Another month; 31 daily leaves taking us to the beginning of winter.
I really enjoyed this one. My template just has plain leaf shapes but you can adjust and adapt the outlines as much as you want to. I made some of my shapes into oak leaves, for instance, and I added saw-tooth edges to some of the others.
Mostly the stitches are very simple – running stitch, whipped running stitch, couched yarns, seed stitch, straight stitch. They can look really effective in hand-dyed thread, where the colours change subtly or unpredictably. There is nothing very difficult here. If you want to begin this practice yourself, you might find my online course helpful.
There are just two pages left in my cloth book of the year, which seems unbelievable. Pages are each about 9″ x 12″ or thereabouts – September and October in their double page spread (or 61 days of my life):
Between stitches I’ve been playing with Procreate again, taking the tumbling leaves vibe into digital form with some Procreate watercolour brushes. Surprisingly satisfying, though nowhere near as messy as the real thing:
This design is now in my Red Bubble shop and can be printed on all kinds of things.
I don’t enjoy the whole self-promotion side, by the way, but the Marketing Manager post is still vacant and generally you have to do these things yourself.
Next month, boxes:
I find it amazing how these things turn out sometimes. When I designed these templates ten months ago, moving house was absolutely not on our radar. And yet here we are: boxes ready to be stitched, and if all goes well there could be real-life boxes ready to pack. Art mirroring life, or the other way round?
Wow – those leaves!
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Leaves turned out so well. I’d have to add a maple leaf!
Ha! Of course 🍁
Oh I think hagstones & leaves are my favourites!! 🧡
Both very enjoyable 🙂
I like the way you changed some of the plain leaves into oak and serrated. Beautiful stitching, as always!
Thank you Norma 🙂 Yes, very easy to personalise the templates
life imitates art 😉
That’s my feeling too 🙂
Just to say, I hope the move goes OK. It always feels harder in cold wintry weather.
Thank you – yes, I hope it turns out to be a dry day at least! I’d rather be doing this in cooler weather than very hot though.
I hope the box packing goes well and the stitching of boxes provides at least a short period of serenity!
We have no dates yet but we’re hoping that next month will see some progress 🤞🏻
Your handwork is so beautiful. Very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much 😊