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Wildflower UnderFoot previously Lime n Choc Embroidery Fabric!

 

What came first then?

I love walking about the wild areas near where I live.  They are not big spaces, they're spaces people have forgotten and not used!
As I walk I ponder on life's stuff and look about me.  I know this sounds deep but I do like the freedom of it!
 
 
 
I had already started this fabric...sewing lime green shiny fabric onto a muslin base adding hand dyed lace in places on top.  The fabric was sewn down in gathers and pleats in waves.
 
 


Don't know why but I decided chocolate coloured lining fabric is what was needed between, beneath the pleats.  Then green lining fabric was added to balance the lime green...
 
 

 
Lots of machine stitching to bed the chocolate sections in.



It was at this point I decided to cut the piece into 3....for better or worse!  As this is now a piece that is in the making for months...how many I've forgotten....
 

 
Lots more machine sewing adding texture and a little hand straight stitching around the shapes. 
I had always intended to add leather shapes but up until this point the leather scraps had gone missing!!  Funnily (or worryingly!) they were in the first place I'd looked...ages before!

 
Pink crochet cotton was used to reflect the dye on the lace and some of the machine stitching. 
 
I was still wondering, during one of my walks, what I was trying to show....standing still my eyes rested on the ground beneath my feet.....oh the ground looks like my embroidery (!)
 
 

 
 
Then at last the bit I had formulated from my walks....when I realised the embroidery looked like the grass I'd been meandering through for the past year!!  And even more so as the Autumn season came in.

 
The Bullion knots on the choc waves.  I've used embroidery floss, wool, ribbon and a size 13 chenille embroidery needle!!

 
Still trying to get a good light so the fabric looks half decent....
 
On the grasses and leaves I walk upon there are beautiful beads of dew in the morning and left over rain drops in the afternoon.  And this is where I'm up to.
 
 
This image shows my testing the idea out....I've incorporated a lot more of the clear glass beads and they are perfect when the light hits them.  More pictures when I'm happy with them and I've to do one more thing to this piece and then I hope it's complete...we'll see!
 
I will not be trying anything on the other two pieces for a really long time!
 
Thanks for reading.
 

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Lesnes said…
Beautiful - but only to be expected with your skill and imagination.

We have lovely woods, parks, lakes, canals and the River Thames - but everywhere there are one of those little oasis' they build on it! They even pull down bungalows with wild and wonderful gardens and build about 6 flats at a time. It's just money to the developers! X
18 November 2014 at 02:01
Miss D @ Fibre Dreams said…
I know what you mean...one place I walk was cleared and flattened last year. I thought oh that's sad...but the wildflowers and bushes are back, even better than before...thank goodness!
18 November 2014 at 09:15
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