12.19.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 7:00 am by deRomilly
I found this wonderful Seascape via Pinterest (which is a great site. I pin a lot of my favorite embroidery photo finds there, so if you want a fix on a day other than Monday, this is the place to look!).
Anyway. Sophie Gelfi is an amazing textile artist, mosaic creator and scrapbooker. I don’t know exactly where she is from, but it’s one of the French-speaking countries! 
(I couldn’t find an “about” page on her site, but she writes in French.)
I started at the seascape page, but found myself clicking images almost obsessively because everything was so pretty! Go. Look. Enjoy.
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12.12.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Back in 2008, Karen at kcEnamels took part in a bead journal project. This was April’s entry. I’m in love with the purple elephant.
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08.01.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 7:00 am by deRomilly
I was browsing blogs Sunday and found this wonderful vintage purse (and a crewelwork screen below it). It really is amazing what we can find in little shops around our own towns!
If you enjoy quilting or other textile arts, the rest of her blog is also a wonderful read…
I highly recommend sliding into your local antique or junk shop. You might find a treasure like my poppies or the purse above…
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09.08.09
Posted in General at 7:00 am by deRomilly
And so little time to play with them!
Just offhand, I can think of bargello, berlin, broderie anglaise, hardanger, mountmellick, stumpwork, cutwork, punto in aria, zardozi, bunka, japanese embroidery, wessex embroidery, counted cross stitch, band samplers of every ilk, canvaswork, goldwork, shisha, macramé, blackwork, or nué, crewelwork, schwalmwork, Dresdenwork, Assissiwork, and so on…
My problem, of course, is that when it comes to thread I am a glutton. I want to learn everything and try every technique, no matter how complex. Of course, this isn’t feasible, especially when you realize that I include all thread work in that desire – including knitting, crochet, bobbin lace, needlelace, sprang and any number of other techniques that escape me at the moment, including plain sewing. (I have made a conscious decision NOT to try naålbinding — knitting on TWO needles was confusing enough for me. I don’t really want to try knitting with only one, however historical it is.
There isn’t, of course, enough time in the day to explore everything I want tot do. I try not to let that stall me, and just keep going. I do find myself back at three in particular that I love: cross stitch, silk shading, and crewelwork. I’m sentimental, and these are the three that my mother and grandmother taught me. Somewhere I still have my first cross stitch sampler — the one that took me four years to finish because I kept getting bored. When I find it I’ll post it. I have some sort of idea of charting it (it was stamped on cheap muslin) and doing it again in my current ability level and then framing them side by side. I think it would be cool. Will I make the time? Who knows.
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02.23.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:00 am by deRomilly
I have put several needleworked/embroidered pins up on my Etsy shop. The original intention was to get them up early enough to be available for the holidays. Unfortunately, life really intervened! I thought you might like a few details of my thought process on these -
The first three are embroidered beadwork. The purple ones were created a couple years ago as I bean playing with found objects. The main purple focal point cabochons are rescued from a vintage pair of earrings. For earrings (posts, no less!!) they are huge. but re-purposed into a brooch for someone’s jacket they work beautifully.
The cameo at the center of the white piece was a gift from an artist friend years ago that has been looking for a home ever since. I like how it fits here. The surrounding beadwork on all three of these grew organically, which is a very different method from the very structured way I usually work embroidery. Mostly I just added beads until encrusted. With the asymmetric purple pin I spent a lot of time forcing myself to keep it asymmetric, because my personality always leans me toward perfect symmetrical balance; something that can become boring over the long run. I’m working on it!
The off-white and green triangle I’ve decided to keep. It’s more symmetrical, less organic, and more my typical style, and I’ve fallen in love with it.
As a bonus, here are photos of a work in progress – it’s a commission for a local tribal-style dancer and drummer who loves copper and can’t have anything up near her throat – it will sit at the collarbone when I get the band on it. It still needs assembly and then drops or fringe added. I’m inordinately proud of it.
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