Sample Project 2013 - March

One sample per week inspired (loosely) by the photo in my John Muir Trust Wild Nature Diary. Just playing!

  

Week 10: Snowdrops

(Photo of snowdrops in woodland) 

Felting and hand stitch in wool threads on Aquasol.

 

 

 

Week 11: Fingal’s Cave

(Photo of the basalt columns of the cave on Staffa)

Sheet music for Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture, pleated into columns, layered, machine stitched in the turquoise colour of the sea in the photo.

 

 

 

Week 12: Frog spawn

(Photo of frogs with text about spawning)

Black dots of craft Vilene machine stitched in four layers of sheer fabric.

 

 

 

 

Week 13: Wild daffodils

(Photo of daffodils in woodland)

Contrasting record warmth of March 2012 with record cold of March 2013!My own photo of wild daffodils in Farndale on 27/3/12 transferred onto cotton fabric, then machine stitched with white lines to represent the snow of 27/3/13.

 

 

So that’s a quarter of the year done!

If anyone’s noticed this blog is even quieter than it used to be, that’s because I’m spending more time on FaceBook at the moment. Come over and say hi!

Sample Project 2013 - February

One sample per week inspired by the photo in my John Muir Trust Wild Nature Diary. I’m keeping up so far, but not finding enough ways to go off piste yet!

 

Week 6: The Old Man of Storr

(Photo of Trotternish Peninsula, Skye, in snow)

The text mentioned this iconic rock formation. I used one of my own photos of it for the shape.

Solid free machining (straight and zigzag) on Aquasol.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 7: Plant enclosed in rime ice

(Photo of heather I think, each sprig completely surrounded by clear ice)

Free machine embroidery on Aquasol. Dissolved, then trapped in file pocket plastic, machine stitched round and cut out.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 8: Hooded Crow

(Photo of two hooded crows in snowy tree)

Black and grey wool-viscose felt cut out and embellished onto white.

 

 

 

Week 9: Kelp in rock pool

(Photo of limestone shore with kelp in a pot hole)

Kunin felt with hole cut out, free machined all over, including edges of hole, on Aquasol. After dissolving, orange ribbon was bunched up in the hole, with black felt behind, and secured with a few hand stitches. 

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.

Facing up to Facebook

I’ve resisted for a long time, but this week I’ve finally caved in and joined the dreaded Facebook.

Thanks to encouragement and advice from textile friends Jackie Cardy and Beverley Folkard, I now have my very own page at AnneHoneymanTextileArt.

There’s a link on the side of this blog too – please come and say hi!

So that’s yet another place to meet and share in cyberspace. Beats venturing out into the real world in weather like this, pretty as it is: