Well, the weather here in Philly has been a bit gloomy and cool with lots of rain. In honor of my vacation last Feb. with my gal pals, I have begun working on this little piece. I started with a foundation of hand painted cotton, backed it with stabilizer and machine stitched some fancy metallic stitches on my Bernina 830. These stitches peek through my hand stitching giving it a bit of mystery. There is also some hand painted cheese cloth and silk roving. Look for more soon....

Great Class

This past weekend I finished teaching a basic embroidery class thru Main Line School Night in suburban Philly. What a great bunch of ladies. They were fearless! We started out using DMC floss and a few basic stitches. They caught on so quickly that I felt they were ready to explore working with silk ribbon which really was not a part of the class. Their work was lovely and they were so enthusiastic that we are forming our own Guild. If you have any interest in joining us please let me know. We will meet on Saturday May 15 to discuss times and days.

New Camera

Hi everyone. Well I got a new camera and it has taken me this long to figure out how to use it. Ok, there were a few other things I have been working on. One of them is this "Ode to the Carib" I think the Angelina fibers are reflecting too much light in the photo. I'll try to work that out in the future. This piece is very heavily beaded. The base is silk dupioni. I free motioned some yummy fibers and then beaded . I think I will wrap this around a little canvas and frame it.

This past weekend I taught a hand embroidery class and a needle felting class. I'll have more on this next time.

Mucha print collage

I recently found these fabric panels with Gustav Mucha ladies on them. They are very small, only 2-4". I choose Lonni Rossi fabric in the same basic color family, backed the fabric with a stabilizer, and satin stitched around. I will embellish it this week and let you have a look when I'm further along.

Welcome one and all!!

Just got back from a sunny vacation in USVI where I was unable to blog due to this website being in Spanish. French, German or Italian I could have managed but not Spanish. So here I am with a mini tutorial for you.

The image you see here is from my Hubble Space Telescope Series. This has a black velvet background to which I added Angelina fibers, silk roving, and thread. The center shape is silk dupioni which has been heavily beaded.

If you live in the Philadelphia, PA area and would like a class on this, I'm happy to teach you or your group. Speaking of teaching, I have my beginning embroidery class starting Saturday, April 10 and 17 in Radnor, PA. Since these classes are getting full, I will offer afternoon and evening classes in April if Saturdays are a problem.

Remember to create something this week that brings you joy.

walk in beauty,

Julie

Thanks Lisa!!

In my very first blog posting about my new updated web site, let me take a moment to thank my BFF Lisa for all her hard work. I'm not the computer idiot I was a year ago but I still have a ways to go to catch up with normal folk.