Sorry to have missed posting last week. To be honest I’ve been a bit depressed about my recent designs, mostly because the colours tend towards the dark and gloomy. I know why that is – Aberdeenshire in winter just about defines dark and gloomy (except when it’s snowing, which it is now) And because I always draw what’s around me, everything I do now inevitably takes on the colours of an Aberdeenshire late winter. Oh well, there’s no point in trying to fight it, so here’s the next in the Camouflage series.
The camouflaged deer
This deer was trying to blend in to the leafless trees and tall grass down the hill from the house, pretending that he wasn’t really there, and actually doing a pretty good job of it. Technically it was an easy design to do – just a background of grass shapes, then the deer appliqueed on top, and then more overstitching over the appliqueed fabric
Now – I’ve been meaning to say for some time that I’m happy to sell many of the designs that I post, even if they’re not listed in the “Designs for Sale” section. The only ones that I can’t sell are commissioned pieces, because of course they properly belong to the person who commissioned them. But I’m happy to pass on most of the others. One reason that I’ve hesitated to do this in the past is that not only are many of these designs very complicated and tricky to stitch out, they also depend on hand-painted fabric for their effect. However I can describe how to paint the fabric, or even send you some fabric that I’ve painted myself. If you’re interested, get in touch and we can discuss it