Frogging on the Wall Hanging

Put more work into sampling for the Arts and Craft wall hanging. This time looked at the frogs. Again been using the piece and machine quilt method.

The machine embroidery extended the toes and metalic thread create the highlights on the frogs back and legs.

At the moment I am not sure about the background. To try and match the original designs I tried painting the calcio with a brown wash.

As I am still trying to source the more green fabric to create the full hanging.


Started to work on the next part of module 5 working in a new Sketch Book. This part of the module is all about design and colour in nature.

This meant taking images of flowers (thank goodness for gardening magazines) and creating a colour breakdown. I used threads rather than paint as I could sit with the DMC collection matching colours.

Next the module ask for natural designs to be created. These coloured squares were created by using pictures of tree branches, then marking a sheet of paper where the branches come off the branch. These branch measurements were used to mark off the grid. The colours from the flower break down above were used to fill in the squares. The exercise was repeated by measuring a human arm, then the measurements used to draw concentric circles. I need to collect a few photos of tree rings to compare the drawing with.


After completing three of the natural designs moved onto movement. First you are ask to create a smoke image. The paper is held about 2 cm above a candle so that the smoke marked the paper. The smoke images have a plastic sheet over them when added to the sketch book. Then I created drawings of the smoke pictures (not shown).

While looking a movement, from smoke moved to hair. Made sketches of human hair and animals hair.

Next the module moved on to patterns in nature. This next section will need a lot of photos and drawing. To start with you had to find a twig with about 10 leaves. These you had to layout and draw. I took this photo of my leaves as they were already dry. DH and I both like the look of this photo.

Now I am taking each leaf in turn to make a drawing in b/w and colour. Each leaf is the stuck on the same sheet as the drawing with aclear sheet over themfor protection.

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