
This year a competition was held to pick an embroidered piece for the photo on the front cover.
Here is a piece stitched by one of our own members of the Lytham St Annes Branch.
Visitors to Lytham who have ever walked the full length of the prom toward Fairhaven Lake should recognise this delightful Summer House so accurately depicted below.
The colours are much brighter in reality but the flash version did not show all the detailed stitching which has gone into this lovely piece.
The Winning Piece was an unusual Grey Giraffe, so look out for it on the cover of next years Journal that should be out in April 2018 in time for Regional Day.
For the past few years at the Embroiderers Guild North West Regional AGM after morning business is concluded, we have had a relaxing stitching activity in the afternoon.
You may remember the Circles and Four Lines previously posted? Now created for us by the same talented and very creative lady, Sandra Kendall from the North Lonsdale Branch; we have Paisley :-) Wow! Just where does she get her ideas? and how wonderfully generous she is in preparing for us 40 individual (probably more! as there were several left over) hand dyed, hand printed, appliqued, backed with vilene and ready to sew pieces of 'paisley' for our activity.
Here are some of the samples Sandra stitched ready to give us some inspiration. You will have to read on further to find out why there is a safety pin in each one. Meantime enjoy the lovely, brightly coloured threads and stitches on each paisley piece.
Pretty turquoise with a shisha mirror and beads, above; and below, lines of feather stitches frame the beads in centre.
These two paisley examples have an appliqued piece in their centres, the one above has a printed flower that has been embroidered.
Whipped or Ribbed Spider Webs aka Wheels in the centres of these two above and below. The lilac paisley has variations of Button Hole stitch and the blue below uses a variegated pink thread to good effect to make Chain Stitches.
And what are all these Paisley beauties for you may wonder? Well, ponder no more! Here he is waiting for the rest of his tail feathers to be stitched by our members. This lovely Peacock will make a sumptuous wall hanging once he is complete.
You really need to see it in person to imagine the scale - as true to form Sandra has come up with another very Big Idea.
We can't wait to see the end result next year. Meantime we are busy stitching and embellishing our individual Paisley Feathers to send off to be added to the Peacock Tail.
Here is one in progress stitched by a member of the Lytham St Annes Branch.
The Button Hole Wheels will have silver beads in each centre and the flower still needs to be Satin Stitched. We are all really enjoying this challenge and would like to thank Sandra for all her hard work in preparing such an lovely activity for us.
