RURAL ACORNS & SEWING FOR SANITY
ARTIST LAURA CONLON
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LAY OUT
Layout your pieces of fabric, pining so they don"t move.
SLOWLY STITCH
Once the first pieces are stitched down, add some more, and cut out green circles for cabbages. Add some flowery fabric for blooms.
HAPPY HOME
Now just add extra embellishments, and buttons, then sit back and look at your fabulous piece. If you lay it on a white piece of fabric or sheet. See it better.
Image, Masking tape, Tracing paper , Pencil
Find an image you would like to work with. Using masking tape, use a small piece to stick your tracing paper over the picture. Carefully draw around the outline with a pencil.
Then remove the tracing paper.
Carefully cut the big shapes on the tracing paper out.
Think about the colour fabric you want to use.
Cut small pieces out to make it manageable.
Carefully pin your tracing paper shapes to the fabric and cut them out.
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Put all the pieces together
Slowly stitch them together.
Don't worry if your stitching isn't perfect, it's your unique piece.
This is my Ryhope Beach.
I can't find the original photograph I worked from. Do remember the different shades of blue sea and long grasses on the cliff. My finished piece might now look nothing like it but that's ok. It always reminds me of Ryhope, with rugged rock cliffs and wild grasses.
Cut small pieces of blue fabrics, different textures, and frayed edges. Placed them where the sea is.
Used lace and white netting for waves and sea foam.
Long grasses are long tacking stitches but use different thickness threads.
Gather a selection of blue fabrics, old sheets, pillowcases, ribbons, or scraps. Needle and Thread.
Lay your blue materials out, sky and sea.
Cut three triangles, two red ones for sails and 1 for the boat base.
Pin the pieces onto your base fabric.
Then take your time, slowly stitching the pieces together.
Pencil or stitch a circle shape.
Starting from the center at the top. push your needle through from the back.
Push your needle back through the fabric at the centre of the bottom of your circle
Continue till your shape is filled with yellow thread.
Thread your needle with black thread and starting from one side stitch across the yellow making some strips.
Rember to breathe, no hurry.
Smaller your bees the more effective.
Keep an eye on the Sewing For Sanity website and Facebook page. Lots of pre-printed pictures, just thread a needle and follow the lines!
