November Meeting 2012 Everlasting Landscapes Anne Covell

Our meeting this month was taken by one of our own members Anne Covell who had entered the competition run by Stitch magazine to produce an Everlasting Landscape. Anne's entry was considered good enough to feature in Stitch and can be seen in the pictures of the entries below.

Anne's embroidery is top row, middle

Ann explained how first we needed to produce a design  and she showed us how the measurements needed to be precise for the area in which we were going to work particularly the end points so that they would fit together to make a continuous embroidery.

The colours for the background were chosen so that they would be similar when joined together

We drew and coloured our designs so that we had some idea which colours we would be using and where.

We transferred our design to a back ground fabric and proceeded to applique from the back. A couple of members decided to stitch in needlepoint.

 

Most of us finished our designs and started the applique and stitching which we are going to finish at home. We will then mount the embroideries and bring them back to the December Meeting where they will be our Christmas competition.
Hopefully they will all fit together to make an Everlasting Landscape and all be a good as Anne's!
Thank You Anne for a very interesting day and introducing us to something we had never tried before.