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So many of you proudly share your first embroideries with me, I thought I would show you <i>my</i> first <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/80"><abbr title="Embroidery can be so, so many things. This is the alpha term for most of the decorative needlearts. ‘Embroidery’ just means any kind of decorative stitching, which can include an endless variety of styles. If you make decorative stitches on fabric, you’re embroidering. You can work in any media on any surface in a free-form manner, along a pattern, or simply by repeating a stitch along a hem or cuff, or edge of a tablecloth. There are endless combinations of stitches and possibilities. Sublime Stitching patterns are designed for embroidery but can be used as templates for other kinds of embroidery as well. Other types of embroidery make use of specific tools and materials, and then earn new and unique names. ">embroidery</abbr></a>. Most people seem know that my work in embroidery began with a portrait of my mother (yes, her name is LeJean), and ask me about this piece -so here it is. It was stitched in the summer of 2000, while I was staying with her. With nothing to do one evening, I asked her to teach me to embroider. It was something I had wanted to try for a long time, because I loved the way that it looked and wanted to begin using it for my artwork to experiment with <a href="http://www.jennyhart.net" target="_blank">unusual themes and large portraits</a>. I'd never seen embroidery like that before. But, I didn't know how to do it, and I didn't think I would enjoy it. Ah, the importance of trying new things. A true obsession ensued, aided by a deep need for a soothing activity at a time of great stress. I wanted to get others excited about embroidery too, for the same reason I was! The result is this website you now are perusing.
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Here is the photo of my mom from 1952 that I worked from:
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So many of you proudly share your first embroideries with me, I thought I would show you <i>my</i> first <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/80"><abbr title="Embroidery can be so, so many things. This is the alpha term for most of the decorative needlearts. ‘Embroidery’ just means any kind of decorative stitching, which can include an endless variety of styles. If you make decorative stitches on fabric, you’re embroidering. You can work in any media on any surface in a free-form manner, along a pattern, or simply by repeating a stitch along a hem or cuff, or edge of a tablecloth. There are endless combinations of stitches and possibilities. Sublime Stitching patterns are designed for embroidery but can be used as templates for other kinds of embroidery as well. Other types of embroidery make use of specific tools and materials, and then earn new and unique names. ">embroidery</abbr></a>. Most people seem know that my work in embroidery began with a portrait of my mother (yes, her name is LeJean), and ask me about this piece -so here it is. It was stitched in the summer of 2000, while I was staying with her. With nothing to do one evening, I asked her to teach me to embroider. It was something I had wanted to try for a long time, because I loved the way that it looked and wanted to begin using it for my artwork to experiment with <a href="http://www.jennyhart.net" target="_blank">unusual themes and large portraits</a>. I'd never seen embroidery like that before. But, I didn't know how to do it, and I didn't think I would enjoy it. Ah, the importance of trying new things. A true obsession ensued, aided by a deep need for a soothing activity at a time of great stress. I wanted to get others excited about embroidery too, for the same reason I was! The result is this website you now are perusing.
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Here is the photo of my mom from 1952 that I worked from:
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So many of you proudly share your first embroideries with me, I thought I would show you <i>my</i> first <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/80"><abbr title="Embroidery can be so, so many things. This is the alpha term for most of the decorative needlearts. ‘Embroidery’ just means any kind of decorative stitching, which can include an endless variety of styles. If you make decorative stitches on fabric, you’re embroidering. You can work in any media on any surface in a free-form manner, along a pattern, or simply by repeating a stitch along a hem or cuff, or edge of a tablecloth. There are endless combinations of stitches and possibilities. Sublime Stitching patterns are designed for embroidery but can be used as templates for other kinds of embroidery as well. Other types of embroidery make use of specific tools and materials, and then earn new and unique names. ">embroidery</abbr></a>. Most people seem know that my work in embroidery began with a portrait of my mother (yes, her name is LeJean), and ask me about this piece -so here it is. It was stitched in the summer of 2000, while I was staying with her. With nothing to do one evening, I asked her to teach me to embroider. It was something I had wanted to try for a long time, because I loved the way that it looked and wanted to begin using it for my artwork to experiment with <a href="http://www.jennyhart.net" target="_blank">unusual themes and large portraits</a>. I'd never seen embroidery like that before. But, I didn't know how to do it, and I didn't think I would enjoy it. Ah, the importance of trying new things. A true obsession ensued, aided by a deep need for a soothing activity at a time of great stress. I wanted to get others excited about embroidery too, for the same reason I was! The result is this website you now are perusing.
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Here is the photo of my mom from 1952 that I worked from:
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mum
She is sooo beautiful! I never thought of doing an embroidery of my mum..... i have done a couple of drawings, but they were done with charcoal powder, so they wouldn't translate well to a line type emroidery i don't think...
That is the FIRST stitchery
That is the FIRST stitchery you did?!?!?! dang grrl! That is quite impressive and beautiful!
First embroidery
Such a lovely portraits! I wish I could remember my first embroidery, but I'm sure it was nothing like this, maybe a cross-stitching kit or practice stitches from a book...
Way to go!
Jenny that is fantastic, nevermind that it was your first time out!
I love how you handled the background and you really got her eyes and nose and picked just the lines you needed for her neck and shoulders.
Myself, I don't do anything without a pattern.
And yea for your mom and her recovering!
addie B)
First Time
I really love this piece. I think the first embroidered piece I remember seeing of yours was the appliqued heart and dagger pillow you made. I'm not quite sure where I remember seeing it. Perhaps in a BUST magazine...but not the one where it's lurking in the background of the Boy Du Jour with Sondre Lerche.
Anywhos, I love that pilla.