Canvas Embroidery
I will tell you how it happened that I got involved with satin-stitching and present two twin pictures to you. This pair hangs on the wall in my kitchen. They were based on the sketches I found in "The Red Book of Belorussia" - I just added some details.
The technique I use in satin-stitching:
1.A realistic basis - for designing - pictures of artists who paint nature. It is a good reason to spend a couple of hours in a library with tracing paper at hand. You can copy several interesting images of plants to separate pieces of tracing paper and then play with them trying to compose a picture. When you make a composition that looks nice to you, copy it to a whole sheet of paper. Believe me - this is a really interesting work.
- 2.Free choice of colors, it is very important that each plant you use in your picture has a color of its own. Let one stem be turquoise, next one light-green and so on. Then each plant will have an individual spectrum and sing "its own song" on the picture - this will make it visible. It is not so important that the colors match the natural coloring - the more they are away from real colors, the more interesting the picture looks!
I hope that you already know how to make satin embroidery, semi satin embroidery and rococo stitch. Honestly, it would be a good reason to visit your mom, granny or aunt. I myself once came to my mother and she was very happy to teach me embroidery. I don't like to use books, they are always very expensive and rather boring.
You may use any threads - silk, mouline, wool. The foundation fabric should be made of pure natural yarn - linen or cotton without any synthetic additives
You may see other works of mine in the gallery.
For beginning try to stitch three designs that I made and placed in "Schemes". I made them rather long ago but for some reason never could find time to stitch them. By the way, I may tell you about my dream - I want to write a book on embroidery. A draft title is "Fancy work Self-Taught for those who are Lazy but Curious". Actually, this is not a dream any longer - I'm writing the book. Let the word "lazy" not hurt you - I'm sure that a real driving force in creativeness is not working hard but curiosity!
GOOD LUCK!
