Lovely vinyl embroidery pouch made byOriginal Marketa Rio de JaneirofromCur.io Vintage
I searched online about Original Marketa. Not very much about them but their creations are all so beautiful. It would be great have a matching purse with my pouch.
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So just a quick update on my latest project. As you can see I’m into the third color section now of mixed golds/browns. Then it will revert back to black and finish with red. This represents the bottom third of the piece. It will be quite large when it is done and will have some more pattern variations as I go along. There are gold and red beads throughout as well although I think you can’t see them so well in the photo. My mum thinks I’ll be done in about ten years. :)))
Many years ago I did a number of Ukrainian embroidery projects. The top is a shirt I made. The rest are bookmarks on Ukrainian themes from Top: The statue of the founders of Kiev (Kyi, Shchek, Khoriv and their sister Lybid) located in Kiev, Ukraine. L-R: Козак Мамай (Kozak Mamay) a figure popular in Ukrainian folk art, the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and his poem Katerina, and of course a stork - a widely seen bird in Ukraine. And the bottom is just a village scene I created based on an old photograph.
This is a pretty typical example of Richelieu embroidery which is essentially white cutwork. This example is from a gallery.ru site. It’s not terribly difficult. You copy a pattern onto tissue paper, attach it to white linen, then do a running stitch to outline the pattern. Remove the tissue paper, buttonhole stitch over all that outline you created with running stitch and cut out the linen in the spaces indicated by the original pattern. Not a bad effect though, I might give it a try on a small sample some time in the near future.
Greetings to all! So now that we are into the New Year, time to start a new project. This is my own design and will be quite large when it is done 32″x32″. As you can see, it will take a long time. :) I started in November, so this is about two months worth of work thus far. I held up my hand next to it so you can get a sense of the scale as well because it is tiny. I’m loving it though, because I am a super fan of complexity so I am rarely doing the same element twice - there is always something new to move on to. I’ll provide updates as I move along and as always, if you have any questions feel free to ask me.
Merry Christmas season everyone! Unfortunately I didn’t get around to doing much Christmas crafting this year. However, I did manage to come up with at least one project. This is an 18x28″ red cloth. It just so happened on Facebook one day in my “memories” news feed a very old Ukrainian art pic of a deer showed up. “Wow” I thought, that would make a perfect Christmas project. So off to amazing land I went. I popped the pic into my favorite website blockposters.com and made it super big to fit my cloth. Then I taped those 4 sheets of paper together and traced the whole thing onto tissue paper which I then attached to my cloth. The whole thing is nothing but chain stitch done with white Pearl thread (a little thicker than your typical DMC thread). Unfortunately I didn’t note the entire name of the artist on the original pic I had. I just have “Panchenko” so if you’re Ukrainian and you know the artist, please do let me know so I can give their full name. The pic was from a very old book printed in Soviet times. I think it will make a lovely addition to my Christmas table.
Now here is something really cool - dried flower embroidery. Basically what you are doing is taking dried flowers and attaching them to an embroidery hoop by means of tulle. Here’s how you go about preparing the flowers: https://youtu.be/VSKhR5mQK4k and the above pic is from Architectural Digest just in case you’re wondering. Also check out Olga Prinku on Instagram for more great examples.
So I am finally done with my traditional project. This was a design called “Woodland wonders” by Karen Brittan. The right side of the pattern and the heart edge is hers, the rest is mine. In the original she just did a mirror flip of the right side on the left. I didn’t like that, to me it just didn’t look natural enough so I tweaked it. Hope you like it.
So for the past several months I’ve been designing a great big new project that will take me probably at least a year to complete, but is deliciously complicated and I think rather beautiful. So here is your sneak peak. This is just the basic idea - what I’m aiming for is to use traditional Turkmen colors such as red, black, yellow and maybe white in the final stitching. It will be approx. 32″x32″ on Aida 14 cloth. The idea was inspired in large part from a fantastic book I picked up months ago by Eric Broug, a Dutch artist, called “Islamc Geometric Design.” Being a fan of grids in general, I thought it was totally fascinating how one could create stars and other interlocking geometric complexities using nothing more than a straight edge and a compass! That’s right, no measuring angles, complex math etc. Well, in the book he shows you how to actually make some of these designs and from that practice, I just went wild :) Now of course my work is not Islamic because none of the patterns I created are traditional in any sense, but I will say that their geometric inventiveness certainly gave me that push to come up with something of my own after months of what I’ll call “needle block” where I couldn’t think of a thing. I’ll continue to provide updates as I move along through various stages of the project and of course answer any questions you may have.
