Last night I completed “The Star Money”, a flurry of beads and stitching. This piece is based on the Grimm’s fairy Tale of the same name. The piece measures 17 inches by 17 inches. I have shared a few more details on this piece over at my other blog.
Artwork by Debra Hunter
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
www.thehuntergroup.ca
I feel like I have been neglecting this blog a little bit, but I have been spending my normal blogging time beading and stitching. Most of the past week I have focused on beading. I think glitzy, sparkling, beaded stars are just perfect for a fairy tale themed piece.
Here are a few detail pictures, as you can tell this piece is all about fun.
Hundreds upon hundreds of tiny seed beads. My goal is to have all the beading done by this evening.
Artwork by Debra Hunter
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
www.thehuntergroup.ca
Late night stitching on the latest piece, while binge watching “Suits” on Netflicks, while waiting for child #3 to get to sleep.
I guess statistically it is quite good that 80% of our children are asleep, but still it IS late.
The latest piece is a bit of a folly. I had recently read about the idea of using fairy tales as a theme for art pieces. It caught my interest as years ago I had played around with nursery rhymes as a theme. So I cracked open a copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales (oddly it took me less than 3 minutes to find it in this house filled with books), flicked through a couple of stories, then came across one called “The Star-Money”. This one I could see done in naturally dyed silk, stitching and beading.
For several evenings I have been stitching late into the night…..or early morning as it were on Friday (5 am!)…..yeah, that hurt the next day.
I am trying to get through the stitching portion so that I can tuck into the fun part of beading. The stitching gives the foundation, adding bling is fun. I have discovered I need to do the beading near the end of the piece due to challenges with stretching the piece in the frame. Hopefully just a few more days of stitching and then on to the fun stuff.
For more 1 Day 1 World Projects check out this blog by Northwest Frame of Mind.
artwork by Debra Hunter
www.thehuntergroup.ca
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