I can't believe we are halfway through the month of April, this month is just flying by. We have had some crazy weather here in north central Florida, from hot sunny days that feel like the middle of summer to wicked rain storms and tornado warnings to cold mornings and glorious afternoons.
The Solar eclipse came and went without much fanfare here, though I will say the sun appeared extra bright and the birds were quiet for a while. For the K3n.clothtales SAL our weekly prompt was the Sun which seemed right with the star and moon prompts the previous weeks. The weekly prompt included the eclipse. Here is my piece for week 15 along with the moon with wolf and friendship star pieces. I am coming to embrace the wonkiness of my pieces, I love the raw edges and the layering of fabrics. I have always admired the work of others yet never imagined I would love the process as much as I do.
I have been working on several goddess pieces in the slow stitch style, I am currently working on the Summer goddess. First, I pulled out lots of yellow fabrics, many scraps from my stash. Then I cut or tore them into strips. I traced the template onto muslin then began to randomly stitch them on where you can see a vague figure.
Once each piece is stitched onto the fabric I stitch vertical lines of running stitch down the length of the entire piece, once that is done I stitch around the traced line of the template. Once all the stitching is completed I cut out the goddess shape and then mount her onto a background fabric.
Then I just build onto the piece with some fussy cut pieces, hand embroidery, other embellishments as I work.
The fussy cut piece I added is from In the Beginning, Sun Moon and Stars by Jason Yenter.
I have also mounted the purple goddess onto the background fabric and will begin work soon, I have autumn and winter in the planning stages.
I finished the Kathy Schmitz Woven Wreath's SAL block piece for April and March which I didn't post.
I changed a few of the stitches on both the bee and the bunny, preferring the back stitch over the stem stitch.
I began the stitching on the Stitchdoodles SAL last week, the SAL began on April 3 and post each Wednesday.
I also have a hand embroidery started a moon gazing hare I just started it on Friday night using the DMC Etoile floss for the moon
The purple goddess is also on her background piece and I will start adding bits and pieces in the coming weeks ahead.
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