Sunday, August 19, 2012

Rock carvings: A second glimpse ...

... of the rock carving 'comic strip', this picture showing Regin's horse, holding the treasure of the dragon Fafne on its back.

It takes quite a bit of concentration embroidering these small motifs on the sewing machine - this horse, for example, is only about 8 x 5 cm/3 x 2 ", and Sigurd himself (in my latest posting), was even smaller than that.



So I'm regarding this first approach as a kind of sketch, to get more acquainted with the motifs - I'm thinking of enlarging it further later on, maybe embroidering it by hand next time or even painting it on a wall ...

But I'm very happy to finally having started exercising the free motion machine embroidery - there are so many possibilites in that technique - and it's great fun!

(German summary: Hier kommt das zweite Motiv der Felsenritzung, und die Bilderchen erfordern schon einiges an Konzentration beim Nähen, weil sie so klein sind, dieses etwa 8 x 5 cm. Vielleicht werde ich die Vorlage später weiter vergrößern - ich denke da an einen handgestickten Wandbehang oder vielleicht an eine Wandmalerei ...)

6 comments:

Elizabeth said...

The horse looks stunning Anneli, good job.

So you are also thinking of painting it on a wall, hmm, great idea!!!!

Angela said...

beautiful stitching, and so tiny too

Anneli/Bockfilz said...

Thank you, dear friends! Glad to have your encouraging comments :-)!

kristin said...

i really love this series you're working on

Sara said...

Ich liebe dies!!! wie geht s?

Anneli/Bockfilz said...

Thank you for your nice comments, dear Kristin and Sara - glad you enjoy my series!