WIP's Corn 2013

Corn No. 1

Corn No. 2

Corn No. 3

Natural dyed cotton fabrics, timtex, machine stitching, aurifil threads.

Organizing Fabric Stash Leads to Found Samples!

Believe it or not the fabric in that suitcase really is organized!  While I was searching for piece of unfinished silk fabric I found my long lost stitched sample I had been looking for late last fall. 

Due to the sample of the rights disappearance, deep into a pile of folded fabrics, I made another sample to pratice some machine stitching on.  Both sample pieces consist of cochineal dyed cotton fabrics and are machine stitched.  The left sample, however, has been surfaced further using fabric paints, oil bar, and ink.  I'm thinking the sample on the right could use a good dose of color as well.

WIP - White Elk Series

Blue Moon in progress

Painted and stitched timtex, blue moon indigo dyed silk organza net.

Corn No. 53

Corn No. 53 - Madder Root dyed cotton fabric, cochineal dyed silk organza net. Machine stitched.

WIP - Bin

WIP - Stitched up this small bin piece after I rearranged the studio this evening.

Blood River Canyon No. 4

Blood River Canyon No. 4

2010

17.5 x 24 inches

Silk Crepe de chine, Silk dupioni, Flax, and Wool batting,

Natural Dyes, Machine Stiched.

New Series WIP

WIP Canyonlands - panoramic stitched series.

Compost dyed silk fabric

Now I need to dye some fibers to accompany these new pieces.

Prairie No. 11

Prairie No. 11 - 2010

Natural Dyed, Compost Dyed, and Rust Dyed Cotton Fabric.

Machine Stitched. Mounted to canvas on stretcher bars.

16x24 inches

WIP - Prairie

WIP - Prairie

8x8 inches

machine stitched/sketched natural dyed fabrics on canvas

Exhibition Update - 6 of 8 pieces almost finished, these will be matted and framed. John is making the deep frames for me out of poplar which will then be painted black.

Sampling

Natural Dyes:  Cochineal, Kamala, Weld, Indigo, Copper dye silk

Cotton Quilt batting

Compost Dyed Silk Organza

Machine Stitched

9 x 5 5/8 inches

Prairie Potholes Harvest No. 23

I don't believe I've posted this one in the past, found it in a pile of work tonight while looking for a piece of indigo dyed rusted fabric, the fabric is still MIA.

Red Crow Kneeling WIP

I have some serious stitching to do now especially to the crow woman area on the quilt so that it remains the primary focale point of this piece.

Red Crow Kneeling WIP

Now with more stitching, on to the hand stitching and embellishing.

WIP

I'm thinking of cutting this scarf down the middle and having two pieces, two different stories and am wondering, color wise, how this will work for my harvest series.

Detail of the colors.

Corn Head Girl

4 x 6 inches
It needs some dots and circles!!! I'm thinking some silk organza dots could be fun!

This and That No. 3

Update still in progress added some yummies to the right side, I'll finish beading the right side this evening. I haven't decided if there's enough yummies on the right side yet I have some larger pieces of lace I'm thinking of adding first. Once I start adding beads there won't be a surface to stitch through to attach the lace. I may add some aqua/dark turqoise trim on the rights side first to balance the color.

This and That No. 3 Still Beading!

I added some beads to the top of the pom pom fringe and am thinking about encrusting the entire area. I was trying to bring out the dark aqual color in the calico fabric and carry it to the bottom of the piece.

I'm also contemplating adding beads to the red cording at he top of the piece. If I do, and I'm pretty certain I will once my fingers heal up, I'll add some matt gold copper lined 11/0 seed beads as I think this will compliment the colors of the piece and well.

This and That No. 3

This and That No. 2. In Progress. The piece is now ready for additional stitching and embellishments.

This and That No. 2

I started working on T&T altered embroidery no. 2 last night. I managed to get the gingham on backwards after getting all of the stitching to look the way I wanted to ;-(

Stitched