After a wonderful long weekend over on the West Coast of Scotland I have found yet more inspiration for my textile landscapes.
Last Spring we went to Skye for the first time and I loved all the mellow colours of a landscape only beginning to awaken from Winter. Well this trip to the west was just as inspirational with the landscape just washed clean by snow and ice and still sleepy in it's quietness due to the lack wind and very few people around.
We were blessed with bright days and starry nights, with the lochs like mirrored glass and the tops of the higher mountains still capped with snow.
Last Spring we went to Skye for the first time and I loved all the mellow colours of a landscape only beginning to awaken from Winter. Well this trip to the west was just as inspirational with the landscape just washed clean by snow and ice and still sleepy in it's quietness due to the lack wind and very few people around.
We were blessed with bright days and starry nights, with the lochs like mirrored glass and the tops of the higher mountains still capped with snow.
I decided to have a go at painting Bondaweb for this project. I tried painting some earlier in the month using fabric paints but I only have a few colours and the result was quite muddy so this time I used watered down acrylics.
Because the Bondaweb is attached to paper, it wrinkles as it becomes wet. Ideally I should have worked so that the wrinkles were horizontal but I'll know next time. I painted quite a large piece so I wasn't going to waste it.
Above is the Bondaweb ironed onto some pale blue fleece.
I was then able to needle some toning organza onto the piece then add some free machine stitching.
It has been six weeks since I last used my Embellisher machine. I broke three needles all at once and when I went to get my replacement needles I couldn't find them. So I phoned up to order more only to discover that they had gone from £11 for 10 to £28 for 10! I didn't order them in the hope that the ones I bought last year would turn up. They didn't. I can only conclude that I used them all without realising.
So, rather than leave my poor machine lonely in the corner I bought lovely new needles for it and it is wonderful to be using it again. It really is such a fabulous piece of equipment.
So with a little cottage added and some French knot sheep, here is the finished piece.
5 comments:
This is fascinating! I knew that you could paint on Bonda, but havent tryed it yet......... you've got me thinking. Thanks for sharing this with us. x
The landscape piece looks very nice.
Why don't you shorten hand-needlefelting needles. They are usually much cheaper. My friend has posted some pics in her album:
http://tinyurl.com/yfy9mu3
She uses a "Dremel" for it.
I love your little picture and what a great idea to paint on Bondaweb to make a base colour to work on. I really don't know why embellisher needles are so expensive but it certainly makes me work carefully!!
This lanscape is wonderfull. So, I break often needlefeting.....
This is just fabulous and now i have to try bondaweb !thats about the only thing i havent painted onto yet,thankyou so much for the inspiration !!x
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