Working (ever so slowly) on a new "Do Not" embroidery.
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| I like to sit on my bed and stitch. |
This is a created design, not an actual, real life "Prohibited" symbol. I combined the classic red prohibition symbol -- rendered in the red, glossy, thick, brick-like back stitch that I love -- with a slick snowflake design that I found and altered from an out-of-print Japanese graphics book given to me by my fiber arts friend, Naomi, who we call "yarn whisperer."
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| Little Hans, 2011. An altered prohibition sign. (It is actually a call to wear a face mask in the lab, but I changed it into a riot cop siluette.) |
I like altering and changing the meaning of hazard symbols. I also like stitching them as is.
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| All in six-strand DMC 321 and 310 on white Kona cotton. |
This is for the Phat Quarter Swap on the MrXStitch. The theme of the swap was Spring. And as I was sketching for this piece it kind of morphed into something new... a warning symbol NOT to flake on me. I'm done with flakey people.
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| Detail of brick back stitch. |
The piece is for talented Lisa, who promised not to look at my blog while this is a WIP so that she can have a surprise when it arrives at her little studio in Northern California.
Now, off to the corporate salt mines.