Sample Project 2013 - December

Here it is, the very last instalment of my 2013 sample project! I've been making little textile samples every week inspired by the photos in a John Muir Trust Wild Nature Diary. Usually a pretty quick response, just for fun and variety.

Week 49: Tail of White -Tailed Sea Eagle

(Photo of White Tailed Sea Eagle flying over Skye)

We watched three of these magnificent birds soaring together when we were in Skye ourselves in September! 

Free machined on calico with applied felt, cut away.

 

Week 50: Falling water/aluminium

(Photo of Falls of Foyers, previously used to generate electricity to smelt aluminium)

Free machined lines representing falling water on crumpled aluminium foil (over felt).

 

Week 51: Pine Pollen

(Photo of Scots pine tree in snow)

Couldn't resist doing the pollen rather than the tree, pine pollen is so weird with the little air sacs for wind distribution.

White Lutradur rubbed with blue and grey fabric crayons. Free machined with different shades of blue on top and bobbin. Burned out with soldering iron.

Week 52: Oak leaf on snow

(Photo of golden oak leaf dusted with snow)

Bondaweb leaf shape ironed onto white polyester felt. Gold and copper transfer foil ironed over, lightly. Free machined outline and veins.

Week 53: Limestone pavement in snow

(Photo of limestone pavement near Ingleborough, blanketed in snow)

Small blocks of stitch/weave using white pearl cotton. Painted over with acrylic.  

Sample Project 2013 - January

Ta dah! Here beginneth the SEVENTH year of my weekly sample projects!

This year I’ve got a John Muir Trust “Wild Nature Diary” to work with. Each week has a photo – wildlife, landscape, plants – which I’ll use as the inspiration for a little sample that I’ll stick on the facing page.

BUT, I’ve given myself permission to stray as far as I like from the photos, as I’m feeling the lack of hard lines, unnatural colours, man made patterns etc. after last year’s 52 samples from marine life.

If you’d like to see all my 2012 samples, just put Sample Project 2012 in the search box on this blog. 

So here’s the first batch for 2013.

 

Week 1: Ice crystals on tree branches

(Photo of robin in frosty tree)

Black and grey speckled chenille thread couched onto blue polycotton using spiky straight stitches in stranded cotton.

 

 

 

 

Week 2: Reeds in lochan

(Photo of Rannoch Moor)

Straight stitch in stranded cotton on poly “silk”.

 

 

 

 

Week 3: Snow shading

(Photo of mountain hare sheltering in snow hole)

Pale blue felt embellished onto white felt from the back.

 

 

 

 

Week 4: The Schiehallion Experiment

(Photo of Schiehallion mountain in snow)

The mountain was used in 1774 for an experiment to determine the mean density of the earth. Contour lines were devised to survey it.

Free machine embroidery, built in patterns, and hand stitch on cotton.  

 

Week 5: Red deer fur, contrast where neck meets shoulder

(Photo of red deer stag in snow)

Background of brown and rust felts embellished onto white felt. FME in several shades of brown.