Chekamus River Canyon - Day 5

I spent an hour 'sketching' small trees onto netting. These were to be positioned down the distant slope on the right side of the canyon. However, when I went to place them in position I realized I had to deal with the sky...finally. It would have been very difficult to stitch around the tiny trees.

Necessity forced a decision and I went with close, straight lines. This took the rest of the morning.

I placed registration marks with a water erasable pen on the sky to help keep the stitching even and straight and sewed lines about 1/4 in apart. I used the pressure foot to give me the width between the lines.
A spritz with water and the lines disappeared.

As the ends of the lines stopped at the edge of previous stitching I worked the tails through to the back side, combed them in one direction and glued them in place with a strip of stabilizer. This strip will be incorporated with the final stitching.

After a late lunch, I was finally in a position to attach all those trees I had assembled in the morning.

Tomorrow is another day. 😁

Chekamus River Canyon - Day 4

Moved forward by two hill slopes this morning.

The whole picture puts it all in perspective.

I think I"ll shift to the other side for awhile.

Chekamus River Canyon - Day 3

For those keeping track, this is 5 hours of machine work.

The very distant slopes are covered with trees. That was simple but lengthy machine work.

The back illustration shows the volume of stitches in this area

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The green swath down the left side, forest, I worked off the piece in a hoop.

As the size of the thread painting area gets larger the more distortion can occur. Though it may not be

readily visible in the pictures there are many different shades of green being used here. 

The final part for today was comprised of trees in the left hand section that rise above the slope edge and sit in front of the distant hill. It's these 'eruptions' that give life to the work.

My twitch muscles have given out for the day. I'll pick this up again tomorrow.

Chekamus River Canyon - Day 2

The colour blocking is complete and the workspace tidied.

Right side complete

Left side complete

Now I can work the detail into this.
That will take a little more than 2 days.

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Chekamus River Canyon - Day 1

Design and Colour blocking.

After I enlarged the photo to fit my interfacing ( 33x45 ) I started with the sky.
I had a FQ of my own painted fabric that I wanted to use. It embodies the wonderful sunsets in the mountain.

But it was too small, or rather the wrong shape. After some internet research I decided to cut it up.

The sky is Glue tacked. Fast but secure enough for now.

The River, glued, will be covered with stitched gauze, but blue water may poke through..

Then I moved to the very distant features, the rocky out crops and the misty? forest.
These and all the rest will be fused. Some of the pieces will be small. Fusing is the most secure.

Enough for today!