Tuesday 2 November 2010

Bringing me Back to Rooted

Spied this lovely oak leaf tea towel yesterday as I desperately searched for inspiration. Couldn't bring myself to cut into grandma's tea towel so.....

the day was spent stitching my own version.  This morning at the crack of dawn I started auditioning bits and pieces for the terra firma beneath my oak....

As soon as I saw this pic, I knew the flower garden paper piecing was wrong. It overpowers everything else. The Sanderson print on the outside ring needs to be included and luckily there is a small piece pinned on below that I can still use. My fingers froze as I photographed outside, and then......

the sun kissed the tree tops.  Winter is nearly here.  I can tell because my hands have started catching on cloth as I stitch.
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11 comments:

  1. you have caught the season.

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  2. could you also pull apart the flowergarden and use the individual hexies? your oak leaves and acorns are just wonderful. enjoy the Winter's approach. k.

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  3. love your leaf stitching. reminds me of a zentangle.

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  4. Your leaf is beautiful. How you accomplished so much so well in such a short amount of time is a mystery and wonder to me.

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  5. Your oak leaf version is very interesting. So cleverly arranged with colour and stitches. I am getting itchy fingers for Grandmother's Flower Garden from looking at yours. Thank you for sharing your thoughts as you work. It is really inspiring. Gilly

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  6. I've noticed a real resurgence of Grandmothers Flower Garden around the internet lately - makes me remember how much I hoped to inherit a quilt that my grandma made that she'd done in that pattern. Alas it was not to be! I do have another one tho' that my aunt made us for a wedding present - too small to fit on any bed we own, but a treasure nevertheless. Must get it out and take a photo for my blog!

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  7. suggestion: weave it in...k.

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  8. English paper piecing is fun to do but NOT to undo!
    Like the idea of embroidery looking like zentabgle. That might take me in a different direction.

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  9. Photographs really help with perspective, don't they?

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  10. I love the variation in pattern in the oak leaf.. lovely.

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