Walking the Nags Head Wood Preserve: Textures
For the 2022 Nags Head artist book, I explored a walk through the Nags Head Wood Preserve. It is a lovely area of maritime forest bordered by the Albemarle Sound. Here, too, I worked on exploring textures between the maritime forest, the salt marshes, and the sound shore. As with the set of samples dedicated to the Albemarle Sound Textures, these 6 x 6 inch samples were inspired by the prompt of Master Practitioner Course. For this project, I tried to see what happened if I used commercial batiks.
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Machine Lace over Silk Hankie
It was a play with machine lace layered on top of a bit of silk hankie and painted cheesecloth.
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Chenille over Needle-Punched Batiks
I had made a sample of chenille to create texture; I framed it with needle-punched batiks and wool roving that I then free-motion quilted. The beads add a bit more texture.
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Free-Motion Machine Embroidery
I wondered what would happen if I free-motion embroidered some motifs. The branch and fungi had an organza underlay, the ones at the bottom were stitched over painted cheesecloth and wool roving.
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Distressed Lutradur
This was part of the samples about the shore which has a beach strewn with roots and other debris. It started with a piece of Lutradur that I ran through the inkjet printer. I free-motion quilted circles, then distressed it. To create transitions, I added cheesecloth, and for a focus point, I chose an ornament made of stitch and paint over soluble paper.
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Photograph and Free-Motion Machine Embroidery
I manipulated a photograph and printed it on cotton. After free-motion quilting it, I overlaid it with a root that was free-motion embroidered over organza and cut out. I added a bit of machine lace and painted cheesecloth.
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Painted Stitching
A piece of muslin with decorative stitches, painted with acrylics, then embellished with hand embroidery and a bit of painted cheesecloth for texture.