Colouring Inside The (Embroidered) Lines

So, I read a cool post from the blog It’s A T-Sweet Day about her Salem Quilt Guild #1 project. It is about her quilt piece that had both embroidery and colouring with crayons on the cloth. I must admit to being entranced. It’s gorgeous and inspiring and I strongly suggest checking the post and blog out!

I couldn’t wait another minute to try it myself 🙂

Not having any crayons (and it being the middle of the night), I decided to improvise with my prismcolour coloured pencils (aka pencil crayons). I don’t know how well this will work because I haven’t tried to heat set the colour yet.

First I found an image that I had stored in my inspiration file. Sadly, I cannot find the name of the artist. Then I sketched it onto muslin, coloured it lightly, and outlined the borders with different outline stitches. I used back stitch, stem stitch, whipped stitch, split stitch, and a little running stitch. At the end I added a bit more colour.

The whole project only took one night and as soon as I see if the colour sets well, I think I will be doing this more often!

So here is the embroidery which I am calling ‘Anemone’. (I wish I could draw as well as the original artist and I am not thrilled about the quality of the embroidery, but for a quick experimental project, it’s not too shabby!)

Happy crafting darlings!

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Source image (artist unknown) for ‘Anemone’ by Renata Bursten, 08/016. Prismcolour coloured pencil and redwork embroidery on cotton.

Sketching complete. Beginning embroidery. ‘Anemone’ by Renata Bursten, 08/016. Prismcolour coloured pencil and redwork embroidery on cotton. (Artist of source image unknown.)

Embroidery Complete. ‘Anemone’ by Renata Bursten, 08/016. Prismcolour coloured pencil and redwork embroidery on cotton. (Artist of source image unknown.)

Final colouring complete, not yet heat-set. ‘Anemone’ by Renata Bursten, 08/016. Prismcolour coloured pencil and redwork embroidery on cotton. (Artist of source image unknown.)