Recently I was rereading Amanda Soule's The Creative Family
where she talks about her family's 'Seasonal Table'. An area where various things are collected to reflect the season. I really liked this idea and wanted to find another way to bring the seasons indoors...and this is what I came up with!The plan is to make a tree, which can then have various things attached to it and changed with the changing seasons. It will take a while I think, and I hope to add to it throughout the year. Ideas are floating around my mind of leaves and snowflakes, flowers and fruit. Some birds, maybe a nest. Some could be velcro, some could be like badges pinned on.
These are the beginnings - I cut a large piece of linen and roughly sketched a tree on some paper (based on a tree I had drawn for one of my illustrations). Next I plan to transfer the outline on to the linen and embroider the outline of a tree...
I would love it if you made this along with me! What projects are you working on at the moment?
3 comments:
Love the idea! Yashar could have lots of fun finding things for you to attach to the tree... Perhaps you could sew felt pockets that look like fruits, and you can fill them with finds as well!
We were thinking of painting a tree in the nursery one of the weekends and putting up small shelves among the branches to display finds from walks, but that'll have to be later on, after I clear my exams!
I have been making hand embroidery patterns for my etsy shop. The current pattern being stitched is a frog with mushrooms. The next one I want to do is a pine cone in an elegant evergreen frame. I suppose these can be considered seasonal images. Maybe I can be more purposeful and create a pattern for each of the seasons. Sounds like a good idea. I'll get right on it. :D
What a nice idea! I'll either be drawing, quilting, or stitching this week.
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