Week's Fun

Here's what I did last week: stitch-a-bit and paint-a-bit-more. What did I stitch?
Well, I began work on the April HEX LABS from StitchMAP, and chose the Umbrella Design to embroider. Here's my progress so far:

I made an error placing my second rose, so I ad-libbed a bit on the placement of the 'daisies' made with the twisted detached chain stitch.
I used some of the wonderful, variegated ( chenille?) thread Monika sent me.

I think my spider's web flowers might be a little small, but there's flower size variation in nature, so I'm leaving them as is.

This different angle shows the flowers a bit better. Now I have leaves to add, and baby's breath to bead, and I'm almost finished......












 And what did I paint? I bought a gelli plate (a gel printing plate) and a brayer, and I was having fun trying out textures, colours, and stencils on paper. One of these days, when I sort of have an idea how to get more pleasing results, I may attempt to print these on fabric. That should be fun!
Here's just a few of my experiments with the gelli plate:

 no, that's not blurry..........that's the effect of many layers of colour, and this rather reminds me of crocodile skin

swirly fun

Using a lace piece as a resist
maybe it would look better with some ink here and there to enhance the pattern. I think a solid colour would have shown the lace design better, too.  So much new fun stuff to learn.

This gerbera daisy is growing in my bow window, and seems to really like that spot! Notice anything as you look out the window? No snow! We had some this morning, but most has melted.
Spring!

Well, that's all I have to show. Where did the week go?
Hope you had lots of creative time this week.
Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter!


Thanks for visiting.
Hugs from Suz