Ginger Cherry

Hand Quilting

Mon 24 Mar 2014

Embroidery

Posted by Ginger under Applique Block, Hand Embroidery, Hand Quilting
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So, I have been away from my website for a while!  Yes, but I have been busy, and now I will try to post more often.  I’m working on posting once a week.  Time will tell!  Recently I have been working on reverse applique and embroidery.  I have a few images today, and I will have more on each soon.  I am timidly moving forward with this blogging!  Too, today I began work on a piece that will be part of a series about madness and genius and how they so often inform each other as with Vincent Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf.  I will have sneak peeks soon with more discussion of my thought process, too.  What is genius?  What is madness?  What happens in artists where both reside?  Are they kin?  Or are they merely in contention?  I have much to ponder…and create…

This piece is the reverse applique. I reverse appliqued the flowers, used french knots for the centers and back or stem stitch for the stems. Then I hand quilted the leaves.

A sort of scarf that I really like, and I like reverse applique. I think I will try more!

Some sample pieces of embroidery for my Simply Stitch 4 class with Karen Ruane. If you haven’t seen her work you should go look! You can find her at http://karenannruane.typepad.com/

 

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• Creating

  • "It was an act of courage to take the scraps of life provided and stitch them together, wrestling the chaos into order, taking what had been cast off and creating something from it, something useful, beautiful, and strong, something whose true value was known only to the heart of the woman who made it." The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kedd

• “Metaphysical midges”

  • "Yes, you must try to rethink what is real. Perhaps It is only a matter of language that traps you. You May yet find a new one in which experience overlaps Words. Or find some words that make the Truth come true." "The Whole Question," by Robert Penn Warren

• Desire

  • "Wunsch's loose lower lip curled in amusement.
    Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he spoke seriously. 'Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing--desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little. It brought Columbus across the sea in a little boat...'"

    The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather

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