HAPPY NEW YEAR... or February Already?!?!? Yikes!

Hello Everybody!
I can't believe it's February already! I see that the last post i made was way back in October, around the time of the Nudes Exhibition. Well, since then I finished a piece of work I started for the Arists in Action and then had to hang up my needles, while I took on more of a role at my day job. Then all of a sudden it was christmas! This month we got some great news and we will be moving to Melbourne at the end of the month. I'm so excited!

As things start to pick up with my embroidery again I have relisted my Blackwork Tudor Rose kit on Etsy. I am also going to add some pieces of work on there too, which I think you might recognise! During the year I'll be adding more designs to the shop, along with some pieces of art for sale, so keep an eye out!

I also have some classes lined up over the next 2 months, details of which I'll be putting up on the classes page.

So i guess you want to see some work then, hey? Well here you are! This piece of blackwork was worked from a photograph called "Peek-A-Boo" and was given to the friend who took the original photo.

Nude: All finished and ready to go!

Wow! I can't believe it has been a month since the last time I posted on here... But to be fair it's been pretty busy in my world. Deaths, Promotions and a long To-Do list have filled up my days over the last month but in preparation for the upcoming Nowa Nowa Nudes exhibition next weekend I wanted to show you my entry fully finished and ready to go.

I only hit one snag with this piece, when i had to replace some net thanks to an over excited cat practising her parkour skills in my workroom and putting her foot through it. But we can keep that between us, right? Sweet...

So the first thing I had to do after i had finished all the stitching was cut back the second layer of linen. All of this has to be carefully done as you don't want to cut through the net or any of the stitching you've done.

 

the pictures don't show it, but the linen is cut right back to the stitching so there is none flapping about. This is going to make the skin seem more white as the coloured backing fabric won't show through so easily. Then I had to turn it over and start cutting the linen to reveal the net...

 A few tweeks here and there (I did mention my cat...) and it was finished! I decided to choose red to go behind her, not just because red is my favorite colour but also because I thought a nude pin up should express passion. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome and I hope the judges at the exhibition are too!