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The Stitched Landscape
An Embroidery Field Guide To The Textures, Colors, And Lines Of The Natural World
Anna Hultin(0)
About
Observe and embroider the natural world with this inspiring guide to nature journaling with a needle and thread.
Transform your appreciation of nature into unique works of art by stitching embroidered landscapes! Artist Anna Hultin's step-by-step projects blend traditional embroidery skills with experimental techniques that draw inspiration from the lines, patterns, and textures of the natural world. Learn how to embroider flowers, plants, and trees using a few basic stitches, discover new techniques for a variety of non-traditional materials and methods like painting on fabric with watercolors, collaging with fabrics to create depth, and stitching with raw wool, and learn how to compose these elements into an original scene based on your own nature observations. Anna Hultin is the artist and educator behind Olander Co Embroidery. Hultin uses needle and thread to create contemporary embroideries that explore the often overlooked beauty of the subtle textures and colors of the Colorado landscape. She lives with her family in Loveland, Colorado. Table of Contents
Author's Preface
Introduction
● How to use this book :
○ Readers will be able to create a one of a kind landscape embroidery inspired by their own observations
○ This book is written in the same way that I developed my embroidery: starting small and working towards a larger landscape. Within these pages we will work like an artist, developing our foreground, middleground, and background. We begin with focusing on stitching one plant at a time while learning embroidery basics. Through the process our embroidery skills will grow, and we will experiment with new processes and materials. Eventually we will be able to stitch an entire landscape with multiple plants, textures, colors, and embroidery techniques.
● Studio Practice
○ Describe the ebb and flow of working in my studio, to working on my couch, to working out on the land incorporating the idea of grounding within my work
○ Goal of creating a landscape that is both abstract and still grounded in reality
Chapter 1: Materials
● Fabric
● Needles
● Felt
● Hoops
● Thread
● Scissors/snips
● Water soluble markers
● Watercolor and gouache
● Brushes
● Roving
● Tulle
● Sketchbooks
● Material storage and set up
Chapter 2: Getting Started
● Getting set up to stitch
○ Hooping your fabric
○ Threading your needle
○ Drawing on the fabric
○ Choosing your color palette
● Basic embroidery stitches
○ Backstitch
○ Satin stitch
○ French knot
Chapter 3: Embroidering single flowers, plants, trees (Creating a Foreground)
● How to stitch the parts of flowers, plants, trees, grasses, textures, etc.
○ actual patterns/tutorials
○ a guide to create your own design through observing
■ ie: a satin stitch is used for petals, french knot for the stamen in most flowers
○ Explanation that these elements are used to create movement in the composition when used in a larger landscape context
● Land and Studio Connection ○ At home
■ Had my first baby. Wanted to step away from the gallery world and focus on a simple, age old, craft
○ In the Studio
■ Early days of studio practice. Needed to meditate on a single plant or tree while keeping my hands busy/mind still
○ On the Land
■ In the summer the garden is overflowing with flowers, colors, plants, textures. It's almost too much to take in all at once so instead, let's sit down and study one plant at a time.
Chapter 4: Creating a Ground (Creating a Middleground)
● Techniques that create a ground for your plants
○ Watercolor
How to paint on fabric
Stitching on top of watercolor
○ stitching grass
■ "messy" satin stitch
■ choosing colors to create depth
○ Wool roving
■ a grass
Transform your appreciation of nature into unique works of art by stitching embroidered landscapes! Artist Anna Hultin's step-by-step projects blend traditional embroidery skills with experimental techniques that draw inspiration from the lines, patterns, and textures of the natural world. Learn how to embroider flowers, plants, and trees using a few basic stitches, discover new techniques for a variety of non-traditional materials and methods like painting on fabric with watercolors, collaging with fabrics to create depth, and stitching with raw wool, and learn how to compose these elements into an original scene based on your own nature observations. Anna Hultin is the artist and educator behind Olander Co Embroidery. Hultin uses needle and thread to create contemporary embroideries that explore the often overlooked beauty of the subtle textures and colors of the Colorado landscape. She lives with her family in Loveland, Colorado. Table of Contents
Author's Preface
Introduction
● How to use this book :
○ Readers will be able to create a one of a kind landscape embroidery inspired by their own observations
○ This book is written in the same way that I developed my embroidery: starting small and working towards a larger landscape. Within these pages we will work like an artist, developing our foreground, middleground, and background. We begin with focusing on stitching one plant at a time while learning embroidery basics. Through the process our embroidery skills will grow, and we will experiment with new processes and materials. Eventually we will be able to stitch an entire landscape with multiple plants, textures, colors, and embroidery techniques.
● Studio Practice
○ Describe the ebb and flow of working in my studio, to working on my couch, to working out on the land incorporating the idea of grounding within my work
○ Goal of creating a landscape that is both abstract and still grounded in reality
Chapter 1: Materials
● Fabric
● Needles
● Felt
● Hoops
● Thread
● Scissors/snips
● Water soluble markers
● Watercolor and gouache
● Brushes
● Roving
● Tulle
● Sketchbooks
● Material storage and set up
Chapter 2: Getting Started
● Getting set up to stitch
○ Hooping your fabric
○ Threading your needle
○ Drawing on the fabric
○ Choosing your color palette
● Basic embroidery stitches
○ Backstitch
○ Satin stitch
○ French knot
Chapter 3: Embroidering single flowers, plants, trees (Creating a Foreground)
● How to stitch the parts of flowers, plants, trees, grasses, textures, etc.
○ actual patterns/tutorials
○ a guide to create your own design through observing
■ ie: a satin stitch is used for petals, french knot for the stamen in most flowers
○ Explanation that these elements are used to create movement in the composition when used in a larger landscape context
● Land and Studio Connection ○ At home
■ Had my first baby. Wanted to step away from the gallery world and focus on a simple, age old, craft
○ In the Studio
■ Early days of studio practice. Needed to meditate on a single plant or tree while keeping my hands busy/mind still
○ On the Land
■ In the summer the garden is overflowing with flowers, colors, plants, textures. It's almost too much to take in all at once so instead, let's sit down and study one plant at a time.
Chapter 4: Creating a Ground (Creating a Middleground)
● Techniques that create a ground for your plants
○ Watercolor
How to paint on fabric
Stitching on top of watercolor
○ stitching grass
■ "messy" satin stitch
■ choosing colors to create depth
○ Wool roving
■ a grass