Yesterday was our Miniatures club meeting, getting a bit thin on the ground now with only 4 of us there this time! We haven't met up since May due to every ones own commitments, but we decided to carry on the last theme, window boxes and planters.
I took the workshop this month as everyone wanted me to show them how to make embroidered ferns. A lovely variegated effect is achieved by tweeding two threads together. The technique is needle weaving, which allows the fern leaf to fall free once completed, the longer you make it, the more it twists. They also resemble spider plants
(Just viewed the photos, opps, sorry bit blurrey!)
(Just viewed the photos, opps, sorry bit blurrey!)
Its a very soothing technique and everyone enjoyed doing it, you can be as wild and full on as the fancy takes you and when finished, by cutting quite close to the finish petals they can be inserted into troughs and pots. Next time it creeping plants, ie aubretia
Lucy was the only one who owned up!
Take care
xcx
What a clever way of making embroidered ferns, I wouldn't know where to start. Cats are so nosey, aren't they? Our cat went missing a few times, once we found him in next door but one's garage loft space, he'd been missing for three days and couldn't get out. Another time he was missing for three weeks and a day. I was so upset thinking we'd seen the last of him but he eventually turned up, skin and bone, I think he'd been locked in somewhere.
ReplyDeleteCats are shockers, we had left the car window open a couple of inches the other day and Willa had climbed in, basking in the sun, how to lose cats! xcx
Deleteyour embroidered fern is amazing.... really so clever. So Lucy was there to give the all clear for you....
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Thank you, really easy to do too. Yes, she was the only one to own up to their little games lol xcx
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