One of my favourite things to do when stitching is to use scraps to create something new. I'm also a big fan of abstract work, which I do not tire of looking at, always noticing a shape or texture I might not have noticed before. This afternoon, I finished a small piece I'd had going for a while, picking it up whenever I felt like making a few stitches. I had no plan other than limiting my colour palette to scraps of purple in two slightly different shades, blue-ish teal, and the thread with a gold sparkly wrap. The purples are perle cotton and crochet cotton, the teal is standard embroidery floss with a matte finish, and the gold is meant more for knitting or crochet, I think. I use whatever works. It was stitched on a scrap of white aida cloth, 16 count. I love removing a few threads on the edges to make the fringe, so that's what I did here.
11 comments:
I think it is lovely!!
Thank you! It's a fun and relaxing way to play with shape and colour!
Love it
It's very pretty! Wish I was crafty. My mom could do it all and said it was very calming.
Thank you!
I agree with your mom, Vicki! :-)
WOW, dear Shari, that looks great, a wonderful play of colors. And yes, the first thing I thought of was a house! :-)
All the best and happy Sunday!
Hugs, Traude
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Danke schön, Traude!
Oh I love the fringe effect, nice!
I also 'see a house' and think it all goes so nicely together.
Abscraption is a perfect name for how you bring various bits and bobs together to create something that 'wants to be made'!
I almost always do the fringe thing with little cross stitch pieces :-) It's funny--I really hate pom poms, but quite like fringe and tassels. Weird.
Oh I'm the same, pom poms are like ahhhh but fringe and tassels are nice.
I think your 'house' looks like a multi-level with maybe a nice terrace or something. =)
It's fun to see what the result of random stitching ends up being!
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