Lesson Three

There is nothing like a little pressure to get you going!  I have down loaded lesson four before I started lesson three.  So, lesson three has had my full concentration today and being Sunday I have been able to give it my undivided attention.

In my last post I talked about moving onto another design but overnight I have had another think about that.  I think it will be a good intellectual exercise to keep with that same theme.  To that end I have investigated rock pools, not only here in Australia but around the world, and I find that they are fascinating  for many people not just me.

Thy first images I found were the rock pools of my youth living in Sydney.  My grandparents had a house in the Eastern suburbs near to the surf beach and those old pools were wonderful.  You would hold hang onto the chain for grim death as the surf rolled over you.  So exciting.  Its great to see that they have been discovered again.

Then there was Carnavon George , which is a Jurassic Park out in the middle of the dessert.  I sat by this pool early one morning and watched a family of platypus fishing.  It was the first and last time I have ever seen platypus in the wild.

But these images, though very nostalgic, don't lend themselves to embroidery.  So after going through countless  CD's of old pics, some of which I took and some I think I saved from the net because I liked them, I selected these.  Then I played around with colour and shape.

I then went back into some really old photos and thought that I might be able to make something out of this.

But then decided  to return to the original photo  that I had used as the inspiration for my  first piece .  I  selected one section of the  design  and  then experimented  with line and colour.

My next step is to preview stitches.  I think that I will keep to the pink purple colours.  I do love some of the other ideas so will keep those for the future.