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Greenery
Posted on Tuesday, October 18 @ 09:07:11 EDT by admin |
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Nature has lots and lots of greens and to make your silk ribbon more beautiful, you need to incorporate lots of them into your stitching.
Here's an example of a spider plant - all just greens in fact.
Use at least 3 or 4 shades of greens; a good choice would
be the Shade Loving Greens assortment. Start by doing a
straight stitch, approximating the foliage of the plant. Use at
least 3 colors, alternating the long stitches from a central
point, raying out in all directions. Add several ribbon stitch
leaves over those.
Now using spun silk perle or a 2mm ribbon, backstitch or stem stitch the long hanging greenery and then the "spiders" the same way that you did the main foliage.
Another great example of greenery!
Here we have the graceful curves of underwater
greens.
Use at least two sizes of ribbon here though three
will give more depth to the piece. You will also
have to make the piece larger to accomodate
three sizes of ribbon.
Use the largest size and stitch your base stems in
stem stitch, back stitch or even fern stitch. You
want these to be heavy because they're the focus.
Then straight stitch or ribbon stitch the secondary
foliage with the next smaller size of ribbon. If the
piece you're creating is large enough to
accomodate another size of ribbon, use the next
size down to add small straight or loop stitches on
top of the secondary foliage. Otherwise add a
few random loop stitches with the smaller size of
the two you are using.
Although not strictly just greens, many plants like this example have very large leaves and very small amounts of color.
For a flower like this use three sizes of ribbon with the two largest being related greens and the smallest being a flower color. Ribbon stitch leaves using the largest green ribbon and then add a few more leaves the same way using the next smaller size, in a related green. Finally add a few loop stitch flowers in the smallest size ribbon.
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