Wednesday 27 January 2010

WOYWW - actually on my kitchen unit today.

Being a messy worker, I always have to work in the kichen if I am working with paint, dyes etc. Today I want to do some more silk painting so I have set up on my kitchen work top.


As you can see - the silk is all pinned out on my frame and I have paints, brushes, palette etc all ready.

At the back, in good Blue Peter fashion, some silk painted cards that I made earlier this week.

I put wadding at the back of each little silk painting and used silver thread to embellish them.

It was a costly project as I broke 3 needles before I realised that my metallic thread was not the best and it just didn't like my machine. Once I changed to Gutterman thread it was fine.

So .... if at first you don't succeed...

This is what I have achieved so far today...


I keep my flower shapes simple because I like to free machine all the detail - assuming I don't break too many needles.

Hopefully I shall have time later to finish them and then I expect they will go in our blog shop.
I am going to whiz round a few blogs now and see what you have all been up to.
Have a good week!

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11 comments:

  1. Annie27 January 2010 at 14:41

    Just gorgeous as always sis. Oh to have time for play :-)
    A x

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  2. Unknown27 January 2010 at 14:43

    Such beauty and talent ... and your silk painting aint bad either *LOL*

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  3. Felted House27 January 2010 at 17:00

    These are beautiful and will make a great addition to your shop xx

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  4. Liverpool Lou (Anne)27 January 2010 at 17:34

    Lovely silk painting Twiglet :)
    Anne xx

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  5. Anonymous27 January 2010 at 19:28

    Wonderful work Twiglet..... Twiglet and Wipso!! How did you get those names???

    Brenda

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  6. Pam27 January 2010 at 19:44

    These are georgous Hugs Pam

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  7. Julia Dunnit27 January 2010 at 20:13

    Oh these are lovley..your freeform flowers are so, well I don't know, so free, I suppose. Love 'em.

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  8. MarmaladeRose27 January 2010 at 22:32

    Very pretty indeed. I want to see the embroidery too.

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  9. BumbleVee28 January 2010 at 19:56

    I have no clue who Peter Blue is... maybe I can Google him... or it.... er...sorry... but, they are pretty and I can hardly wait to see what happens next....

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  10. BumbleVee29 January 2010 at 16:57

    aha! thanks for the heads up on BP.... when I googled that name..... about 1,198 pages popped up....so I probably saw it somewhere in the mass...but, couldn't decide which it was. Now I know.... don'tcha love blogging? Always learning some new little thing....

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  11. Anonymous29 January 2010 at 19:36

    Hi, just popped over to visit you after seeing your comment about Blue Peter on Vee's blog! I had to use a photo 'that I took earlier' on tonight's post, as I forgot to take one of what I had done today. I often have trouble with metallic thread - even when using a proper metallic needle in the sewing machine. Your silk painting is lovely - I'll come back to see what you do next! Regards, Anne

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Thanks for all your comments. I really appreciate your thoughts and ideas.