Mother's Tank Top4

Update on last week's entry.

 "Leaves" added. There's two types. The first is a folded triangle, with two variations. The others are a cross between straight stitch and bullion knots (since it's a straight stitch with some twists in it).

Mother's Tank Top3

Update on last week's entry.

 

Flowers have been more or less finalized.

The peach roses are simple straight stitches that I let the ribbon twist when I was stitching to give them more dimension. The red rose tops are the common folded rose. Just about any search for ribbon rose brings up a tutorial. As for the buds, they are just a simple wrap. I'm questioning if I want the lily at the top because the ribbon is too wide to easily go through the fabric and I'm having trouble creating lily-like petals. Maybe call it a tulip?... ;P.

Mother's Tank Top2

Update on last week's entry.

Similar to the order I drew the sketch, I started with the big flowers:

The red ruffles are going to be the base of two roses (though I haven't decided how to design the top section), the pink rose is just a gather-stitched rose (take a length of ribbon, gather stitch, and pull tight) and the peach ones are spider web roses (five thread lines radiating from a center with a ribbon woven around it).

Mother's Tank Top

Mother's day is just around the corner and instead of flowers that will droop in a few days and die, I decided to make some flowers bloom on one of my mom's tank tops with ribbons (something which I'm still learning how-to do). Ribbon embroidery, also referred to as ribbonry, uses ribbons to create pictures, usually flowers and leaves, but can also create decorative stitches. Something similar is shaping 3D flowers out of ribbon, similar to silk flowers used in flower arrangements. From there, one could also dabble in ribbonpoint (cross-stitching using ribbons, Basic Ribbonpoint Technique by Patricia Mabry) or a step further, silk paper (Take Silk: A Guide to Silk Paper for the Creative Fibre Artist by Judith Pinnell). [Both books found at my library.]

I wanted a diagonal line that opened as it went up. Using various roses, I drew the big ones first. From there, to fill in, I added the medium and smaller roses. The lily in the upper-left started as a rose but liking something a bit more "open," I decided on a lily. We'll see about that because that does take away from the theme of roses...

Concept sketch:




From there, I wanted to see what colors to use and sketched this:

Well, that's the easy part… Stay tuned for more details as I work on it. And since I won't be going home until my sister graduates (Sat, June 5), I have a bit of extra time. ;). See you next week!