Summer is here!

Although you wouldn't believe it from the weather!

Anyway, it wasn't that Summer I was on about!
As with the others it is 23 cm square and the quilting as much the same as possible.
I used a bright yellow backing fabric to get the vibrance of summer.

I covered the twigs with green beads, apart from the very end which I put shades of peach beads for flowers.
Then I put multi coloured flowers around the tree and cottages.

There are nearly 1000 beads on this one!
Hope you like it!
I went to the Angles Theatre in Wisbech this morning to hang the silks. I took a few pics of them in situ.
I will post lots of pics for you next week - but first I have a scrapbook to finish..........

Autumn

As promised yesterday, here are the pics of the third silk in the set, Autumn. As with the others it is 23 cm square.

And as you can probably see by now, I have tried to keep the quilting as much the same as possible on them all. I used a rust coloured backing fabric to get the warm glow of autumn. I used a variety of gold, brown, root beer and irridescant amber for the leaves. I left quite a lot of the twigs bare to try to get the effect of the leaves falling off.

Then I put some dotted about as if falling off the tree. And loads on the grass. There are about 300 beads on this one.

Winter.

I have finished Winter. It is mounted and backed and here are the pics to prove it! Again, it is 23cm square with relatively simple stitching and beading.

I used white fabric behind the silk to give the colours a washed out feel. And irridescant clear beads for snow.

With just a few snowflakes to finish it off. There are over 600 beads on this one and over 400 on Spring.

Spring.

While the weather may not know it, it is Spring! And here is the first of my Four Seasons - Spring. It is only small, 23 cm square, which means the beading has to be kept relatively simple. The fabric behind the silk is a sort of minty/limey green. Nice and bright to convey the freshness of spring.

I embroidered the twigs on the tree, attaching the leaves as I went. I used the thread double to make it stand out and two different coloured green beads.

I then used one of the colours from the tree and yellow beads to make primroses. I finished Winter last night but that needs mounting before I take any pictures. I can do that this afternoon while waiting for the Tesco delivery!