Beach textiles

gallery of freehand machine embroidered pictures by UK textile artist Alison Holt using silk painting and freehand machine embroidery

Besides working on circle quilts I also have my aerial view quilts for Voyage. This is the latest one which I completed yesterday. I called it 'Shoreline'. For the sand I used a piece of rust dyed fabric, for the water different hand dyed blues. Small strips of scrim are stitched down with seed beads and to complete it I added a number of buttons on it. Some time ago I had bought a set of beads in the shape of shells and starfish. They came with a shank, so I had to cut that off and than…

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Treasures from the Sea June embroiders seashells by the seashore. Designed and embroidered by: June DudleySize: 16" x 19" Wall Embroidery Designs: NB758_48, Seaside Treasures from OESD, embroideryonline.com. Appears in Quilting & Embroidery Spring '11.