Lula's Silk Gauze Needlepoint Adventure
Completed as of 21 Feb
1998
Lula's Silk Gauze Needlepoint Adventure
Completed as of 21 Feb
1998
The above image is a scan taken of my very first finished silk gauze needlepoint mounted in the cover of a small Sudberry House box. The following images below were recorded by digital camera.
Stitching on 40 mesh silk gauze was a real needlework adventure for me. This is the smallest canvas mesh I've worked on so far. I have an even smaller sample piece of 48 mesh silk gauze to consider stitching , a piece of 30 mesh and a sample of 40 mesh in black that promises to be an exciting adventure of contrast color stitching! Discovering this needlework medium has opened a new world of creative needlework illustration for me with endless possibilities to explore.
I'm looking forward to using more of those wonderful colors of silks, cottons and Rayon flosses to "paint" my new ideas in stitchery. I like the way the tiny stitches of color blend together creating an artistic watercolor like effect with the quality and texture of beautiful handwork. Silk gauze needlepoint for me is similar to a combination of creating a custom designed textile fabric with a feeling of woven tapestry.
I'm so very pleased with the results of this first silk gauze project despite some small ups and downs of a couple of wrong color choices, having to rip out tiny stitches and a slight uneveness here and there of the stitched surface. That's what a first experimental project does, getting me acquainted with working new materials, improving my skills and enlarging my creative world as a stitcher and as an artist/designer.
The finished Silk
gauze picture is mounted in a 4"x 4" square Walnut finished
box made by Sudberry House from the Simply Square
box series. The Sudberry box is
shown nestled among a collection of hand carved wood puppets
from India and old Burma, part of my ethnic folk art and
textile collections. Another view of the
small Sudberry Box among a collection of multi - colorful
Chinese pincushions which I have many of in all sizes and
shapes along with other interesting hand made, colorful
pincushions I collect. I like surrounding
myself with lots of whimsical, colorful objects in my studio
because all these charming bits and pieces creates a very
happy and inspiring environment to work in. A closer view of the
box with the narrow little violet colored mat Mr Wooly cut
and used to enclose the needlepointed silk gauze into the
Sudberry box lid since the finished area of my design was
half an inch smaller all around than the box
dimensions. Contact:
http://www.sudberry.com/
for more info
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