MAGPIE'S MUMBLINGS

A blog about my interests, which include fabric landscapes and various and assorted other artsy pursuits and sometimes known to contain mumblings of a random nature.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A decision, and some progression too

Thank you to those of you who weighed in on the question of what colour to use for the embroideries to go along with these...



Grey seemed to be the one I felt happiest with and a search through my embroidery floss stash came up with a greenish-grey that seems perfect.  I didn't want an in-your-face colour that would detract too much from the fabrics and, since the flowers I'm embroidering are mostly ones found in the summer, I didn't want to limit myself to making it look too much like 'spring' (if that makes any sense whatsoever).  So, here's one of the flowers..



Hopefully you can tell the colour fairly well from the picture (although it's yet another dull day here and photos are difficult).  There will be seven different flowers - each embroidered in the redwork style and worked on a 4" square of fabric.  

Another of the entries that appeared in my mothers autograph book; this one dated Apr. 29, 1939...


All the luck the horseshoe ever stood for,
Every wish a wish-bone ever knew,
And by every four-leaf clover's magic,
I am wishing that it all may come to you.



14 comments:

  1. I love that color!

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  2. Your flower embroidery is perfect and the color is lovely. Fun links once again and thank you. All the Luck right back to you dear...

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  3. The colour is perfect Mary Anne! Good choice! Looking forward to seeing this all come together! Christine x

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  4. Love the green grey!

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  5. Beautiful flowers, and I love the thread you have chosen! I think it will look great with your patchwork.
    Barbara xx

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  6. Beautifully embroidered flowers, I think your project will turn out great. Thanks for the links, interesting.

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  7. Thanks for the links. Interesting, especially the last one about surface embellishment. The Crazy Quilt classes will have to go on the back burner at the moment.

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  8. Forgot about your flower embroidery - very nice. Colour is just right.

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  9. Love the colour and the flower - gonna be such fun to see how it all turns out.

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  10. That floss color was a perfect choice. I will enjoy watching this project come together!
    xx, Carol

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  11. Looking forward to seeing the end result!

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  12. Love the grey and the flowers. Beautiful.
    xxx

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  13. Nice stuff girl. Its lovely to see your progress!

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  14. your prairie points look fascinating, the fabrics you have chosen....

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