We had a lovely sunny day for our class, and the gorgeous array of sparkling yellows and greens of the vast array of organzas Susie brought made us feel that Spring is nearly here. Susie brought a large picture of gingko leaves she had made (first photo), and we made a more modest picture using either hand or machine embroidery. Susie had brought our chosen colour of background along, all ready cut to size and prepared with backing, ready to go in the frame she also supplied.
We selected paper templates of the leaves, which we drew around on the background fabric, and then arranged little snippets of various fabrics in the outline, to make some texture and shadows. We added pieces of larger organza in layers to build up the form of the leaves, pinned it on and then stitched the edges and a few of the veins. Once this was done we could use different threads to build up texture and tones to create the leaves. The machine stitchers had the advantage of greater speed than the hand stitchers, and one or two people actually got as far as framing their picture. The photos below show some of the stages of building up the piece, and some near completion.
It was a lovely day, thank you Susie, and thanks to the ladies who brought fruit cake and homemade biscuits!
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