After an hour or so at the machine last night my goddesses are finished. I really love how these cards came out. After doing so much cross stitch recently and with the regimented stitching that involves it has been really refreshing to put something together a little more organically.
I have 4 swap partners in this one so thought I would loosely go with an elements theme, though not keen to come up with something for Air I decided to wuss out and choose forest instead.
I decided to go with the scrap boxes again, and thought I'd use some of the smallest pieces I could find to do a bit of weaving.
Having never done any before I have no idea what the proper methods for weaving are, but I was constructing these backgrounds mainly whilst sat in the car waiting for dh to come out of work (we share a lift to work and I finish a bit earlier than he does so always have a slight wait sat in the car) a lot of pinning was involved in my method so the strips didn't come apart on my lap on in the moving car, lol!
After my strips were weaved together I machine stitched a random wavy pattern over them to secure them down. I wasn't too precious about this and it ended up that some of the interfacing was showing through in places where the stripes moved or weren't ripped straight but I decided to leave this as it was as theme of the cards lend themselves to a bit of imperfection!
Then it was time to add my goddesses and get the needle and thread out.
I had lots of fun stitching some text, I've never tried this before and I was really impressed at how well the words came out, this is definitely something I will play with more in the future. 
Goddess of the Forest
Water Goddess
Earth Goddess
Fire Goddess
10 comments:
Very cool! You know I love the scrappy background a lot.
your woven backgrounds are great -- when I've seen thse done they've always used fusing, making for a fairlky stiff backing...
Those are very neat Angela, and you say those are cards? They sure came out nice. Congratz hun.
Hugs and Bb
Tracey
Just lovely. I love the lettering on the cards . (Was tempted by the GWE meeting-but think I'm too scared)
These are fantastic. I really like everything about them - the woven backgrounds, the goddesses and the stitched words - well done.
Way way cool! I really like the backgrounds as they add so much texture. The goddesses and other details are wonderful.
I adore these! I love how you wove them and I think they turned out great...when in doubt, make it up, that's my motto...Melinda
I really love these cards and if you don't mind I would love to try and make one myself.
Luv annette
Lovely Anglea - great to see you 'working' again - love the hot pink godess too..... mmm.... I see you're getting thru the UFO's....
Love these postcards and the CD piece too. Great colours and use of additional stitched detail.
The tiger is coming along brilliantly as well - you're obviously on a roll :)
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