His 'mane' is nearly done now.
I have been looking over the beautiful indigo that Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth has been working with and while I would love to dye some myself it just isnt something I will be doing. Glennis Dolce does it beautifully and I do so covet those moons.
Lacking funds to purchase the beautiful indigos I instead took sissors to all the old, torn, outgrown, and shabby denim I could get my hands on. While modern denim is not dyed from natural indigo it would have to do for me now. What I have now is a wonderful sewn together yardage of indigo colored fabric in shades that vary from deep blue to a medium blue. I was hoping for some of that wonderful ice blue that comes from aged jeans but alas, none to be had here.
So, what will become of this refigured denim? It has a good weight for something that would get a good deal of use. I thought tote-bag. But, no. I am giving it a round of embroidery and then it will be a wonderful pillow. Here is my test piece of embroidery on some of the fabric. I needed to see how it would work up and if I liked my initial design enough to go on.
And yes. I do like this. So I took my little embroidered patch and put it together with a part of the short pieces of fabric and made a mini bag...
I am guessing that this is about 5 x 10 inches. I gave it a velcro closure and it holds a collection of threads I will be using for the larger pillow. The benefits of having the colors I want in one place and portable, while also having a reference to the sort of design work I want on the pillow top.
9 comments:
works for me karen...lots of life and color! the link to the indigo was nice, so beautiful what people come up with!
loving seeing more work from you.
that's the way to go.....
yup- use what is at hand.
lovely embroidery!
Very pretty! I remember from the old days how nice denim is to embroider :)
I did the same thing--used the end of the month as play and catch up time before the next challenge. I may extend it a few days. Hope I'm not sorry about that later.
Denim makes a great background for almost anything and this is no exception. I just wish it was a bit lighter in weight for quilts. Now I want to try indigo dyeing too...but do I have time and money to do everything? Unfortunately,no.
I think this is fabulous! I'm onto denim too at the moment. To get some variation in tones I've been leaving 10" squares for different time intervals in a little solution of bleach to discharge the color. Works nicely.
Yeah to using what you've got!
Your stitching is just lovely. The mane is fantastic.
Beautiful embroidery on denim and the mane is getting better and better.
I have not even gotten my idea yet for the next challenge. Hope to start on it Monday.
This is EXACTLY the way spring is! Absolutely beautiful work. The cat is so...right!!!!
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