tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40876225727716044192024-03-15T18:09:34.313-07:00RosalieWakefield-MillefioriMy blog about Brazilian dimensional embroidery. Mostly.Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-23329538301919157292017-04-29T14:46:00.000-07:002017-04-29T14:46:27.130-07:00While We're Waiting -- More Flowers from An Artist's Garden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A while back I started sharing Brazilian dimensional embroidery flowers from my book, <em>An Artist's Garden</em>, so you could have a color reference for the designs.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the Treasure Flower or Gazania (also called African Daisy). The photo of this flower is courtesy of MissouriBotanicalGarden.org:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought of an interesting and uncomplicated way to add the little dark spots at the base of each petal, so have added it to several of my Millefiori designs. Here's a sample:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the design from <em>An Artist's Garden</em> (above).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I like to stitch this little Glory Bee!! whenever I can - it's made with black Glory bullions, gold Glory or metallic-thread bullions, and the Millefiori Knotted Loop Stitch for wings. It's less than 1/2" long:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the second photo above, I used 2-3 straight stitches when I used metallic thread for the gold stripes. By the way, my favorite gold thread is the DMC gold that I find at JoAnn Stores in their craft department -- it's on a spool and has 3 strands woven together, and is very durable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Grapes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I named this technique "Lazy Tendrils" (formerly known as Travelin' Tendrils). These are made with elongated lazy daisy stitches, easy as pie. You can add them to any design just by practicing your penmanship (lower case, cursive letter "e") with a wash out pen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Grasshopper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, because they are good for you, green beans:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are a couple more -- a hellebore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and a hollyhock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you study these flowers (double click to enlarge), you'll see none are too intricate - these are fairly easy stitches and the traceable patterns are pretty simple. Throughout<em> An Artist's Garden</em>, whenever I had space on a page, I dreamed up a little design using more flowers from the book and other simple stitches. Like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a California wildflower design - I've posted the California poppy previously, and the lupine is coming soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">To finish this session of blatant subliminal advertising, here is a picture of the back cover of <em>An Artist's Garden</em>. I call it "Formal Garden":</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Rosalie</span></em></div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-5961786441105471762017-04-22T18:20:00.002-07:002017-04-22T18:20:58.754-07:00My New Book is Finished!! Forever Flowers -- 50 Flowers in Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--ALMOST finished. It will be on its way to the printer early next week. Watch this space, or my Millefiori Facebook page, or my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> for more details. A fabric print will also be available. You can also <a href="mailto:RWRW@comcast.net" target="_blank">email me</a> for price, postage, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My first book was "My Stamp Collection" -- 50 flower designs from a U.S. Postage Stamp set. I've named this book "Forever Flowers" ... flowers that will last as long as you like, 50 new flower designs. Here's one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And another:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And another:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My cheering section (Cuthbert, who else!) is sad that I'm finished -- He likes to park on my floss and keep it warm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that's OK. More time for him....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Very soon I'll start posting color detail photos for the flowers (you are welcome to copy these blog pages for reference if you like), and explain what I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now I'm off to rip fabric for fabric prints -- give me a couple of weeks. Stay tuned. This has been SO much fun~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It all depends on one's color direction/choice. This is my Millefiori design #8006 (details at my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a>). I've seen it at pinterest.com so often that I thought I'd write about it here, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I named it "South of the Border" and described it as a "lily bouquet" with lacelike chiffon lilies, Amazon asters, fan flower, Argentine weeping lilies, a lollipop lily and the rain lily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is scaevola, or an Australian native also known as the "fan flower" and is usually blue, pink or white.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make a Brazilian dimensional embroidery version of this flower that attracts butterflies (shown) and repels deer (too big for this design...), I selected the blanket stitch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make it 'dimensional', I chose to make the bullion petals with blanket stitch, worked clockwise with our 100% rayon Z-twist floss (manufactured by <a href="http://www.edmar-co.com/">www.EdMar-co.com</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It helps to make really 'good' bullions, but in case they don't all work out, I decided to cover the base of the stitches with a cast-on cover-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the short version of what I did, in pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above: I started with a lazy daisy bullion. The second bullion is anchored into a blanket stitch as shown at the upper right. Sometimes you need to convince these bullions that you and they are on the same page. You can do that by going through the fabric and bringing the needle up in the correct position (especially if you work with a hoop or frame). That's what I did in the three pictures shown below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It really works - you just need to convince it that you are running the show and that it will be beautiful and lovely and gorgeous when it's all finished. See, below? It's starting to agree with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the basic process, and below is the finished flower:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--with any little 'disagreements' covered with the cast-on calyx. Here's a close-up of the finished flower on the design:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's always fun to play with leaves, too. Here I stitched the leaves with pink veins. Because the green is so dark, there is space between two of the leaves to give them a bit of separation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a detail picture of another of the flowers - the Teacup Flower:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The focal flowers at the top of the design are Chiffon Lilies. At various times, I've stitched them with different colors, or reversed colors:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used the cast-on pistil stitch to make the stamens (I've described this step-by-step on this blog if you do a search). The petals are drizzles, stitched with a variation of the "Archie" we all know and love. Remember: Archie R.A. Drizzle (the Latin: <em>Archiara drizzle</em>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have these and a lot of other flowers and dimensional stitch techniques in "My Book of Stitches" (Millefiori #8000) - aka, The Pink Book:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh~ And here's the butterfly. When I stitch butterflies, or flowers, or anything, I'm always trying to think of how I can use our B.E. dimensional stitches. This little one, though, is not - I used just simple stitches. By the way, I like to make a bullion for the butterfly by starting with a fly stitch and using the bullion (body) as a tacking stitch. The wonky eyeballs shown below are French knots (although colonial knots are more dimensional).</span></div>
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And now I think I'll flutter away -- I am working to finish my new book of fifty brand new flowers, "Forever Flowers". I'll let you know as soon as it's ready, will also post pictures.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vernal Pools. I learned something new today ...even though I'm in Oregon, I discovered that California has "Vernal Pools" -- temporary little lakes that sprout all sorts of life. (In the Midwest, we called them "Mud Puddles")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">--and then I realized: I have a "vernal pool". Here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With 7" of rain this month (and 41" since October '16) we have a very pretty "vernal pools" that develop in low spots -- and lookie, lookie -- we even have green slimy stuff around the edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I will have to add more Nice Dirt here unless I want to stock my 'vernal pool' with little fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We did have company the last time this 'vernal pool' formed. The thrush has been splashing around and having lots of birdie fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luckily, the pansies I planted are on "high ground". . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was wondering where I was for a whole month. I found me in my garden and found my dragon there, too. First of all, this is the daffodil.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were two of them blooming in my Oregon garden this morning ... in March, already. I snapped this picture with my trusty camera and didn't have to do any "magic" to it ...well, its aroma is totally magical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've just finished editing the second Education Projects book for our Brazilian dimensional embroidery group, <a href="http://www.bdeig.com/" target="_blank">BDEIG, Inc</a>. It's going to be a good one - lots and lots of projects to stitch. More on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fabric print available, instructions are in the book -- available at my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a><em>. </em>A lot of people already have my book; if you'd like the print, send me an email and let me know if you would like a cream or a white print. I'll let you know the cost plus postage and you can do the PayPal or check thing to get it on its way to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, back to the little dragon. Here are a couple of detail pictures to entertain you. (He's harmless unless you stick yourself with your needle) Here he is napping on his nose (also known as a "detail photo")</span></div>
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And here he rolled over on his back:</div>
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There were lots of other Cutie Pies. This next one I called a Barnyard Dragon:</div>
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...and I think those dimensional stitches we do come in pretty handy. If you scroll back up, you'll see that I used various animal tracks to separate each of the Cutie Pies (even the edge border).</div>
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And then I stitched this little pelican, another of the Cutie Pies. He's just been out fishing - nice he has a place to store his fish.</div>
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So now I'll go back to work. By the way, I've been posting on Facebook. I have a Millefiori page there, but there are also a couple of really interesting Brazilian embroidery groups you might like to visit. </div>
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This is the OTHER daffodil I saw this morning. It's the start of my daily circuit around my garden with my camera. I saw a camellia bud the other day, and the snowbells are blooming everywhere (they think they are weeds, but I don't -- I like them all). Daffodil ahead:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was thinking about trellises. So I thought I'd jot a few notes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> These are a couple of my older Millefiori designs for Brazilian dimensional embroidery. They are also posted on my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a>. I don't have a lot left, so please email me to be sure they are still in stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This first design is #926 "Garden Party". First I did all of the dimensional embroidery with EdMar's 100% rayon floss.</span><br />
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I even stitched that vining rose on the trellis with a new idea - the Continuous Drizzle, and then I did the same with the leaves on the tree at right. This is the climbing rose:</div>
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After I made the vines - some green, some pink - I attached them to the trellis - sometimes with the pink color (to add another rose).</div>
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So then, I wondered what would happen if I got a little more creative. I had an 8x10" shadowbox and some beads. I decided to stitch the entire design with anything except rayon floss. Here's a picture.</div>
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Lots of bead shops have flower beads. One of my favorite sources is beadcats.com (probably because they have so many flowers and leaves). I have some 1/8" rayon ribbon floss. It's on spools, so I can pull off 5-6 yards at a time if I want as I'm making a continuous drizzle.<br />
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By the way, I do have the tutorial for the Continuous Drizzle available as a pdf file. If you'd like a copy, please email me by clicking on the "Love and Peace Rose" (from my garden). My email addy is also on my website.<br />
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Back to the fun~~ The fence back there on the right is made with toothpicks that I painted white with my trusty acrylic paint (also couldn't find any fences at the craft store that were small enough). The background is layered sheer 4" ribbon or other sheer fabrics in 'outdoor' colors, getting darker as the design came closer (depth). Here is a detail photo:<br />
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The kitty on the lawn chair is a button. You can see those little rubber duckies peeking out. They are floating on a piece of mirror (to suggest a pond) that I pulled out of an old compact.<br />
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Oh - and that trellis. . . Well I "built" this one from balsa wood and painted it, but since then, I've found you can do an online search for 'doll house trellis' and find all sorts of trellis pieces that would fit perfectly.<br />
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Some time later, I had the idea to design a 'companion piece'. This is Millefiori design #969 "Wishes and Dreams". I had ideas for more new flowers, so fit them into this design. In addition, this is another of my "Where's Waldo's" of B.E. - with the kitten, the owl and the bunny, plus a couple of flower fairies.<br />
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....oh, yes -- and I have a "Wish" and a "Dream" -- that I could have more time to make even more.</div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-46175966976761910872017-01-19T14:52:00.002-08:002017-01-19T14:52:13.053-08:00Warty Old Frog (with Flies) and a Four O'Clock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> These are a few additional designs I'm sharing from my book "An Artist's Garden". The book's pictures are in black and white, so you can save these pictures into your file if you'd like color reference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January in western Oregon, USA, and there is snow. It's up past my ankles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's hugging the trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's even taken over one of my favorite summer stitching spots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I move my stitching time indoors. It's time to share more of the Brazilian dimensional embroidery flowers I've published in my book, <em>An Artist's Garden:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read more at my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> at "Books by Rosalie Wakefield". Meanwhile, here are a few more pictures in color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Simple stitches are used to make this pretty Floss Flower <em>(Ageratum) --</em> straight stitch, buttonhole stitch, and a bead at the center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are all small designs, traceable (although there is a pre-printed design with all of the flowers and veggies).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Speaking of veggies, here's one - an eggplant that makes one ponder the age-old ponderment (I think up new words now and then, too...) "Which came first, the chicken or the eggplant??"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, it's a fairly scrawny chicken, so it is probably saved from the stewpot. It looks better in Brazilian embroidery anyway - the 100% rayon Boucle makes lovely chicken feathers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the English Daisy <em>(Bellis perennis)</em>, not too different from the Floss Flower shown above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a note written with the instructions that mentions that white or light flowers will stand out against white background fabric if you surround them with a frame of greenery or fine growth, or change the color of the flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brazilian dimensional embroidery has lately removed itself from the fine growth we all used in The Olden Days. Now we tend to direct our attention to the actual flowers. But fine growth (couched Glory in greens with French knot 'field flowers' added. Here's an example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These pictures are from one of my older Millefiori designs, #921 "Twelve for Tea", featuring floral designs from <em>My </em>LadyFlowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are several methods for stitching fine growth, all described in my most recent book, <em>My Book </em>of<em> Stitches. </em>They are Airy Fairy credited to Virginia Chapman of Floss Flowers Plus, my original Automatic Couching and Brazilian Couching. Stitchers can also add fine growth with feather stitch or fly stitch, or can also try the technique I call "R.M. Couching" (named for B.E. designer Rosie Montague and illustrated in her book, <em>Brazilian Three-Dimensional Embroidery)</em>.<em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> </em>I used her technique for the pictures shown here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The difference between Rosie's couching and the Airy Fairy couching is that Airy Fairy starts with a long, long stitch which is then tacked and couched back to the flower with side branches and the addition of French knots. Rosie's couching also starts at the flower, but all stitches are short (about 1" long) and all subsequent stitches, also 1" long, sprout from the sides of the original stitch, building from the flower up and out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in <em>An Artist's Garden, </em>here's the Flower Girl - a design approximately 2" tall. I've mentioned previously that these little designs will apply nicely to crazy quilts, wearable art, needle books, or any other spot where people can stop you and say, "Oooooh, what's that?", and you can proudly answer, "Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery! Here! Let me show you how!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a new year, I thought it would be fun to give my blog a new look. Just like shopping for fabric, it took a while to decide on the 'perfect' colors to dress up these pages (especially since I like them all). I'm also going to update my </span><a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.Millefiori-BE.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> website. That's next. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, however, I'm sharing a freebie "challenge" design with my fellow Brazilian embroidery stitchers:</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Mynah, All Mynah"</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes! It's black. On black. (The "Where's Waldo" of the avian night world~~)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm posting pictures here, but all of the instructions (with pictures) are free as a pdf file.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> If you would like a copy, please send me an email (go to the "About Me" page on this blog for my email address). I'll send the file out by return email. I'm requesting that (because of copyright issues) you ask for a copy for just yourself. If a friend would like one, please ask them to send a note to me separately. Thanks! Respecting copyrights is a perk for those of us who design; your tacit agreement is our encouragement to make more designs for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I designed this black bird for those who do NOT like to stitch on black or dark fabrics. I encourage you to give it a try anyway; you might enjoy it. (You might also enjoy turning this birdie into a blue bird or a red bird/cardinal, or use the colors of your choice for both bird and background fabric.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mynah bird, for those of us who like sparkly things, is easy to relate to. Those who do dimensional embroidery are also attracted to the shiny rayon colors and are enamored of beads, specialty threads, ribbons. The Mynah (or Myna) Bird is related to the starling. Other black bids attracted to shiny objects are the crow, the blue jay, magpie, jackdaw, the raven and the bower bird. Hard, shiny things might be a reason why birds don't have teeth. . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I thought about these Sparkle Collectors who swoop in, accumulate a 'shiny' or two and fly back to their nests to enjoy their spoils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">By transferring the traceable pattern to Solvy film, you can easily see where to stitch. This design is 6" x 6" and I mounted it on wooden stretcher bars while I worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our black bird is stitched with black Iris (100% rayon Z-twist floss available from B.E. merchants listed at the <a href="http://www.bdeig.com/">www.BDEIG.com</a> website). Nice. Shiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you scroll back up a couple of pictures ago, you'll notice that shiny eyeball. You can use a 3mm. facet-cut glass bead, but I had some golden sew-down rhinestones in my stash (Swarovski 3188 Lochrosen Rhinestone 3mm crystal) -- extra sparkle, always a nice concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stitched the leaves and branches with green floss, choosing green glass leaf beads from <a href="http://www.beadcats.com/">www.beadcats.com</a> (also available from other bead shops). The object of this birdie's affection is an 8mm faceted bead. These are plastic, but glass is nice, too (I'm an equal opportunity bead lover). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> The adventurous stitcher might opt for small dimensional rolled roses instead of beads (the black bird won't mind), and a nest filled with flowers is an awesome concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That little pink kitten bead hiding in the nest ... I'm not sure how she got there; cats tend to hang out around my embroidery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So. This is my challenge to you. Find a small piece of black or dark fabric. Luckily, I have a collection of dark green-on-black cotton prints (15" x 15") with a poly cotton lining fabric - not many left, but the price is very reasonable. If you email me, I'll send you details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">(that dream within the hearts of us all ....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a pdf file; just email me for a copy - and enjoy the challenge~~</span></div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-74059045213014731392016-12-06T01:16:00.001-08:002016-12-06T01:16:40.288-08:00Cloud Nine, Angels Wings and a Gingerbread House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the winter holidays and am inspired to create Brazilian dimensional embroidery designs now and then. I'm sharing some of my Millefiori designs with you here. They are all posted on my <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> website if you'd like to read more and/or order a copy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of my Millefiori holiday Brazilian dimensional embroidery designs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is #998 "Cloud Nine", another name for flowering dogwood (<em>Cornus florida</em>), one of the most beautiful native American flowering trees - the state tree of Missouri and Virginia and the state flower of North Carolina and Virginia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> The border is stitched with my original Interlocking Stem Stitch (if you stitched "Ruth's Gazebo" you may have tried it already), and the flowers with their distinctive dogwood petals are notched with an interesting technique. I never shy away from beads and other sparklies, and you can see that I used matte size 8/o seeds for the little berries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This design is #838 "Angels Wings" -- stitched with Glory in mostly satin and straight stitch (which is just 'single satin stitch'). </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The wings are colorful caladiums, and the instructions have several versions of 'angel hair styles' to chose from. These both make lovely ornaments or gifts for friends. I used braid around the frame edge to dress this design up a bit.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here's the idea for framing these little ornaments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I had an idea to stitch a gingerbread house in all dimensional embroidery. That was fun! It's a small design and makes a lovely winter tablescape with ornaments and a little candy dish nearby. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> This is Millefiori design #962 "Gingerbread House".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Charms and beads are fun to substitute. The Gingerbread House is framed with holiday greenery and decorated with only the most delicious candies of the season. As you stitch, you can dream on cotton candy clouds, munch on a minty candy roof or doorknob; you can garden with gumdrops and lollipops or treat yourself to a candy-pink cupcake in a chocolate bullion wrapper, or you can wander a candy almond path in search of old-fashioned Christmas ribbon candy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I think I gained 5 pounds just stitching this design).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><em> </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A marshmallow snowman with
cinnamon-stick arms and chocolate chip eyes adds to the sweetness of this BE
design. Stitches include criss-cross satin stitch, Brazilian outline stitch,
raised buttonhole stitch, knotted buttonhole stitch, Star-Fill, the Barbed
Bullion, and a Millefiori stitch named “Stretch.” It’s a real temptation to
embellish this design with beads and other sparklies, but no beads are needed –
the beautiful rayon floss does the job all by itself!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">By the way, I've found flowers in one of my books, "An Artist's Garden" that can easily be used to make small ornament-style designs, or gifts for friends or family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Everything is posted at my website (<a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a>) or you can send me a message (on this blog and also at the website) if you have questions. </span></div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-91865754981832882652016-12-03T17:19:00.000-08:002016-12-03T17:19:59.966-08:00Whew! I Almost Lost You All ....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a speedy little note and then I'll be back soon. I almost lost my blog, couldn't post, ruined my whole day not having anyone to chat with. But the tekkies at Blogger helped me, and Google Search added their 2cents. Now I'm back and will have freebie design for you and hopefully (if I don't click the wrong button again...) a new look.</span></div>
Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-25480753038907430542016-08-19T23:28:00.000-07:002016-08-19T23:28:19.860-07:00Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazilian dimensional embroidery: These are cuffs for your wrist with dimensional stitches and/or bead enhancements. The instructions are ready now - a pdf file offered on my website, <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a>. Just look for Millefiori Design #954; as soon as payment is received, I'll fly (via email) the instructions to you. There are 21 pages and lots of photos and diagrams. Here's a picture:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The center design shown is "Celebrations" and has been designed as a holiday cuff with beads added for sparkle. I'd like to thank my friend and fellow B.E. designer, Marsha Johnson/Harvey, for giving permission to use her large central flower for this design:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The third design included in the package is named "Essentials" and here I framed it into a small frame for a narrow wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The time was late 1960's and early 1970's. Brazilian dimensional embroidery wasn't on my horizon for at least 15-20 more years, but I've been stitching since I was a wee smidgeon (a VERY long time ago) - first those dresser scarves and pillowcases our moms gave us, and later (I have no idea where she found them) the large pictures with deer or landscapes, all long/short stitch with 4 strands of Coats & Clark cotton embroidery thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fast-forward to the 60's, and colors trending to avocado green, harvest gold and burnt orange. --And a handy supply of McCall's Needlecraft, Woman's Day and Family Circle magazines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pulled out my embroidery threads and started stitching. The design above (inspired by one I saw somewhere) started with lazy daisy stitches. I circled around and around until I ran out of one color, or got bored. Changed colors and continued to stitch.</span></div>
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Then I went to look for more. This was a tiny 2x2" picture (McCall's Needlework, I think) that I saw on an advertisement. I'll bet I can do that, I thought - and I threaded my needle again. </div>
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We lived in Omaha, Nebraska, at the time. One day when I was flipping through the Omaha World Herald, I saw an ad, just a line drawing in black and white. But I thought it was cute. So I stitched it. Here's a picture:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is long/short or other basic embroidery stitches. The sheep is stitched with lazy daisy stitches worked around and around. I <em>did</em> have a lot of fun. </span></div>
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After we moved to Oregon and I discovered Brazilian embroidery in the late 80's, I had lots of fun playing with these newly-discovered dimensional techniques. And when I ran out of things to stitch, I suddenly realized that I could probably draw my own ideas. So I did.</div>
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So. If I can do it, so can you! Just remember: our flowers are circles, ovals or triangles; our leaves are heart-shaped. Animals are mostly circles and ovals. Have fun! Easy as pie.</div>
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P.S. By the way, our kitchen appliances in Omaha were Harvest Gold.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my interpretation of the Desert Dewdrop in Brazilian dimensional embroidery. It is very simply stitched with Boucle, and Swarovski crystals add sparkle at the flower centers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">And a dragonfly. Sparkly Kreinik fibers make wings that are almost transparent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Traceable patterns and instructions for stitching these little designs may be found in my book, <em>An Artist's Garden</em>, available at my website: <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> and at Amazon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are found in "An Artist's Garden", my book (Rosalie Wakefield) of small traceable designs suitable for any item ... a small frame, a greeting card, crazy quilt or any wearable item. The instructions are written for Brazilian dimensional embroidery (Z-twist rayon thread, very beautiful; looks like silk), but creatively experimenting with any thread (S-twist; known as <em><u>dimensional</u></em> embroidery) and adding beads, buttons, anything sparkly, is encouraged, especially since YOU are the artist.</span><br />
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Here is my interpretation of the daffodil:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's simply stitched with the Brazilian outline stitch, reverse lazy daisy, straight stitch and cast-on stitch. Simple. Easy. Fun.</span></div>
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This is a dahlia:</div>
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And keeping in mind that one person's weed is another person's wildflower, here is a friendly little Dandelion:</div>
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The book's back cover has a design I call "Formal Garden". You can select flowers from the book or make up your own "theme" design such as "Flowers of the Month", or use this design as printed:</div>
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That pretty little pansy in the second row up there is one of my favorite flowers. I'll post it as soon as I get through the flowers lined up ahead. I hope you enjoy stitching these flowers. (It's MUCH more fun than weeding my garden, which is what I did today ... in the rain ... in Oregon ... in July ... when it almost never rains.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm continuing to share pictures from "An Artist's Garden", dimensional embroidery designs by me, Rosalie Wakefield. Many are already aware that our Brazilian embroidery is stitched with rayon floss (Z-twist floss), but any threads will work for dimensional embroidery (S-twist floss). I also often add beads or metallic threads for fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a picture of Clematis with an interesting lazy daisy weaving technique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also used this flower on a couple of my Millefiori designs. This is #8011 "Snail Mail":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this earlier design is #952 "Sunbonnet Sue's Sassy Sister"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've added the color photos for a couple of other "An Artist's Garden" designs - first the Clivia:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And "Coral Bells":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you enjoy these small, easy-stitch designs, you might have fun with Millefiori designs #828 "Flower Patch" and #829 "Veggie Patch" - these are pillow-size prints.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll find them all, and many more, at my website <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a>.</span></div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-53202370477741878382016-06-23T16:53:00.001-07:002016-06-23T16:53:35.467-07:00Fairy Trees and Umbrellas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="du4ep-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery Guild, <a href="http://www.bdeig.org/">www.BDEIG.org</a>, each year asks members to vote on a Flower of the Year and a Theme for the coming year. In 2017, the Flower is named "Fantasy Flower" (and it can be as Fastastic-sy as anyone wants). The Theme for the year is "Fairy Gardens".</span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="du4ep-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have the perfect book full of small traceable designs using mostly Glory and Iris - "An Artist's Garden", and here is a continuation of more little designs that I've been sharing in color. (Book available at my website: </span><a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.Millefiori-BE.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and also from Amazon) The first flower is the centaurea, commonly called perennial bachelors button or cornflower (perfect little parasols for a fairy...):</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had so much fun that I pulled out my beads, ribbon and sparkly threads, plus all sorts of little odds and ends and stitched a beaded version (I used sheer fabrics for the background, layered over the screen-printed fabric). I set it into a shadow box, found a bit of broken mirror and some of my polished rocks and a little rubber duckie and created the pond on the 'floor' of the shadow box:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have detail photos of this project if anyone would like to see them. That trellis is made with balsa wood (I think I could have found one already finished at the craft store...) and the fence is stitched with flat toothpicks that I painted white. (Yes, I have too much time on my hands...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A few years later I designed Millefiori #969 "Wishes and Dreams":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This design has a couple of little flower fairies -- actually "22-Stitch (give-or-take-a-stitch) Flower Fairies" flitting around:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are "related" to my famous "22-Stitch (give-or-take-a-stitch) Hummer"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now I think I'll fly on out of here for the moment. More soon ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As promised forever ago, here are more of the little designs from my book, <em>An Artist's Garden</em>, by me (Rosalie Wakefield). I have it at my website, but it's also available from Amazon.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There is the calla lily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is a crop of carrots stitched with "Carrot Feathers" greenery.</span></div>
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Next, in alphabetical order, is my design named "Cat, Tails".</div>
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Very simple stitching using double cast-on stitches for the cattails. (Uh, oh. Cuthbert doesn't think it looks a lot like his magnificent self.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who would have ever thought how easy it is to stitch a realistic cauliflower? Just think! Brazilian dimensional embroidery is not only beautiful, fun and exciting - it is also nutritious!</span></div>
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As I wrote earlier, if you are stitching the patterns in the book, you can save these pictures for reference. They are all in <em>An Artist's Garden,</em> and there is also a fabric print with all of the designs. I made mine into a little "I-Spy" art quilt.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think what fun it will be to take your scissors (instead of pruning shears), needles, threads and fabric and sit in your garden and stitch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This little floral design - my interpretation of Sea Lavender or Statice - is stitched with Brazilian dimensional embroidery's rayon floss using blanket stitch for the leaves, The Comma (a combination cast-on and bullion that I developed ages ago), and something new -- the Donut Drizzle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm using Frost-weight floss, #220 periwinkle. Here's how. Make a little "x" on your fabric. Bring the threaded needle up from fabric. Unthread the needle and place it, pointed end down, into a sturdy pincushion. Cast-on 9 loops, drizzle style, over the eye of the needle. Keep the loops nice and even along the needle. Now re-thread the needle (see above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Slip a pin or needle into the upper drizzle loop (temporarily). Push the threaded needle (holding the cast-on loops) down through the fabric and out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Next, bring the threaded needle up right next to where you began your drizzle. Bring the threaded needle all the way through and slip it into that upper loop where the pin is inserted. You can remove the pin now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Holding the loops (so they won't twist), gather everything into a circle, nice and snug. You might need to do a bit of adjusting, but you'll end up with a pretty little circle (or donut) of cast-on loops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">This is the flower. It's just a drizzle, gathered into a circle. Isn't that fun?~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">To finish, the sea lavender needs a center, so I threaded up a strand of Cire #034 (shaded periwinkle) and made a colonial knot in the center. I like to use a colonial knot instead of a French knot just because it's more dimensional, but it also looks very orderly. Like an orderly donut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Cuthbert offers to hold his thumb (well, I guess it would be a finger since cats don't have thumbs) on the knots, but I gave him a nice pet, pet, and told him to go back to sleep. I think it was the thought of a REAL donut that got his attention:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Here's a picture of the finished Donut Drizzle with the Colonial Donut (er, I meant Knot) in the center. Give it a try - it's so easy and makes lovely little filler flowers. Yum.</span></div>
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Rosaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00753620499897510071noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087622572771604419.post-25044965183387409442016-05-15T18:43:00.001-07:002016-05-15T18:43:34.667-07:00Lazy Stitcher Discovers Handy-Dandy Hint<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, not Cuthbert. He's a big fluffy ball of "Lazy" most of the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This time I'm talking about myself. I was making some long-tailed fly stitches with Glory (most of our Brazilian dimensional embroidery designs are printed on Blazer Poplin or Trigger).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, SOMEHOW a KNOT appeared in my Glory floss (about 2-3" up). Didn't feel like clipping and knotting off, so.... I found a larger needle and inserted it in the same spot where the knot stopped. Had a bigger hole in the fabric and pulled the knotted floss right through. The fabric threads seal immediately, no problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> I'll be past the knot after the next leaf or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My next project will be to look for an area where I have space to stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">California poppies remind me of sunshine. The little Glory B! thinks so, too. When I wrote my book, <em>An Artist's Garden,</em> if I had space on a page, I added a traceable pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to the poppies, I stitched a few lupines to finish this California landscape idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some additional Brazilian dimensional embroidery designs from the book <em>An Artist's Garden</em> by myself (Rosalie Wakefield) -- available at my <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> website or from Amazon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I have this cute little bunny and some butterflies for you. You can see that these little critters are put together with very simple stitches, some dimensional and some traditional hand embroidery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The buddleia, or butterfly bush, is stitched with easy knots. These flowers are differ from lilacs by the shape of their flower heads. I also have a lilac that I'll share later, stitched with a different technique. Buddleia flowers are very attractive to butterflies. From this close-up, you can see that this swallowtail is very simply stitched. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">By the way, if you like butterflies, you might enjoy Millefiori design #951 "Seasons of the Butterfly" -- those flowers and their flying friends are more detailed; larger flowers, larger butterflies. (It is one of my favorite designs, brag, brag...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Meanwhile, here is another butterfly from <em>An Artist's Garden.</em> I named this one a Bluet Butterfly:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It can be very pretty stitched with a glittery metallic thread. Think about shopping the Sulky Threads of Kreinik fibers the next time you are at your local fabric store -- lots of pretty metallic and other thread textures. Sulky makes a very pretty thread called "Prism". These are sewing-machine weight threads, lighter than Glory, but still nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> And, of course, you can see that I like to add beads whenever I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the Fly Stitch Butterfly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I named this one "Prairie Butterfly". Stitched it with some prairie grass - how easy is that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These butterflies are such fun to add to your embroidery, or they can become a lovely motif for a crazy quilt patch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> If you are adding butterflies or bees or little birdies to your Brazilian embroidery, charms and beads are also nice, but don't overlook earrings - some can be up-cycled very nicely for your project. The main suggestion would be to keep them as close to scale for your flowers as you can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look what just flew into my blog - the little bluebird of happiness! From time to time, I've promised to post color photos from my book, <em>An Artist's Garden,</em> by me, Rosalie Wakefield. Here is a picture of the book cover:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's available at my website <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> and also at Amazon. The book has all traceable patterns with instructions, but if you'd like to have them already on fabric to stitch, this print (print only) is available, too. It's #958 "I Spy - Flower Patches". Here's a picture of mine; I made it into an art quilt:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll recognize some of these little treats from two earlier Millefiori designs #828 (Flower Patch) and #829 (Veggie Patch) -- still available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">More photos later, but here is another - the little Blackberry Lily:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The book is available at my website: </span><a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.Millefiori-BE.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, also at Amazon. <br /> See how easy the astilbe is! Y</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ou can just look at a flower shape and decide which of our dimensional stitches translates it best. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asclepia is commonly known as The Butterfly Weed. I designed this stylized version for my book, <em>An Artist's Garden</em>, which is available at my <a href="http://www.millefiori-be.com/">www.Millefiori-BE.com</a> website and also at Amazon.com. I thought this version would make an interesting little border or addition to a crazy quilt or wearable item. Instructions are in my book, but you can see the stitches are fairly simple. Here's my book:</span></div>
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By the way, the Butterfly Weed, a member of the milkweed family, is a larval food source for monarch butterflies. I designed another version of this "weed" [such an impolite term for a flower!] for one of my favorite Millefiori designs, #951 "Seasons of the Butterfly". Here's a picture:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is a close-up of another version of the Butterfly Weed, Asclepia:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I stop, I thought it would be polite to add a little nutritious supplement from <em>An Artist's Garden</em>. Here is my version of the Asparagus:</span></div>
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