Violets and Butterflies, Needle Painting

I greatly enjoy the Trish Burr’s kits, especially the fabric she uses such that I added two butterflies onto this piece so I could do a bit more stitching on the fabric.

Stitched design area is about 6 inch square.

Stitches used are satin and long/short with some buttonhole stitching on the body of the left butterfly.

For the two photos directly below, on the left my stitched piece, on the right Ms. Burr’s.

I greatly enjoy the Trish Burr’s kits, especially the fabric she uses such that I added two butterflies onto this piece so I could do a bit more stitching on the fabric.

While I was working this piece I happened upon a posted photo of a lovely embroidered wild flower garden. The stitcher wrote of having worked her way through several books by Helen Stevens. A few hours spent that week viewing Ms. Stevens’ website and other posted embroidered pieces of her work, I decided to view books of her’s offered on Amazon and I choose one called Embroidered Butterflies and another on flowers. Both books have lots of info, I started, trying to read through the Butterfly Book, but too much info. I choose to select three “learning facts” from a chapter and apply a few at a time like:

1. Dorsal and ventral wings usually have different patterns.

2. Head, thorax, abdomen are three separate sections.

3. Slim dark border around Dalmatian Dog Spots on wings (see the left butterfly wings).

butterfly stamp

butterfly stamp

violets, trish burr

violets, trish burr