Showing posts with label french knots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french knots. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2010

I’m Knot Crazy…

…yet!!!

I showed you the well wishes project not too long ago. Well, I decided to give it a try, but of course, I have to make it my own! I really didn’t want to make the WHOLE thing embroidered, so I took some off white linen and used water colors to paint it.

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I started working on the tree first, since that is what drew me to the project in the first place. So, here’s what’s in my hoop right now:

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Since I have spent so many hours working on this I took a BUNCH of pictures!!

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You can see the felt I put behind some of the layers to create more dimension. 3-12-2010 008

I have learned one thing, though I still love french knots…I absolutely HATE bullion knots! I had a terrible time making them even! At least it’s a tree trunk and they aren’t perfectly even anyways.

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