Three weeks ago I was full of plans for one of the last pages for my garden book. I’d mapped it out a few months ago with the help of google maps and put it somewhere safe…and guess what, I can’t find it!! Despite tidying up with encouragement from the Sewing Room Declutter Challenge, it hasn’t turned up, so I’m going to have to draw it out again.
In the meantime I found I’ve still a few mini embroideries to incorporate into a page or two. I decided to do the one of my standard rose, Claire Austin. It’s a beautiful creamy coloured David Austin rose, I’ve just looked through my photos on here and I couldn’t find a single photo! Very remiss of me as it’s a beautiful standard rose, it’s probably because photographically the background is the garage and the kitchen window, not exactly photogenic!! It was the first standard rose I bought, it’s pretty big now. Anyway, here’s my embroidery together with a few bits I pulled out to have a play with.
I embroidered the words onto some evenweave fabric I found in my stash, it was a bit ‘fluffy’, which has softened the pulled edges a bit.
I decided the wider bobbin lace, although very pretty, it made too much of a stripe, the flower trim looked better. This was me playing with the trims after I’d stitched the fabric background.
I stitched the words on with a simple running stitch, the butterfly with buttonhole stitch and shortened the flower trim before stitching it down. It’s squarer than it looks in the photo!
It still needed a little something so I stitch wavy lines of feather stitch in two shades of green. I think it’s just enough without competing with the central embroidery.
I think I’ve about a dozen pages finished now, possibly one or two more little embroidery ones and the map to do…then I can start putting it together.
This SAL is organised by Avis form Stitching by the Sea, we post every three weeks which is great to keep me motivated on a project. Please follow the links to see what everyone else is stitching.
Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Margaret,
Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon,
Daisy, Cathie, Linda, Helen, MaryMargaret, Cindy
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Simply beautiful and with the perfect embellishments.
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Thanks Claire
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This page is gorgeous. What a wonderful addition to your book. Very creative.
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Thanks Cathie
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Margaret, did you happen to include a photograph of your map idea in one of your past posts? That might at least speed things up in recreating it. The rose page is a delight to the eye and senses. The flower lace adds great depth to the page with its 3-dimensional quality.
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Thanks Kathy, unfortunately not, I suspect the original has fallen down the side of an immoveable cupboard!!
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Love to watch this project grow. Always such beautiful work 🙂
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Thanks Sharon, I’m enjoying stitching these pages.
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I’m sure you will find your page once you stop looking 😀. Your rose is beautiful
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I’ll probably find it once I’ve drawn another one 😀
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The standard rose is gorgeous! Love the way you’ve coloured the background which makes it pop.
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Thank you, I can’t remember what kind of paint I used now, probably either silk or watercolour.
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The David Austin rose looks lovely and the feather stitch adds to the design.
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This is all so pretty and I love the rose tree above its little flower border.
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I can almost smell that rose. The garden book is going to be a treasure
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Thank you, the final pages are coming together in my mind.
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