Flower Bouquet....

My blue page for Jenni was inspired by us both finding time to finish pieces of canvas work over the past year, old projects that had laid forgotten and forlorn but now come to the surface. There is a comfort and joy to be taken from the picture gradually filling in with colour and thread, along with the rhythmic plying of the needle in and out of the canvas.

So... I started by painting a small square of canvas, then began to fill it in with a millefiori of flower heads in varying blue shades of cotton and silk threads. Stage one completed, life events paused progress.

But what a delight to then be able to  pick it up and add some favoured blue fabric pieces from my stash- a piece of our eldest daughters first party dress, a snippet from a sundress of my mother from the 1960s or ‘70s.....

Then onto more flowers, making Suffolk puffs from Liberty tana lawn floral prints, or scraps of silk. And paintbox out again to dye some of Granny’s old linen buttons, cut off and saved from shirts long ago.

Blend the edges in with more lazy daisy stitched flowers, French knots, wonderful for adding texture and space filling!  Final touches, bring on the bling!

I think we all feel that stitching these pages for one another is very rewarding, and we are so looking forward to being able to exchange them in person before then having fun compiling them into our books of colour!
Thank you for reading my waffle!
Debbie