One thing she said she liked was mystical creatures, wizards and dragons and that sort of thing. I love dragons so made that my first theme. I had a serious, even scary looking, dragon in mind but some google image searches (which I never tire of) yielded a simple cartoon dragon drawing that I was really taken with. I reached into my bag of vintage fabric samples and pulled out this striped and flowers piece. I almost chickened out on the fabric, not sure if it would just look too goofy or busy, but in the end just went for it.
I modified the dragon to make him holding a flower and tried to make it similar to one from the fabric.
In the end I am in love with this piece and it was hard to let go of it. The fabric rocks and the flower is adorable, if I do say so myself.
Definitely encouraging me to do more embroidery.
For a second piece I went back and forth on a few ideas. I almost did a felted hoop of an iguana but in the end couldn't resist a geeky Star Trek cross stitch. My partner said she loves the borg, and I thought a borg cross stitch could be just the thing. I worked off a picture of Picard as Locutus. My developing style is not to do completely solid coverage, and I didn't have two different grays so I decided to not stitch the skin but rather add a little bit of paint.
It was a good experiement and I think the paint works well. The end result is cool but I feel like there's something magical missing, maybe the overall piece needed to be darker. Still, you will be assimilated. :)
My partner says she loves them both and agrees that geeky is the way to go with hooplas.
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