Rainbow science

The story of my Quilt is very simple but full of feelings.

It is my belief that a Quilt can tell great stories.  That is why I decided my quilt will not only be geometrical pieces of fabric put together but it will tell a story. I allowed my imagination  inspiration to create each embroidered square.

All the treads that I used in my quilt have been passed down to me from my grandmother. While creating sewing each square I had many memories of my childhood.

I remember being about 3 -5 years old and playing with the threads - I am 43 now!!  By creating this quilt  using these special threads has meant a great deal to me.

 Happy crafting all

 Hugs

 Renata

A brilliant day

Had a great day today .Start in the morning with embroidery guild were I manage to land a job with a presentation next month for the Romanian Point Lace.
Then me and my lovely friend Mildred had to go to Howth were was the annual Craft Competition .
I had to collect all the thinks which had been submitted by my ICA Guild , and there was the big surprise.

Yes is right you see well 3 first prises and a third
Everyone ask me about the gold work and could not believe I did this in 2 hours in  RDS Knitting and stitching show  with RSN .
I have to say I actually was gob smacked of how many prises our guild got all people got something .

A cute display of knighted toys

Chicken scratch display or Gingham embroidery where by chance got lost some crewel work and some quilted pillow which was categorise as blackwork ( the pillow with the sails ). Usually people which submit  the work have to say the category were they compete.

As you can see huge amount of people participating in this competition

The cream of the competition was this beautiful quilt done in a very traditional way

All in all a very good day

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Autumn Symphony

This time is finished and ready for hanging up the wall of the exhibition-competition in Howth  . I am very proud about this project taking in consideration is first to be mount and framed  in totality by me . I got some help with the wire in the back from my lovely support husband but the rest I did.

I have decided to not add the glass as was pressing to badly the embroidery and was shiny .
I am still struggling to find a professional framer which would have the special glass glare free .At the moment I think is good in off just a very plain frame as I need to bring up the embroidery and not the frame.

I do not have big hopes for the competition but I will be very glad to get some feed back so I would know if I am on the wright direction or not.

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Autumn Symphony

Finished and ready for our Annual Crafts Competition from Howth .I need only to frame it which I hope to do tomorrow. We hope here for Spring to come but right now the weather is like Autumn or maybe better say Winter is coming to Ireland.
I always ask my self how did I full my self to come in the country I must have catch a very good weather when I decided to stay.
Maybe I should not complain as this weather is give me the chance to stay in the house and do embroidery after embroidery and so on.

Pictures as always are fuzzy and not very good but at the moment they have to do as I am in hurry to finish another piece so I can move on with the framing

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Internet media trouble

Ha ha ... officially we had been banned from Facebook , YouTube & Twitter in our job place .
I had been outrage in the morning in special for the attitude . They did not have the common courtesy to even notify us about this.
I was mad in special because  I do not have a smart phone so is no way for me to get in there .But I do have a Kindle and a mobile Broad band  ...:):)
Now after 8 hours actually I think they did some good to me personally . I had start to check the WordPress blog again , Pinterest , Stitching Fingers, My Space, Etsy . So I actually realise this will be the best opportunity for me to keep up to date with all other sites.
I actually had an idea to self publish a book about Romanian Point Lace - more of designs and patterns but I was always saying I have no time.
Ha ha ha ... lots of time now

Happy Crafting All
Hugs
Renata

Purple Symphony

Yeah ... I think I decided on the mane of my latest crewel work : Purple Symphony .
Made some more progress on this one but I am struggling with the stitched for the ground .
I am having hard times with the wool quantity as I have a skein of each colour and by mistake I start another little project with same colour . My big problem is will take me about 2 weeks to get in the wool and time to go by to London to RSN is approaching fast , so no time!!!
Anyway I will be figuring out this weekend if I am going to pull this on or I have to do another order.

 Some bullion stitched for the petals of one of the flowers.

 My little bird inspired by the screen from RSN

 OK ... here is a big problem which you can see in the form of a yellow mushy think around the leaf
I did not realise the lines still can be seen until I took the picture.

 And here looks like I have fixed the mushy think or I didn't?

Some of the closed Cretan stitch which will be part of the ground .
Sure this week I be finish this one.

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Gold Work Embroidery Sampler - progress

A bit of progress done in my Gold work Sampler .
Lots of kid leather which I had used with string padding , felt padding and scrunched up .
 All this different techniques of using kid leather are nice on they own . Is seams I find the one with string the most difficult but I do presume with practise will go better.   

 This little piece from the leaf which looks so empty here below have to be fill in with bright check chips .
And there is a bit of trellis in green which I still have to decided if it is to be fill in with something.

 A bit of try to Or Nue

 An overview of the work already done .

I hope this is going to come out nice in off.
The background is an green velvet which in the pictures looks nothing like the real one.

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Flowercopia on the wall

Another UFO finished !!! Finally I manage to finish my third big design . The lace had been finished from last year but as with many other things I do not always give that professional finish.
Now this time I had been setting the lace on the top of a canvas covered in black velvet.

I am actually impress my self about how good is looking.
Is a very complex piece with lots of needle point stitches and is taking a contemporary idea of using lace. Is no need to love vintage to have this on a wall.
I have to say it brought a lot of colour on my siteroom wall.

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata

Romanian Point Lace Presentation at An Grianan

Finally my presentation of the Romanian Point Lace took place last night .

A little overwhelming taking in consideration was around 80 people attending .

Anyway happy of a good ending even if I was thinking was a bit short . I did not want to go over 1 hour or 1:30 hours as I know people get bored fast and at some age you are tired and really all you want is to rest .

After I finish the slides presentation I actually enjoy seeing many of the ladies was really curious and was asking questions  and want more details about how you are doing the lace.

 This below are the last crowd which kind of did not want to leave enjoying looking and discussing many of the pieces

In same time even if I was with no photo camera many other people took lots of pics.

For me as usually the camera was out of battery , and look like this is my life story always happen in my important times of my life.
My pictures was taking with the kindle and are not great but the most important thing is the night went well.

Happy crafting all
Hugs
Renata