Samples 2016: Week 7, Growth/Bronze

This didn't start well - no "bronze" fabric or thread. But I did have transfer foil...

I free machine stitched the little shoots on calico, using heat bonding thread on the bobbin. This thread is thick and poorly twisted so I couldn't use it through the needle and had to work from the back.

Then I ironed bronze transfer foil over the stitching, and it stuck nicely to the bonding thread - magic!  
 

Samples 2015: Week 5, Gap in the Clouds

Silver transfer foil ironed onto felt with Bondaweb. Surrounded by swirls of grey and black wool tops applied using the embellisher.

Source picture

From this article in the Saturday Guardian 31/01/15:

“‘Drowned in a sea of salt’ Blake Morrison on the literature of the east coast. Writers from Crabbe to Sebald have been drawn to the fragile beauty of the east coast of Britain – and have immortalised it in words”.

Shingle Street in Suffolk

Sample design
My first thought was a vertical section, bands of greys with silver and gold. So, just to be awkward, I rejected that and focussed instead on a fleeting gap in the clouds where the sun peeped through.