The first piece I've looked at is this name plate:
This is on the door of the boat. The design is made up of marigolds and forget me nots.
This is my sketchbook page for ideas for this . I 've included photos from around the boat showing the marigold motif.
In most of the page I have done pencil sketches with ideas for stitches to make up the marigolds and forget me nots. I've then lettered each one.
At the bottom of the page I've done a quick sketch of what stitches i plan to do where.
Then i did a small piece of samples to look at how the stitches would actually look.
This is my idea for the main larger marigolds. Its silk ribbon and I have three shades of orange i plan to use.
This is orange perle bullion knot marigold that i plan to use for some of the smaller marigolds
And for the small marigolds I plan to use these. On this you can also see the little beaded forget me nots I am going to - and i think the blue brings the orange up nicely.I will post more photos of this project as it progresses.
2 comments:
Oh, that's a great project! A friend blogged their trip on a narrow boat last year and I thought it was so cool! I love the silk ribbon flower. It's just gorgeous. The little blue beaded fmn will be perfect!
Narrowboats are just amazing, aren't they? I love them too. We know someone down in Cambridge who actually lives on one! Don't think I could be quite that 'no frills', but lunch on their boat is quite an experience.=)
Looking forward to seeing more progress on this interesting project and I hope you manage to get some work sorted out soon. My dh has work instability a lot as well as he has his own business, which is rather new, and so he's always on the look-out for the next client and it can feel very tense. Thankfully, he's been well looked after by a couple of good clients and I've raked in a bit of late too.
I did a lot of agency work in my early 20s and found that, once you get in with one or two of them, you'll have work almost constantly, but getting to that point takes a lot of 'phone calls and reminders. I suppose you're already au fait with it all, but calling every day is a good plan, (if a pain in the bum....!!)
Bon courage!=)
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