Inspiration Block Continued

Last week I was able to get a little more done on my inspiration block. The lovely flower motif was in the wonderful goodies sent me from my group stitchmap for being the 100th member. The two bigger leaves were some I got from a lacebuy. I don't get much stitching time, but I have found something I can work on some to keep my creative juices going. I know you've heard about Zentangles, one of the biggest things going on now. I have found I can work with this while the baby is playing. He's not that interested in my sketchbook and pens , but let me pull embroidery work out and he is all over that. lol! Will be posting what I got done this week with Zentangles in the next post.

Inspiration Block

I finally got to work some more on my inspiration block. I decided to thread paint the spider's body, used stem stitch for the legs, and bullion for the little feelers or whatever they are called at the mouth of the spider.
It's been such a slow process, I don't get to do much stitching anymore but that's ok cause I know in time I will be able to again.

Inspiration Block

In one of my groups I belong we started what is called CQ A-Z Study. Below is the block I made for this project. I have always wanted to be able to make a balanced block. So I chose for my theme Victorian. So I copied on paper the motifs I wanted to put on this block and put them where I want them to be. So below is what I've gotten done so far.


I thought since I would be doing some goldwork on this block that I would add some gold colored sequins and beads to kind of highlight the center of the flower on the lace.
Then I used Krenik Japanese Gold thread to make the spider web. I couched the gold with Krenik Cord. I will be adding some leaves and flowers along the top and sides of the web. I am working on the spider going to try to make my first stumpwork spider. We will see how that turns out.