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ery ill more details will be posted here or at her main website www elegantwhimsies com my name is steve watkins and i am a friend and long time webmaster for judy her family has asked me to help out with the internet aspects of judy s life i have limited access to these blogs and may not be able to update this post we will try to keep this blog updated but due to our limited access that may become a problem i do have unlimited access to her main website and will be able to post updates on her condition there if this blog becomes unavailable to us please check both places for information for people with outstanding orders please contact me at steve starnetservices com and i will do the best i can to help you steve watkins posted by possibilities etc at 12 22 pm no comments sunday february 20 2011 this is a test post this is a test posted by possibilities etc at 9 11 pm no comments wednesday february 16 2011 decorating the topiary with kreinik looking back on the blog posts here i see that i ve been playing with this thing since december 24 i m still playing but it s beginning to be interesting now an experiment it is but i m learning the variables of working with the kreinik on it as i embellish be sure to go to freebies etc to see the new metallic hot wire that kreinik now has a new thing i found it just when i needed it for embellishment trials here anyway back to the decorating for the lower swag i used 12 holographic 002 and it s quite showy in the heavy chain i found at pintangle in sharon b s stitch dictionary incidentally i don t remember if i ve shown this picture before or not the arrows are pointing to my mistakes in not stitch counting symmetrically on these two swags they are supposed to look horizontal when the tree is made into a cone but they should have been perfectly centered like the bottom so far i ve hidden this effect with a generic sillk ribbon flower also i was able since stitch drawing that bottom swag symmetrically i was able to do the chain stitch without tent stitching the line first much easier and of course less time consuming i realize i seem to be jumping around a bit here but this is how i ve developed it so far just a little at a time to try out special effects the feather stitch put down first makes a great background pretty but understated for whatever decides to come next this too is on pintangle in the stitch dictionary i made this bottom shot with a bit of sunlight on it as it was suppose to show the holographic heavy chain it s beautiful in person the feather stitches kreinik 002 4 braid were deliberately made to be irregular but basically as perpindicular as possible to the chain so that they will be positioned correctly when the tree is made into a cone recently i saw somewhere a charming little ornament frame made with twisted dmc memory thread so had to try it with the kreinik metallic it was more difficult to twist due to the texture of the metallic covering but i did find a splendid use for it little candly canes here is a picture of a short length of it twisted as cording you can see this on the other blog as well as a candy cane peppermint made of three cords this is how it looks at the top now i ll let it rest for a day or two posted by possibilities etc at 9 32 am no comments labels kreinik metallics memory thread silk ribbon special effects techniques wednesday february 09 2011 festival of needles this is something i haven t participated in myself but looking at pintangle this morning i saw that sharon b has a great post on it and includes a link to a stitchin fingers site by carole anne about it that she recommends highly do go see posted by possibilities etc at 11 17 am no comments labels trivia web pages monday february 07 2011 remembering madeline she would have been 16 today and oh what plans we had for when she could drive a car i won t dwell on what would have been or might have been like digging for fossils at jackson hole and taking our needlwork with us but will continue to be grateful for the 13 years of bright and beautiful memories she gave me to carry in my heart the little rocking chair is the first thing i painted for her so long ago she wasn t even walking yet her daddy bought the unpainted chair and granny decorated it i took this picture with her pooh as she wouldn t stay still enough for me to get a shot with her sitting in it lots of smiles back then at this point i am thinking about and grateful for the wonderful kind of life she had the colors and gaiety of the rocking chair have the feeling madeline had the important things and for that we are all eternally grateful along with beauty and intelligence she had parents who loved her dearly and loved and liked each other and a little sister whom she alternately adored and detested she had kind of kooky me but very highly productive grandparents with whom i spent a lot of wonderful time an added bonus the other grandmother was a curator at the kimball museum in ft worth and the grandfather taught russian history and civilization and language at tcu there were lots of aunts and uncles too who thought she was wonderful and who added to her life significantly things like kayaking growing fields of lavendar and making soap and enjoying fine science fiction she was blessed with material things also and parents who were wise enough not to let her be spoiled and obnoxious posted by possibilities etc at 11 54 am 7 comments labels family wednesday february 02 2011 painting monet more buried treasure i found more photographs while dumping out ancient files these were dated 1996 so were taken long before i had either a digital camera or a computer there are even shadows at the top right of this one as i had taken it outdoors for good light i painted this for myself copyright thing etc so i never marketed it just to see if i could do it it isn t the prettiest canvas i ever painted but i will say it was the greatest challenge the most difficult and i thoroughly enjoyed it and achieved what i wanted to do being always mindful of painting to make the stitching easy and relaxing i wanted to anchor the lily pads as they float on the water but yet give the water depth and show the reflection of the trees the lilies and their pads appear very colorful but if you look at the close up you can see that there are actually very few colors and those are painted simply for easy stitching the colors used are just generic enough that one could choose any of several ranges of the hues used one would not have to stick absolutely to the color on the canvas the second detail shows the reflected trees with the lily pads floating on the surface of the water this was the most difficult effect i ve ever worked out the trees had to be easy to stitch but still kind of fuzzy like a reflection the water is smeared looking only because i was going to do it myself and just wanted to cover the canvas if it were a commercial canvas i would have smoothed out the paint so it would look nicer in a shop there was a second canvas a pink one that disappeared monet painted these water lily pieces in several different colors even green this flower pot was inspired by one of the green paintings when i was first back in austin i still wasn t painting needlepoint canvases again yet but started doing decorative accessories for breed and co here and also the national wildflower research center now lady bird s research center for breed s i did a series of french impressionist pots including the saucers which could be lids for enclosing a gift or candies or something of that nature i used those little cheap bottles of acrylic paint the folk art or apple made by plaid enterprises great paint it doesn t require a sealer and i have pots that i painted many years ago that have been outside with plants in them and they still look fresh these were really fun and very fast to produce as they were done almost totally with natural sponges and just smeared onto the pot the little lilies were put there quickly with a worn out paint brush just brush strokes the next pot is from the painting of monet s roses it was extremely simple done all with a wet sponge except for the little roses those are just dabbed on with an old soft brush then another water lilies design adapted to a terra cotta flower pot these are just the simple clay pots you can get at your garden center incidentally if you want to try this yourself do not use the tube acrylics as they dry with a plastic finish and water will seep through the walls of the pot and cause blisters and paint peeling off the bottled paint seems to breathe with the clay so gives no trouble enough is enough for tonight it s time for tea and a good movie this last pot i m ashamed to say is a mystery as i cannot remember who the painter was i m inclined to say it s from cezanne as his style with the outlined fruit says so however van gogh s style also shows in the blue pitcher and flowers oh well the arrow is pointing to a place that is a white paint mark not something shiny oops one more this last one is one of my very favorites of the van gogh paintings his flowering almond branch posted by possibilities etc at 11 52 am 7 comments labels design adaptation needlepoint canvas preparation special effects monday january 31 2011 learning practicing creating needlepoint on simple shapes i m still working on the conical topiary trees and also on the bavarian lace but as a lot of background is required and both pieces are green i have to take a break this subject is a result of two things first i have been cruising around on the internet looking at painted canvases and cannot believe some of the things i see there are pieces that are so simple that anyone could put them onto canvas and at rather outrageous prices i think as a designer of painted canvas for so many years i do know why fine hp canvases are very expensive but people need to know that they can do their own simpler small pieces if they are shown how i used to love teaching this actually most of them don t even need to be painted the houndstooth check piece is one i did while experimenting with effects with mosaic stitch and making my own houndstooth larger from the simple little count i developed for it no paint required here but just the symmetric outline of the heart drawn onto the canvas i usually don t paint my ornaments of this sort it s just not necessary naturally getting out these patterns showing on the side bar as e patterns to buy and download yourself sent me spinning off in yet another direction i thought of painting a bare canvas drawn in a shape probably a circle or a heart and doing some scant coverage things on it after painting smearing with a natural sponge in an abstract pattern i had to go dig out my collection of sponges from my pottery making for this so the rest of the story waits for success or failure liz morrow is who told me about this technique if it emerges as i see it in my head it will be great if not oh well i normally do not like scant coverage but in this case it has some possibilies now i m off to find a movie to watch and more green stitching on the tree and then some lace drawing i m showing here several of my cookie cutter ornaments something i developed a number of years ago when i was experimenting with different fibers stitches and techniques and tired of wasting time and canvas with just scraps at least this way i had something i could finish and use later and they are small bright and entertaining and they don t take long to stitch a great relief in among larger projects posted by possibilities etc at 5 07 pm 1 comment labels special effects stitching older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog about me possibilities etc having designed painted canvas stitched taught and written for and about needlepoint for 40 years this fall it s time for me to share and give it away and i take joy in doing it also as michaelangelo said i am still learning view my 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