Needle Painting Progress

Welcome back to Arpinotes! I've been working on my needle painting and wanted to share my progress with you.

This is the semi-complete sampler to learn the technique.I chose not to complete the little bird that you can just barely see in the bottom right hand corner. I want to do him closer to the time when I do an animal project. (which may be sooner rather than later, more on that in a minute)

This little flower is the Cerise Anemone. It takes me about an hour for each petal or leaf. It takes another hour or so for set up and about 30 minutes to frame and finish it.  Just as a technique side note. I use a larger than necessary piece of background material and I use a liquid no-fray glue so that I don't have to sew it. It gets cut off at frame -up time, I don't think it would be healthy for the piece to have glue of any kind left on the fibers (can material have health?).

Here is the little Dog Rose. In the book it is called Sunset Alpine Rose. If you have this book you will think I've done something terribly wrong. You see I loved the colors in this little flower but most of the color was toward the center. Now a real Dog Rose is pretty much all a bubblegum pink color so it's just an artistic fancy as far as the color is concerned. Well at any rate I inverted the colors because I loved them so much.

I don't know if colors in pictures ever do the subject justice. Certainly that is the case here. There are 12 colors in this flower. The leaves are almost hinted with olive tones. The petals range from a deep peachy coral to buttery yellow. I really loved doing this flower. It's going to a family member who needs a hug just now. I won't say who because they might read this post!

The finished Anemone went to a dear friend and sister in Christ. I promise not to frame all the projects the same way but I really thought the eyelet lace made them sweet and homey feeling.

  I have several ideas floating around in my head for next projects and I have several that are started but not finished. One of them is a birth sampler. I'm not quite brave enough to attempt it yet but the design is finished and I'm contemplating color schemes now. I'm also thinking of one or more Bible covers and jumping ahead in my needle painting book. May God bless you with more knowledge of Himself today!