I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday grey and Wednesday too....

Hello!



You may remember these Cotton Reel Prims, I made a while back.

I really enjoyed making them, but they were very time consuming to make.

I wanted to revisit the design, but didn't want to fiddle faddle for hours making them.

The following pages are from my sketchbook...

I thought you may like to follow my thought process,

strange as it may be ...

Below, I wanted to kind of recreate the Prim thing but not as severe in facial expression.

 Getting the expression right, is the key and the eyes say it all.

 

 More sketches.  

I like the thought of flowers growing from the top of a head, an expression of beautiful thoughts....

 Bunny ears maybe???

 Bunny ears and trying to get those eyes right...

 So, I decided to translate these thoughts onto paper.   Old, worn, faded, foxed, lovely old paper.   Using free machine embroidery, not the easiest of techniques, very unforgiving.

Eyes overworked and looking a little demonic here.

 Dirk looks on and wonders why he isn't included in all this???

So here are a few more trials on various old papers.

and here are my three pieces that I am happy with and are now in my Etsy shop.

The back of this envelope was too beautiful to not use.   So I detached it and added it underneath.

I have applied the whole thing onto a very old piece of faded quilt.

She is called 'Lavina Lopsided Lovely'

and she has a passionate love for buttons.

Here is 'Loretta Lopsided Lovely'.

She loves flowers and has flowery thoughts go through her mind all the time.

She smells pretty, like a flower too.

'Lucinda Lopsided Lovely'...her passion is for birds.

She doesn't mind that they stand on her head,

but only one at a time please.

So there we are, from a thought/idea, to final pieces...

from the girls and I,

we would like to say, thank you for stopping by. x