Who dares to rush into a Pebble Adventure?

[Marjolein Mieras]

 

Do you recognize this?

 

 

It is a free project from "Stitch" from some years ago, you can find it here: http://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/projects/encrustingcalico/i...

We, Deb and Marjolein, have admired that project ever since. Now we have decided to rush into this "Pebble Adventure".

Does anyone want to join us? We can share pictures and experiences here or provide links to blogs or flickr.

[Mosaic Magpie]

Welcome Michele,

The little pebbles are like potato chips....once you start you won't want to stop!  Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.  We try to be helpful and encouraging.  I am looking forward to seeing your pebbles!

Deb

[Michele Crow]

LOL> potato chips...  Thanks Deb.

Mosaic Magpie said:

Welcome Michele,

The little pebbles are like potato chips....once you start you won't want to stop!  Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.  We try to be helpful and encouraging.  I am looking forward to seeing your pebbles!

Deb

[Judy]

Hello Deb.

  You made me giggle today with comparing pebbles and chips. But you are right they are addicting.  LOL   Hugs Judy 

Mosaic Magpie said:

Welcome Michele,

The little pebbles are like potato chips....once you start you won't want to stop!  Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.  We try to be helpful and encouraging.  I am looking forward to seeing your pebbles!

Deb

[Susan Cuss]

I sent a pic to Pat, too. I hope everyone did.

[Meg Mackenzie]

Hello all, I am quite new to Stitchin fingers, but one of the lovely members has directed me toward this challenge and suggested that I share my work here. I am loving all of the encrusted pebbles that you have made. They are all so unique and beautiful. What a great voyage of discovery!

Here's my take on the Jennifer Rochester project that inspired this challenge: I decided to make a whole rockpool for a competition held at my guild:

There are some more detailed pics in my photo gallery. I really enjoyed making this!

[Mosaic Magpie]

Meg,

What a special piece this is!!! I love how it looks as though you have captured the bottom of a stream or the beach at low tide.  What size is this?  Thank you for sharing this with us!

Deb
 
Meg Mackenzie said:

Hello all, I am quite new to Stitchin fingers, but one of the lovely members has directed me toward this challenge and suggested that I share my work here. I am loving all of the encrusted pebbles that you have made. They are all so unique and beautiful. What a great voyage of discovery!

Here's my take on the Jennifer Rochester project that inspired this challenge: I decided to make a whole rockpool for a competition held at my guild:

There are some more detailed pics in my photo gallery. I really enjoyed making this!

[Meg Mackenzie]

Hi Deb, it's about 55x40cm. There are curtain rings, washers and all sorts under there.

[Marjolein Mieras]

Meg, this is really a very special piece. I hope you will send a picture to Pat Winter. May be it is not too late to be in the next issue of her magazine.

What strucks me most is that you let the wrinkles just be wrinkles.  The clusters of "growing things" are so wonderful.

WOW!!!

[Meg Mackenzie]

Thank you, Marjolein. Who is Pat Winter, please? I "trained" the wrinkles to try and make them look like the drifts of sand at the bottom of the pool. It was really the only practical way of dealing with the huge amount of fabric leftover when using BIG forms as the trapped objects. Colonising the rockpool was really the fun part!

[Marjolein Mieras]

Meg, how did you do the green plants? Is that ghiordes knot?

I looked at your other pictures and I must confess I want to make another pebble ;-O

[Marjolein Mieras]

Pat Winter is a crazy quilter. She writes a magazine four times a year. In the summer issue will be an article about the Pebble Adventure. Her blog address is: http://gatherings100.blogspot.com/

There you find her email address. I really hope you are in time for this issue.

[Meg Mackenzie]

Thank you, Marjolein. I'll contact her.

Yes, they are Ghiordes knots using a mixture of hand dyed threads and metallic blending filiment. It makes them terrifically fluffy. Here's a better picture.