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Comment by Frances Taylor on March 28, 2013 at 9:05

Nice textures and colours. Thought I might try thread painting on dyed cheese cloth and soluble film sometime - have you tried that?

Frances

Comment by Judy on March 24, 2012 at 10:01

Beautiful, Beautiful. Hugs Judy

Comment by dawa dente on May 3, 2010 at 16:31

ahhhhhhhhhh very very good

Comment by Linda on May 3, 2010 at 16:14

Very nice Ruth. Flower is wonderful.

Comment by Natalie on May 3, 2010 at 13:00

How did you make the flower stand up - did you stitch it separatel and then attach? What have you done with it now that it is finished?

Comment by pam on June 29, 2009 at 14:59

Oh Ruth this flower is a stunner. What beautiful colours too.
Interested to know what you are going to use it with? Or have I missed a thread of conversation?
Warm wishes from Pam

Comment by Bob Dorr on June 16, 2009 at 21:18

Oh, this is beautiful. Marvelous work.

Comment by Wanda-Maria on June 16, 2009 at 15:06

Ruth ., Beautiful !!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Ruth Lane on June 16, 2009 at 12:11

Heather, the main parts of the flower were done by machine. The free standing part is done on water soluble fabric and with the density of the stitching, you get waves and puckers in the petals. The thread is rayon machine embroidery thread. The stitching is just really dense. The petals are then stitched on by hand and the center stamen part was done with cut machine cord and sewn on by hand.

Comment by Heather on June 16, 2009 at 11:54

That looks great. How did you do the free-standing part? By machine or hand? And what thread did you use? It looks crinkly.