In September 2014, our Fiber Junkies group spent a day over-painting completed or half-completed projects using diluted house paint. The ole' "it can't get any worse approach" for work that wasn't satisfactory the first time around.
We have a tendency not to stick with our designated themes......so when Judy brought out some plain lightweight canvas to share....I created this. The background is house paint and the reeds were done with metallic acrylic paint.
Does it matter? However I can say it was quite awhile! For instance this photo was taken Jan. 10, 2014....but who's counting?!?
SUNRISE AT THE MARSH - 14.5" X 12.5" © 2015
Hand embroidered painted cotton canvas.
Check out what others have been creating this week: Off The Wall Friday, Whoop, Whoop Friday, Crazy Mom Quilts, and Richard and Tanya Quilts.
11 comments:
Beautiful! I have painted on quilts using latex wall paint and the surface is quite stiff. Wasn't hard to stitch thru the paint?
I love hand stitching at night also, Marti. This work shows incredible patience! Glad you persisted and I like your solution to binding.
What a gorgeous piece. No wonder the hand stitching took so long, but, as you say, who's counting when it's as lovely as that?
Softly appealing. Interesting about the Q-Snap. I like that frame, too, but had not considered the stress it puts on some materials like the paint.
Wow! Just beautiful. I need to have a handwork project going to, so I have something to do while watching sports with my husband. :)
Way to pull an eh piece into a wow one! I am also wondering about stitching thru house paint. I would imagine it being really hard.
It's Mary here....thought I'd jump in with a bit more insight.... First, the house paint was diluted... A LOT! Plus the canvas was light-weight and quite loosely woven...I've actually had more difficulities stitching on some batiks than I did with this.
Regarding QSnap frame....I ALWAYS use one for beading and embroidery...always. When I wish to protect fragile work (ike when beading) I often to attach narrow muslin sleeves to the frame, allowing me to pin my work onto that fabric edge, and not use clips. I just didn't think the paint would come off like it did....so I didn't bother to use this trick for this project.
The stitching is fabulous! Evening stitching is my favorite time.
WOW...this turned out great!!! Really...it's wonderful!!! So much movement and the color from the stitching is wonderful!!! Or is that the stitching brings out the color!!! Either way...wonderful!
I had the great fun of seeing it in person...and it's amazing....the picture is lovely but doesn't do it justice. The hand sitching on this covers the entire piece and is a work of art....
Fighting back the urge to say, "crazy woman"... ;-)
What a lot of work but such a beautiful result. Good thing you ENJOY handwork. Otherwise the crazy woman comment would stick!
Out of curiosity, did you at any point heat set the paint? I'm thinking through why the paint flaked off. Could just be the two kinds of paint, one on the other. Nice save!
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