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  • Autumn Crow intermediate steps

    Here's a picture of the progress so far. I'll be taking out the fill stitches on the orange leaf (again) because they just want to blend in with the orange of the outline and stem. The colors are really different when they aren't against the green background, but the green is really equalizing...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 08-19-2007

  • Creativity and project progress

    First, I just have to share this thesaurus entry from thesaurus.com . It's about creativity. "Main Entry: fantasy Part of Speech: noun Definition: imagination Synonyms: Atlantis*, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, bugbear, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, dream...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 08-16-2007

  • Autumn Crow color study

    Here's what I came up with this afternoon while playing with colored pencils: There's a bigger version in my gallery if you want to look at it closer. I was going to do the lines in different widths and stitches, but I've decided that lines are just too structured, so the background will...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 08-08-2007

  • Problems and Solutions

    Last night while beading the outer arch of my piece, I realized that I was completely losing the line of the border between the outer and middle arches. I spent a couple of hours last night trying to add different things to fix it, but nothing was working. It was done in threaded stem stitch, so I tried...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 08-07-2007

  • Layer two is finished!

    I finished the low relief stitches of my first Sumptuous Surfaces piece last night. Yay! I put three pictures in my gallery, but I just noticed that the third one, the detail of the inner arch, is blurry. I will have to take another photo of that part tonight. Meanwhile, here are the other two. The full...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 08-02-2007

  • Stitching progress

    I got quite a lot of stitching done last night and today even in between running around. Here are two pictures of what I've done so far. In the first one, ignore the blue at the left. It's electrical tape that I used to keep the fabric edges from fraying, and I didn't quite get it out of...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 07-22-2007

  • A decision and first stitches

    After much contemplation and gathering of many opinions, I decided to stay with my original three arch design. I really like it, so I will just fiddle with it to make it work. Since the fabric is a fairly fine linen canvas (25 count), I think I can still get the more heavily patterned, intricate border...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 07-20-2007

  • First Design

    This is my first design for my Sumptuous Surfaces class: I'm not completely sure about it all of a sudden. I'm wondering if the space is too cramped for doing lots of embroidery and beading. I think before I put it on cloth and start stitching, I'm going to work up one more design that came...
    Posted to Ari's Dreams (Weblog) by AriCuryll on 07-18-2007
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