It turned out to be a lovely day yesterday after all the rain we've been having, so I thought I'd take my sketchbook outside and finish the stitching / painting excercise out there. Sat down and realised the table was filthy so decided I'd just clean that before I got started. Then...with the bucket of hot soapy water there just thought I'd wipe over the large pots....and sweep up the decking....oh and the pool needed skimming of leaves....
An hour and a half later I finally got the paints out.......but I like to think it benefitted from the tidy surroundings!
Picked some of the large palms in our garden for the subject of this.
I used crochet perle cotton to sew over the leaves in buttonhole stitch. I didn't appreciate how dark these stitches would become once they'dd sucked up the ink, so not a very accurate painting, but I loved the wet print achieved on the facing page.
And this was the result on the following pages - back of stitches on the left and their print on the right.
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